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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



December, 1911 



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Ontario's competitors 



The Wednesday evening session was given 

 over to a discu.ssion of fruit growing in oth- 

 er provinces. Mr. A. G. Turney. speaking 

 for Now Brunswick, told of the new interest 

 that is being awakened in orcharding in 

 that province. AVhile there are many varie- 

 ties that they cannot produce, such fancy 

 dessert kinds as Fameuse, Mcintosh, Dudley 

 and King can be grown to perfection. Mr. 

 Macoun. of Ottawa, told of that wonderful 

 fruit producing district — the Annapolis 

 Valley of Nova Scotia. This valley, one 

 hundred miles long and six to eleven miles 

 wide, produces practically all of the fruit in 

 Nova Scotia. Apples, pears, plums, cher- 

 ries and small fruits, and to a limited ex- 

 tent peaches are grown in that valley. In 

 Mr. Macoun's opinion the fruit areas of 

 Nova Scotia would compare favorably with 

 those of any other province in Canada. 



Mr. Norman Jack, of Chateauguay Basin, 

 Que., believes that fruit can be grown in 

 every county of Quebec except two or three 

 in the extreme north. Mcintosh and 

 Fameuse are their favorite varieties. 



Mr. Harold Jones, who had been on a 

 visit to British Columbia, spoke of the 

 fruit districts of that province, stating that 

 British Columbia growers were making 

 great progress, had less insects to compete 

 with than in the East, but that he had come 

 back well satisfied with Ontario. 



DISEASES OF THE PEACH 



Two very serious diseases of the peach, 

 little peach and peach yellows, were dis- 

 cussed by Mr. L. Ceasar. of the O.A.C, He 

 estimated that in Ontario there were fifty 

 thousand trees that should come out this 

 year; that is four per cent of the whole are 

 affected with one or other of these diseases. 

 He believed that we have been exaggerating 

 the danger of the disease spreading from the 

 nurseries. In fighting the disease he re- 

 commended that a good biologist be appoint- 

 ed to spend his summer studying the dis- 

 ease and instructing the inspectors, and in 

 winter in institute work. Inspectors should 

 be appointed by the province, 



Mr. B, D. Van Buren, Assistant Chief 

 of the Bureau of Horticulture, New York 

 .State, told of the work that he had been 

 doing at Niagara-on-the-Lake. Competent 

 inspectors are employed, and all diseased 

 trees are marked and must be destroyed ten 

 days after. Inspectors are paid salaries up 

 to fifteen hundred dollars a year. Before 

 inspection commenced, some of the best 

 growers had lost their entire orchards. This 

 section is not the cleanest in New York 

 State, and in some orchards the loss is less 

 than ,25 per cent annually. 



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Dr. C. H. Riggs, of Toronto, a large 

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 productivity. Cultivation, spraying, thin- 

 ning and pruning are all practised. In 

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 recommended putting on lime sulphur just 

 as thick as it would come out the nozzles. 

 These applications were made after July, 

 and the concentrated lime sulphur used was 

 home boiled. Several of the growers pre- 

 sent believed that, were commercial lime 

 sulphur used, such a strength would burn 

 the foliage, and, therefore, that it would 

 be a good plan to try this experiment first 

 on a small plot. 



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