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spray was made, and every part of the 

 foliage covered, but with so small a quan- 

 tity of petroleum that no harm was likely to 

 result. This is a much more sensible plan 

 than that of attempting to mix kerosene and 

 water, for they will only mix mechanically, 

 not really, and will separate almost immed- 

 iately. It is simple of application and in 

 every way an admirable insecticide. It can 

 be applied without injury to the foliage. 

 We have ourselves tried pure kerosene oil 

 as an insecticide, applying it with an ato- 

 mizer in very fine spray to rose bushes for the 

 aphis, and had excellent results. We found 

 the foliage, however, destroyed wherever the 

 spray was applied a little too freely. The 

 crude petroleum is less injurious, however. 



The Fruit Prospects for igoi seem to 

 grow worse every day. The cherries at first 

 promised a fair crop, and of some varieties 

 the green fruit hung upon the trees in great 

 abundance, but the nearer it came to matur- 

 ity the less there remained, until harvest 

 time when we began to gather, and lo ! be- 

 tween rot, and blight, and worm, there was 

 then none fit to market. Our cherry plot, 

 from which we expected such a rich report, 

 is so barren of fruit that we cannot find even 

 a single specimen for purposes of study. 



The few apples which had set are rapidly 

 falling to the ground, until in an orchard at 

 Maplehurst, where we should count the crop 

 by thousands of barrels, there will probably 

 not be fifty barrels of winter appl'es ! 



Peaches are holding their own very well, 

 and now that we are so well on in the sea- 

 son, we doubt not they will hold to the end, 

 and that there will be a pretty good crop of 

 this luscious fruit. 



Pears and grapes promise better than any 

 other fruits, and should high prices prevail 

 for those fruits ovving to the scarcity in 

 other parts, then we may hope for a fairly 

 remunerative season after all. 



No doubt the cause of the cherry and 



apple failure is the continuous rains in the 

 month of May, while the bloom was on. 

 The effort of nature is to produce seed and 

 the fruit is only the envelope to protect or 

 nourish the seed ; this washing out of the 

 pollen prevents fertilization of the seed 

 and it therefore becomes aborted. The 

 fruit envelope therefore in Nature's view is 

 useless and the whole thing is cast of as 

 worthless. 



American Pomological Society. — The 

 details of the meeting of the American Pomo- 

 logical Society, which will be held in Buffalo, 

 September 12 and 13, 1901, are rapidly be- 

 ing perfected and will soon be announced. 

 The program contains the names of a num- 

 ber of the most prominent horticulturists of 

 the United States and Canada, and is par- 

 ticularly rich in topics of practical import- 

 ance to fruit growers. Among the subjects 

 already arranged for are the following : 



" A Comparison of Eastern and Pacific 

 Coast Fruit Culture," by Prof. L. H. Bailey, 

 Ithaca, N. Y. 



** Orchard Renovation," by J. H. Hale, 

 South Glastonbury, Conn. ; to be discussed 

 by R. S. Eaton, Wolfville, Nova Scotia ; W. 

 T. Macoun, Ottawa, Canada, and others. 



" Quality and the Market," by C. W. 

 Garfield, Grand Rapids, Mich.; to be dis- 

 cussed by S. D. Willard, Geneva, N. Y. ; L. 

 A. Goodman, Kansas City, Mo., and others. 



" Development and Needs of the Export 

 Trade in North American Fruits," by L. 

 Woolverton, Grimsby, Ontario ; to be dis- 

 cussed by Geo. T. Powell, Briarcliff Manor, 

 N.Y.; H. M. Dunlap, Savoy, 111.; Henry E. 

 Dosch, Hillsdale, Oreg. , and others. 



"Fermentation of Fruit Juices by Control 

 Methods," by Prof. Wm. B. Alwood, Blacks- 

 burg, Va. 



" Some Experiments in Orchard Treat- 

 ment and the Results," by Prof. F. M. Web- 

 ster, Wooster, Ohio. 



"The Utilization of Culls in Commercial 



