THE CANADIAN HORTICULTITRIST. 



127' 



exaggerated. It is only -when they 

 have young that they hunt for them. 

 I saw a fern lie to-day busy catching 

 spiders from a vine trained against a 

 wall, while several hundred others were 

 eating fruit buds. One chipping spar- 

 row is worth twenty English for dee- 

 troying insects, while the English drives 

 them away. 



Law or no law, I will try and des- 

 troy as many sparrows as I can in the 

 most wholesale manner possible. 

 Yours truly, 



James Dougall. 

 Windsor Nurseries, April, 1882. 



♦♦ LOST RUBIES." 

 To THB Editor or the Canadian Horticulturist. 



Dear Sir, — Allow me to call the 

 attention of your correspondent, Mr. 

 J. C. Robinson, of Owen Sound, to an 

 unfortunate slip in his note on page 95 

 of your April number. 



Mr. Robinson says, " No one can 

 convince me that ' Lost Rubies ' is 

 akin to foreign sorts ; the leaf and cane 

 art as plainly native as our Canada 

 thistle." 



Mr. Robinson will be perhaps mor- 

 tified to learn that Canada cannot claim 

 the honour of being the mother coun- 

 try of this prolific thistle. Had he 

 seen as many acres of it as I have seen 

 in the old country, he would know that, 

 like many others of our plant and in- 

 sect pests, it has been introduced — 

 like the white man himself. The 

 simile was unfortunate for his argu- 

 ment. 



While I am writing, T should like 

 to mention that the name of the manu- 

 facturer of Buhach, on page 76, should 

 be Mr. Milco, not Miles. This correc- 

 tion may prevent the miscarriage of 

 letters. g ^ Clatpol.. 



New Bloomfield, Perry Co., Pa. 



GRAPE VINES AT BALTIMORE. 



I am well pleased with the Canadian 

 Horticulturist. It was a well-spent 

 dollar. The repoi-t is well worth the 

 amount. I have over nine hundred 

 Grape Vines set out at present ; and 

 I am ex|)erimenting and trying to im- 

 prove or invent new or better systems 

 of training, that will harmonize better 

 with the natural growth of the vine, 

 and that can be successfully and econ- 

 omically laid down and covered for 

 winter, which is a necessity in this 

 country. T. A. Chapman. 



CANADIAN APPLES IN THE 

 ENGLISH MARKET. 



The arrivals of Canadian apples at 

 the port of Liverpool last year were 

 something over 200,000 barrels, but ow- 

 ing to the shortness of the crop in both 

 the United States and Canada these 

 numbers will certainly not be reached by 

 the imports from the two countries dur- 

 ing the present { 1 88 1 ) season. In fact, the 

 shipments to Liverpool within the last 

 three months, as compared with those in 

 the corresponding period of last year, 

 show a decrease of nearly 30,000 bar- 

 rels. W ith the view of giving the trade 

 an opportunity of judging for them- 

 selves as to the most valuable class of 

 apples to be imported to this country, 

 Mr. Smythe, the Canadian Government 

 Agent at London, Ontario, has forward- 

 ed a consignment of some hundred dif- 

 ferent varieties of Canadian apples, 

 properly classified, which were supplied 

 by the leading growers in his district. 

 These are on exhibition at Liverpool. 

 It is expected that the next Allan 

 steamship will bring from Canada a 

 further supply, which will be exhibited 

 at the letuling pomocultural shows in 

 Great Britain. By this means it is in- 

 tended to promote the interests of this 

 important branch of the Canadian ex- 

 port trade. — The Grocer. 



