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xinsprayed Greening", grown without care on 

 an exhausted soil, will scald months before 

 a sprayed, well fed one, put into storage 

 under exactly the same conditions. 



For the great winter market, plant only 

 leading market sorts especially suited to cold 

 storage, such as Baldwin, Greening, Spy, 

 King and Sutton. If properly grown, I do 

 -not assort my fruit for storage, merely 

 requiring" that it be handled gently in 

 gathering, defective fruit dropped to the 

 ground and apples slid from picking-basket 

 •into crate, where it remains until assorted 

 for market. The bruising avoided by this 



minimum of handling adds much to long 

 keeping and saves expense. All care 

 possible should be taken to keep fruit cool 

 after gathering and in transit to cold 

 storag"e. Keeping quality is frequently 

 impaired by overheating in railroad cars or 

 in heaps in orchard or barn. A few hours 

 of excessive heat before storing will cause 

 fruit to scald or decay in midwinter. Give 

 such care in growing and preparing fruit for 

 storag"e or market as will insure a uniform 

 product of high excellence. There is no 

 time when there is not a paying demand for 

 the best fruit. 



AGARICACEAE. 



1AM much obliged to Mr. Dearness for 

 his valuable article on the distribu- 



■ tion of agarics. I trust that he will 

 write again and that others may be in- 

 duced to follow his example. I would 

 also suggest that if he knows of any re- 

 liable data or records respecting the mush- 

 rooms, edible and poisonous, to be found in 

 Canada he will give this information to the 

 readers of the Horticulturist. 



Respecting the Agaricus gambosus or 

 Tricholoma gambosum, Fr. , Mr. Dearness 

 .gives me the credit of being the first to re- 

 port it in Canada and suggests its having 

 been imported "amongst the roots of shrubs 

 or plants from Europe." It is quite possible 

 that this may be the correct explanation. 

 The main college building known as "Tra- 

 falgar Castle" contains a large amount of 

 oak imported direct from England. The 

 grass seed sown upon the lawn, and some 

 of the shrubs found in the grounds were also 

 imported from England. It will be interest- 

 ing in this connection to note a striking in- 

 stance of the transportation of mushrooms 

 that have been found in the lawn, adjoining 

 the college ground, formerly owned by Mr. 

 Jas. Holden, the President of the Whitby, 



Port Perry and Lindsay Railway. In this 

 lawn are to be found morels, the only ones 

 found in this vicinity though they are quite 

 abundant to the north. On enquiry have 

 learned that the lawn was at one time quite 

 low and damp in some places and that Mr. 

 Holden brought down from the north several 

 car loads of earth to improve his lawn and 

 brought with it no doubt the mycelium of 

 the morel. 



Mr. Dearness refers to the disagreeable 

 odor of the T. gambosum of England as re- 

 ported by Dr. Cooke. The species found in 

 the college grounds had a decided fungus 

 odor, though not a "heavy, disagreeable 

 odor." For some time I was in doubt as to 

 its being the real gambosum, and referred to 

 Dr. Colville, of the United States Dept. of 

 Agriculture, who seemed to think that it 

 was. There must be considerable difference 

 in the matter of odor. Dr. Mcllvaine in his 

 recent work states that T. gambosum is 

 found in Chester and Lebanon county. Pa., 

 also around Philadelphia, etc., and that its 

 " odor is pleasant like that of a new meal." 



Have been rather surprised to learn that 

 any harmful results have come from eating 

 Lepiota Naucinoides. This mushroom is 



