April, 191 1 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



97 



Durham Northumberland Fruit 



» Institute 



A most successful series of fruit meetings 

 ive been held in the Counties of Durham 

 id Northumberland. 

 Both afternoon and evening sessions were 

 held which were attended by large numbers 

 of enthusiastic apple growers, who increased 

 the membership of the Northumberland and 

 Durham Apple Growers Association by two 

 hundred and twenty-five new members. 



The Bowmanville meetings, addressed by 

 Mr. Caesar of the O.A.C., on spraying, and 



y Mr. Carey, Dominion Fruit Inspector, 

 on orchard management, were undoubtedly 

 the largest attended cf any of the kind ever 

 held in the district. 



The Newcastle meetings were well attend- 

 ed and many features of apple production 

 were ably discussed by Mr. Lick, Mgr. of 

 the Oshawa Fruit Growers' Association, and 

 Mr. Carey. The varieties of apples recom- 

 meiided for planting are those of high qual- 

 ity, of which the Mcintosh, Snow and Spy 

 are of special value, also the Alexander, 

 Blenheim and Greening are advised, and the 

 Gravenstein and Baldwin where the local 

 conditions are favorable. It is advised that 

 no more Ben Davis or Starks be planted, al- 

 though those who have these two varieties 

 should give them good care, as, nc doubt, 

 good paying prices will be obtained when 

 exported to European markets in the years 

 of scarcity. Our growers are now waking 

 up to the great possibilities cf this industry, 

 and are planting very extensively, and tak- 

 ing Mr. French's orchard survey as a basis. 

 It is a conservative estimate that there are 

 now a million and a half apple trees in 

 these United Counties, and with an acreage 

 greater than that in peaches in Southern 

 Ontario. 



The meetings held at Orono were attended 



by a large and interested audience, and all 

 were benefitted by the able addresses of Mr. 

 Lick and of Prof. Crew of the O.A.C, In 

 pruning a bearing orchard Prof. Crow ad- 

 vised keeping the trees down to a height of 

 fourteen or sixteen feet by removing yearly 

 a few leading branches, being careful to cut 

 at a junction with another limb so the 

 wound would heal readilv; also thinning 

 the out<'r branches to let the sunlight reach 

 the tearing twigs and fruit buds which 

 should be encouraged all through the centre 

 of every tree. By this s.ystem of pruning, 

 spraying, thinning and picking the fruit is 

 easily done, and bv judicious pruning of 

 lower side limbs, cultivation can be carried 

 en as close to each row of trees as desired. 



Successful meetings were also held in Co- 

 bourt;, Trenton, Port Hope, Colborne, Wark- 

 worth and Brighton. The attendance was 

 large and the intere,st shown at all points 

 very gratifying. 



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Vegetable Growers Oppose 

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At the annual meeting of tlie Vegetable 

 Growers Association held in Toronto on 

 March 8, there were members in attendance 

 from branches of the Association at Brant- 

 ford. Dimnville, Chatham, Tecumseh, Sar- 

 nia, London, Stratford, Belleville. Picton, 

 King.ston and Ottawa. 



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 Humber Bay, and seconded by C. H. Weav- 

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"That we, the directors of the Ontario 

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