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The perfect apple is not yet introduced, that will meet all requirements. 

 The Blenheim Orange is a magnificent early winter apple for the middle of our 

 Province ; at Peterboro' Mr. Edwards counts it one of his finest varieties for 

 export. The Ontario is winning favor everj'where as a winter export apple, 

 being of excellent quality and fine appearance. The Wealthy is a beautifully 

 striped, early winter apple, the quality of which somewhat resembles the Snow 

 apple, but of larger size. It is highly valued because of its hardiness. The 

 York Imperial is a claimant for the first place as a winter export apple. 



Plants for Name. 



S69. Sib, — I send you two cuttings which I found growing on sheltered places here. 

 The one with the stone fruits grows on a shrub-like tree, ten or twelve feet high. The 

 other is a slender growing vine with bright scarlet berries when ripe ? 



Wm. Habbis, Rockiuood, OtU. 



Reply by Prof. J. H. Fanton, O. A. C, Gueiph. 



Of the plants sent for identification, the one with red berries is bitter- 

 sweet (Solanum dulcamara. Order Solanaceae). The other is Alternate-leaved 

 Cornel (Cornus alternifolia. Order, Cornaceae.) 



An Insect Affecting: the Wisteria. 



890^> Sib, — I mail you two specimens of a long yellow worm in its nest in the leaves 

 of a Wisteria vine. Quite a number of them appear each year. Can you teli me the name, 

 history and remedy. 



A. .S. Smith. Ravengwood, Out. 



Reply by Prof. Jas. Fletcher, Exper. Farm, Ottawa. 



The two yellow caterpillars found by Mr. Smith on his Wisteria vines are 

 those of the handsome silver-spotted skipper butterfly, Eudamus Tityrus. This 

 is a very large species for the family to which it belongs, spreading about two 

 inches from tip to tip of the wings. It is a dark chocolate brown with a row of 

 large satiny, old-gold spots on the upper surface and a large silvery white spot 

 on the lower side of the hind wings. It is found in nearly the whole of the 

 United States and Eastern Canada as far west as Manitoba. The curious, 

 formidable-looking caterpillar which you send makes a nest within which it 

 remains concealed, by fastening together with silk the leaves of various plants 

 belonging to the pea family, such as the Wisteria, upon which Mr. Smith found 

 it. It is also common on the locust — Robinia — and I have sometimes found it 

 on various kinds of beans. The perfect insect is a beautiful butterfly and a 

 very vigorous flyer. This caterpillar, although occasionally abundant, can be 

 easily destroyed by hand picking when with a very little practice the tent-like 

 nests can be detected and plucked off. 



