4o3 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



Bordeaux mixture, say three pounds of copper sulphate to three pounds of hme, 

 *to forty gallons of water. If the plants are in bloom, ammoniacal copper 

 carbonate can be substituted, and by using this the flowers will not be stained. 

 In house culture the fallen and' diseased leaves should be carefully collected and 

 destroyed. For the treatment of scale diseases a wash of strong soap suds is 

 probably the best preventive. Kerosene emulsion, if applied frequently and 

 carefully, will be found the most satisfactory on the whole. 



^ ©per? I^ettep^. $ 



Quid Pro Quo. 



Sir, — On page 315 may be read : ''As a ride we need not expect the regular practising 

 M. U.'s to recommend preventives to disease, when it puts money in their pockets to keep 

 people comfortably sick." The rule by which the writer gauges his fellow-men is not a 

 large one, neither does it indicate the possession of a large and generous disposition on his 

 own part. The assertion is not only ill-natured, but untrue. It is not safe, evidently, for 

 a member of the medical profession to call in c^uestion the authoritative declaration of this 

 Solomon come to judgment. At least he may only do so at the risk of having his character 

 basely aspersed. It is surely not calculated to strengthen a recommendation relating to 

 medicine to allow it to be inferred that those who have made a special study of the subject 

 are opposed to it. Possibly the use of fruit in the diet may be one of the very few prac- 

 tices that require no discretion in their application. FrCiit, perhaps, does good always ; 

 but does harm never. An apple-diet may be the best for a dyspeptic. Because I am a 

 practising M.D. I cannot be expected to know — or, at any rate, not to tell. The writer 

 agrees with us, doctors, in one respect. When we find it necessary to give a particularly 

 nasty dose, we endeavour to disguise the nauseousness of it by the addition of something 

 nice. Acting on this principle, Mr. L Foote would fain conceal the ill-nature that consti- 

 tutes the active principle of his composition by mingling with it a little sanctimony. He 

 has, however, overdone it, and the result is a compound so vile that it may be trusted to 

 serve as its own antidote. Nevertheless these petty slurs upon a noble profession, to which 

 mankind at large is so greatly indebted, are so often repeated and allowed to pass unrebuked, 

 that every ill-natured fellow thinks he can do this thing with impunity. If the doctors 

 are not all saints, it may yet be asserted that no body of workers on the footstool can com- 

 pare favorably with them in the amount of gratuitous services ungrudgingly rendered to 

 their fellows, irrespective of race, creed or so ;ial condition ; in confirmation of which I 

 appeal to the personal experience of each one of your readers. Yours truly, 



VV. O. Eastwood, M. D. 



Trotter's Hybrid Plum. 



Sir, — In reply to your inquiry I may say that I have only one tree of my hybrid plum. 

 Last year was the first bearing. This year I pulled a twelve-quart basket of plums from 

 it, and 1 believe it will be very productive. The fruit is of uniform size and appearance, 

 and colors well, taking on a beautiful bloom before it is fully ripe. It hangs well on the 

 tree when it is ripe, and keeps well after being gathered. TmcIvc plums which I had at 

 the exhibitions weighed 1 lb. 8 oz. , and were much admired. Some of our best judges 

 pronounce the quality excellent when fully ripe. The tree is a rapid and strong grower 

 and appears to be healthy. It is from hardy parents. The foliage is thick and retains its 

 leaves late in the season. 



R. Trotter, Oxcen Sound. 



