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master mind guiding and developing the scheme for horticultural training, till 

 the inception of the school is an established fact. During the few years Mr. 

 Bigelow has sat as President, the Association has increased from less than one 

 hundred to more than five hundred members, and the honored institution has 

 assumed a vigor and enero;y that bids fair for increased usefulness, and it is the 

 expressed hope of many members that the subject of this sketch may long fill 

 the Presidential chair. : ■ ♦ 



THE APPLE LEAF BUCCULATRIX. 



At the meeting of the Brant Hor- 

 ticultural Society at Paris, a fruit 

 farmer, Mr. John McRuer, of Ayr, 

 showed isome twigs from his apple 

 trees covered with small, elongated 

 chrysalids. The larva, he said, was 

 so numerous in his orchard, that 

 they did >?6ry much damage. On 

 forwarding some samples to Prof. 

 Jas. Fletcher, he replies as follows : 



'•The apple twigs enclosed in 

 your letter, which had been handed Fig. 425. 



to you at the meeting of* the Brant Fruit Growers' Association in Paris, are 

 infested with the apple leaf Bucculatrix, Bucculatrix pomifoliella. The white 

 objects on the twigs are the cocoons of the second brood. The perfect form of 

 this insect is a beautiful Httle moth, which is figured on page 119 of Saunders' 

 ** Insects Injurious to Ffuits,'-, where the cocoons are also shown upon a twig. 

 The moth appears in. May, and the small caterpillars are occasionally so 

 numerous as to cause considerable injury. There are two broods in the year. 

 Probably the most practical remedy for this insect is spraying the trees, after the 

 flowers have ^fallen in spring, with one pound of Paris green, one pound of 

 freshly slaked lirtie and 200 gallons of water." 



A Big: Apple Story. 



Sir, — I believe you have asked the question, What is the largest cioj) (..t apples you 

 khdW to have been taken from a single tree? and having knowledge of what I think an 

 extraordinary crop, I have for some time intended writing ^'ou regarding it. Mr. Summer- 

 field Douglas^ who is now manager of the Kay Electric Works in Hamilton, but who, ten 

 or twelve years ago when this occurre I, was living on the Douglas homestead, Burlington 

 Plains, lot 3, con. 1, E. Flamboro', will tell you that at that time he had a tree of Maidea 

 Blush which yielded thirty barrels. Although a twenty-six foot ladder was used in pick: 

 ing, A poHion of the crop had to be left on the tree as it Was quite out of reach. There 

 werd twenty-two barrels of tirst-class apples and six barrels of seconds, which, together 

 with the cider apples and those remaining on the tree, would make up the quantity named. 

 Tii6 net proceeds from this crop was between fifty and sixty dollars. 



George E. Fisher, Frttmin^ Ont. 



