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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



FRUIT GROWERS OF WESTERN NEW YORK-I. 



Ppont in fruit Growing— Pruning Evergreens— Co-operative Storage of 



Apples, etc. 





ROBABLY there is not a larger or more enthusiastic 

 meeting of practical fruit growers than the one which 

 takes place every January in the City of Rochester. 

 True, we have four or five times the membership, but as 

 we meet in so many different places we cannot expect 

 such large numbers to attend as if we held all our ses- 

 sions in some centre of fruit culture. 



Mr. W. C. Barry, the able President, gave an ad- 

 mirable opening address, in which he maintained that, 

 notwithstanding the present discouraging outlook for 



fruit growers, there is no good reason why 



farming and fruit growing should not pay 



well, if conducted on correct business 



principles. 



Mr. C. W. Garfield, of Michigan, was 



present, and gave an address on " The Art 



that doth (not) mend Nature," in which 



he condemned the senseless method of 



pruning, by which evergreens are robbed 



of their native grace, and made to assume 



the form of elephants, lions or eagles. 



Such monstrosities he compared to the 



compression of the Chinese woman's foot, 



or of the American woman's ribs, and 



condemned them. Mr. Pierce, of Ohio, 



believed there were cases in which cutting 



back evergreens was advantageous. In 



city lots evergreens could in this way be 



kept within bounds ; the leader may 



be cut out every other year, and when 



new foliage is pushing out each year he 



would pinch out the leading bud — thus forming a thick, close, oblate-shaped 



tree — occupying little ground, and presenting a pleasing aspect. 



Co-operative storage. — Mr. Perkins, of Newark, N. Y., who grows apples 



extensively, drew attention to the fact that Canadian and California apples are 



filling the American markets. He knew also of a Missouri apple orchard yield- 

 ing 16,000 barrels in a single season, and another western orchard yielding 



20,000 barrels, and, unless conditions are changed, how can we market our 



Fig. 426. — VV. C. Barry. 



