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formation on best kinds to ship, and how to 

 pack. Barrels with straig-ht staves, or boxes 

 should be used, whereby slackness and 

 bruising- would be avoided. The engineers, 

 who control the temperature on shipboard, 

 do not honestly keep their log books of the 

 temperature. Butter is often put in same 

 hold as fruit. Butter requires 26^ of cold 

 and apples 34 . The fruit becomes chilled, 

 and even frozen, and when landed looks 

 well, but soon rots. Hay also is put in same 

 hold as apples, causing mould. An inspec- 

 tor should be sent with each fruit vessel. 

 Ship but few kinds and in larg-e lots, as 

 California and Nova Scotia do. 



Prof. Waug-h spoke on " Horticulture in 

 Literature." He srave an exhaustive ac- 



count of the subject, embracing all the 

 classical writers, such as Hesiod, Virgil, 

 Pliny, etc., and the best modern writers, 

 such as Fessenden, Cobbett, Henderson, 

 Bailey, etc. He spoke very- hig-hly of our 

 " Horticulturist." 



Prof. Macoun said that spraying should 

 be specially done in years when the crop is 

 small, or when insects are few, for then the 

 rings and eggs of tent caterpillars are smaller 

 and fewer from want of food. 



Extreme cold does not affect insects. 



The plum curculio affects apples in Quebec. 



The remedy for the borer is soap wash in 

 June. 



For the apple maggot, pick up and de- 

 stroy fallen apples. 



SUMMARY OF FRUIT GROWING AT ABBOTSFORD, P. Q. 



fBBOTSFORD is situated at the base 

 oi the Yamaska Mountain in the 

 County of Rouville, P. Q., about 

 "^i^^ forty miles east of Montreal, and for 

 many years has been noted for its fruits both 

 at home and abroad, which thrive in a por- 

 ous, gravelly soil naturally adapted to the 

 apple, on the slopes of the second trap moun- 

 tain east of St. Hilaire. 



No doubt the early settlers brought with 

 them cuttings of their choicest plants and 

 vines, and seeds of their favorite fruits as a 

 nucleus of the family garden and orchard, 

 which are numerous ; numbering many com- 

 mercial orchards containing most of the 

 hardy varieties of the apple, pear, plum, 

 cherry, grape and other small fruits which 

 it is possible to grow in a climate where 

 vegetation is liable to be injured by frost 

 during nine months of the year. 



The first seedling orchard at Abbotsford 

 was planted by one Joel Frizzle, of about 

 one arpant in extent, and it came into bear- 

 ing in 181 2, or earlier. 



The first grafted trees were brought here 



in 1810, by the late Col. O'Dwyer, and con- 

 sisted of three varieties ; the Blue Pearmain, 

 Late Strawbern.- or Foundling, and a Flat 

 Graft, an apple of good quality whose name 

 was lost. These trees were procured from 

 the Spalding nursen.- at Shefford Mountain, 

 the scions of which came formerly from the 

 New England States. 



The Fameuse, Pomme Grise, and Bour- 

 assa, were brought from Montreal in 1826 

 by the late Rev. Joseph Abbott. Grafting 

 was introduced in 1823 by the late Samuel 

 Jackman, and the art of budding in 1846 by 

 the late Rev. Thomas Johnson. 



The first regular commercial nursery was 

 established in 1857 by N. Cotton Fisk, and 

 some others followed on the same lines, 

 when the Abbotsford grown trees were much 

 sought after by planters, and now at the 

 close of the 19th century forms the founda- 

 tion of many a valuable orchard through the 

 Province of Quebec. 



The Fruit Growers' Association of Abbots- 

 ford was organized in December, 1874, and 

 may be styled the pioneer society, as it was 



