SUBSCRlPnON PRICE, $1.00 per year, entitling the subacriber to membership ot the Fruit 

 Growers' Association of Ontario and all its privileges, including a copy of its valuable Annual 

 Report, and a share in its annual distribution of plants and trees. 



REMITTANCES by Registered Letter are at our risk. Receipts will be acknowledged upon 

 the address label. 



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Mr. Thos. Harris, of Meaford, who invented the Harris step ladder for 

 fruit picking, says he has also invented a knife for thinning out fruit, and a 

 pruning hook for pruning shrubs and bushes. 



Some Good Grapes. — Prof. G. W. McOver, of the Illinois station, recom- 

 mends the following varieties of grapes, after testing ninety-eight varieties, viz. : — 

 For j?tarkef, black. Concord, Worden and Ives ; red, Delaware and Lindley ; 

 white, Grein's Golden, Elvira, Niagara and Green Mountain. 



Spraying for Plum Rot. — Mr. H. Gormanj of the Kentucky station, 

 reports in favor of the Bordeaux mixture against the brown rot of plums. He 

 applied it on the 9th of June and the 5th of July ; but, of course, we at the 

 north must make due allowance for the difference in season. At the time of 

 gathering, August the 22, although some rotting fruit was observable on both 

 sprayed and unsprayed trees, and much had dropped during the season, yet 

 when the crop from all was weighed, there was a difference of 48 per cent, in 

 (quantity of good fruit, in favor of the sprayed trees. 



The Canadian Fruit Buyers and Exporters Association has issued a 

 circular calling for members, in order to further their objects. It also calls 

 attention to the evils, which are bringing the trials into disrepute, and cause so 

 many heavy losses. For instance, the circular condemns buying at a certain 

 amount and the rise, as an unbusiness like method. Then we have no recog- 

 nized standards, either as to quality or grading. This society holds its annual 

 meeting in Toronto, the ist Tuesday in August, 1894; John A. Cooper, 

 Toronto, is Secretary-Treasurer. 



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