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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



and other insects are plenty, it is of decided benefit. So, wholly aside from the 

 idea of insuring against risk, it is advisable to spray for those insects which are 

 more or less abundant every year. Some insects and diseases appear late in 

 the season, so that the spray may be needed at some epoch in the season. 

 Spray thoroughly, or not at all. I should say that fully half the spraying which 

 I have seen in Western New York in the last two or three years is a waste of 

 time and material. Squirting a few quarts of water at a tree as you hurry past 

 jt, is not spraying. A tree is thoroughly and honestly sprayed when it is wet all 

 over, on all the branches and on both sides of all the leaves. An insect or 



Fig. 946.— Thit Eclipse Pump. 



fungus is not killed until the poison is placed where the pest is. Bugs do not 

 search for the poison, in order that they may accommodate the orchardist by 

 committing suicide. The one spot which is not sprayed may be the very place 

 where a bud-moth is getting his dinner. On the other hand, there are many 

 fruit-growers who spray with the greatest thoroughness and accuracy, and they 

 are the ones who, in the long run, will get the fruit." 



Prof. Panton, of the O. A. C, Guelph, has issued a most convenient spray- 

 ing calendar, which every fruit-grower should have (a copy of which is here 

 appended), which may be had on application to the Department of Agriculture, 

 Toronto. 



