The Canadian Horticulturist. 



THE MEETING AT PETERBORO' 



CONSIDERABLE amount of very valuable matter 

 for our report was elicited at the meeting in Peter- 

 boro'. True, the local attendance was compara- 

 tively small, but those who were present showed 

 a deep interest in our work. The name of Mr 

 E. B. Edwards, President of the Peterboro' 

 Association, deserves especial mention, as 

 one who took the deepest interest in our 

 work, and rendered every assistance in his 

 power to make our meeting a success. 



The Kieffer Pear, — This variety was 

 spoken of by Mr. Pettit, as succeeding 

 better in the West than in Ontario, but some samples 

 shown by Ontario at the World's Fair were remarkably 

 fine. Mr. Boulter, of Picton, said that the common 

 notion that it was excellent for canning was not borne 

 out in his experience, for it has one fault ; it won't stand up through the boiling. 

 Mr. A. M. Smith' said he had sold his crop to the canning factory at Grimsby 

 who wanted all they could get. Quite a difference of opinion was also expressed 

 regarding its quality, and all this goes to show how valuable to us all will be 

 properly conducted experimental work. 



Spraying for Insects and Fungi is another important line of experimental 

 work, and many questions are yet unsettled. Prof. Hutt, the newly appointed 

 Horticulturist at Guelph Agricultural College, said he had been visiting the 

 fruit farms of Messrs. Maxwell Bros., at Geneva, N, Y., and though they have 

 large plum orchards they do not spray, but capture and cremate the curculio in 

 the old-fashioned way. The curculio and stung fruit are gathered in a sheet ten 

 or twelve feet in diameter, made like an inverted umbrella, and supported on a 

 light two wheeled barrow. A slit in the sheet, opposite the handles allows the 

 tree to enter to the centre. The limbs are jarred with a padded bumper, and 

 everything on the sheet rolls into a tin drawer at the bottom." 



Mr. Geo. Cline, of Winona, Ontario, said he had been spraying his plum 

 orchard with Paris green for about twelve years past, and has thereby succeeded 

 in procuring a fair crop almost every year. In parts where he omitted 

 spraying, the crop had failed. 



Mr. W. M. Orr, of Stoney Creek, reported having sprayed his Flemish 

 Beauty pear trees with Bordeaux mixture for the scab, and had failed to rid 

 them of the evil, and felt discouraged. 



Prof. Craig called attention to samples of the same apple grown without 



