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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



The Nova Scotia School of Horticulture 

 had 69 students last year. The expenses of 

 the school were $1,843.47. 



Cherry Curculio. — This insect is often 

 very injurious to the cherry crop, and must 

 be foug^ht persistently with Paris green. 

 Three ounces to forty gallons of water is 

 the usual amount, and two or three times 

 that quantity of lime should be added to 

 prevent injury to the foliage, and help to 

 hold the Paris green to the same. 



The Canker Worm has been exceedingly 

 troublesome in many of our apple orchards 

 this spring, especially on Spy trees. The in- 

 fested trees should be early sprayed with Paris 

 green, 4 to 6 ounces with the same of lime 

 to 50 gallons of water. The lime should be 

 reduced to milky consistency and run 

 through a wire sieve to avoid clogging the 

 nozzles. When the worm is well grown 



Paris green is said to be less effective, and 

 Bowker's arsenic lead, 3 ounces to 50 

 gallons of water, is an effective remedy. The 

 Ohio Experimental Station says this mixture 

 does not injure the foliage. It is milky 

 white in appearance, as thin as water, and 

 adheres for weeks. It may be procured 

 from the Bowker Chemical Works, Boston. 



Keeping Winter Apples in Waxed Paper 

 — Youngers, of the Nebraska H. S., has 

 reported on his experiments under this head. 

 In f^all of 1897, about November ist, all 

 available varieties were put in cold storage, 

 each apple wrapped first in a sheet of waxed 

 paper — 9x12 inches for the smaller and I2x 

 12 for the larger ones. Another cover of 

 newspaper was added, and then all packed 

 tightly in barrels and put in cold storage 

 with temperature at 36°. A few were stored 

 in barrels without wrapping. On June ist, 

 1898, the first examination was made, and 



