4o8 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



In our houses, with a furnace in our basement or cellars we cannot keep fruit for any 

 length of time and therefore many consumers will gladly pay $2.00 for a quarter of a l)arrel 

 of prime apples who would not pay $6 or even $5 for a whole barrel. 



A few^ days since I took Mr Dana some very large seckle pears, grown in California. 

 The next day when I called vipon him he told me that they were the best seckles he had 

 ever eaten. They were three times the size of the ordinary seckle grown in this section, 

 and I paid five cents for three of them ; such facts as these which I can multiply indefi- 

 nitely convince me that Canadians should grow apples and let California and our (Southern 

 States grow pears. Nature or God in Nature has so ordained it, and why should Cana- 

 dian pomologists undertake to antagonize the inevitable, or in other words the Omnipotent. 



I am made to say in one of my previous letters published in the Horticultukist, that 

 Early Joe apples grown in my garden at Oshawa, were bitter, whereas I said they were 

 " brittle." 



Francis Wayland Glen. 



Dated October 14th, 1896. 



Ammonia. 



Sir, — I think that J. E. K. Herrick's query in the October Horticulturist (pace 

 372), probably refers to the strength of the ammonia used in dissolving Copper Carltonate 

 in making the ammonia solution, wliich is used late in the season as a substitute for 

 Bordeaux mixture, and not to ammonia as a fungicide by itself. I have never known 

 annnonia to be used as a fungicide by itself, and I do not think that it would be of much 

 service. To dissolve 5 ounces of Copper Corbonate, 2 quarts (I ' Winchester ' ) of anmionia 

 of the strength known to the drug trade as '880 fort is nei^essary. This quantity may 

 then be diluted with 45 gallons of water — the usual capacity of a coal oil barrel. It is 

 then ready for use. 



John Craig, Ottawa. 



The Black Currant, Success. 



Sir, — The above mentioned currant, sent out by you a few years ago, fruited with me 

 for the first time this season, and I was greatly pleased with it. It is fully two weeks 

 earlier than the others I have, which, I presume, aie Black Naples, and ripens its fruit 

 more evenly, nearly all at once, which is a very desirable feature. The quality is excellent. 

 When at Ottawa Experimental Farm the other day, I saw Prof. Ci'aig putting up a quantity 

 of fruit, and comparing the different kinds. I found no black currants any better than 

 Success, and that was Prof. Craig's opinion. This has been a splendid year in this section 

 for all kinds of small fruits, and I am glad to say more attention is being paid to them. 

 Apples are also a tremendous crop. In many orchards the trees are breaking down. 



C. W. Young, Gonitvall. 



Principles of Profitable Farming, or How to Raise Largb Crops for the Least 

 Money, is the title of a pamphlet published and sent free of charge to any farmer applying 

 for it, by the German Kali Works, 93 Nassau St., New York. 



