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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



how useful t)ie dissemination of advanced 

 methods. 



Prof. Bailey, of Cornell, explained why 

 the Fruit Growers' Associations of Califor- 

 nia were more successful commercially than 

 eastern organizations, because they were 

 unions of men interested in one thing — as 

 for example the Prune Growers' Association, 

 the Celery Growers' Association. True the 

 the individual grower loses his identity in 

 such a system, but unless a man has some-' 

 thing remarkable and distinctive about his 

 products he finds this system much to his 

 advantage. We should study carefully the 

 co-operative methods of California, for be- 

 fore we are aware of it these live organiza- 

 tions, with their systematic shipments of 

 carlots, will capture our eastern markets. 



Mr. Morill, President of the Michigan 

 Horticultural Society, gave an emphatic 

 testimony in favor of growing only fruits of 

 the highest quality, and of giving the high- 

 est cultivation. The " Dust blanket mulch" 

 and " Horseleg irrigation " might be vulgar 

 expressions, but they were of weighty sig- 

 nificance to American fruit growers. 



Mr. W. C. Barry would favor introducing 

 rto fruit unless it had high quality. The 

 Jonathan apple for example ought to bring 

 double as much money as the Baldwin, and 

 there are plenty of people who would pay 

 prices for fruits according to quality. 



Prof. Webster, of Ohio, said that fruit 

 men have more to fear from the late brood 

 Codling moth than from the early brood. 

 Indeed this is now our most formidable in- 

 sect enemy. Last year the experiment had 

 been tried of covering a tree with leno after 

 the first spraying, and all fallen apples were 

 removed on the 29th of August. After 

 about three weeks the fallen apples were 

 gathered, and under the trees protected with 

 netting there were only about 20 per cent, 

 wormy, and under those not so protected 

 70 per cent, were found wormy. This 

 shows Avhat might be accomplished by com- 

 plete protection. 



Next year he proposes trying to protect 

 the trees from various insect pests by using 

 an adhesive insecticide, and if he can dis- 

 cover a combination such as will serve all 

 purposes, he hopes every fruit grower will 

 be willing to apply it without compulsion. 



The Fruit Exhibit is now overflowing 

 with fruit, and equal in quality to any shown 

 in the Horticultural building, and the names: 

 of exhibitors are too numerous for mention 

 here. Among the varieties we noticed fine 

 samples of Old Mixon, Elberta, Crawford 

 and Jacques Rareripe peaches ; large Wick- 

 son and Paragon plums ; fine Moyer, Diana, 

 Delaware and Worden grapes, etc. A fine 

 case of pears, packed for export, was shown 

 by Messrs. Van Duzer and Griffith, of 

 Grimsby. 



A special table had to be provided for 

 a large collection o^ over 160 varieties of 

 apples which we sent forward from our On- 

 tario Fruit Stations to compete for the 

 Wilder medal, and we are pleased to report 

 that it was awarded a silver medal ; as was 

 also Mr. M. Pettit, our experimenter in 

 grapes at Winona, for his collection of over 

 one hundred varieties of grapes. Medals 

 were also awarded Mr. W. M. Orr, of 

 Fruitland, and Mr. Albert Pay, of St. Catha- 

 rines, for their excellent collections, so that, 

 in all, Ontario was granted four of these 

 medals by the American Pomological So- 

 ciety. 



The Pan-American Everbearing Straw- 

 berry is still on exhibition in the New York 

 State exhibit by S. Cooper, of Delavan, N. Y. ; 

 the finest Elberta peaches shown were sent 

 in from Michigan, they were simply immense; 

 and the largest Satsuma plums were exhib- 

 ited by the State of Connecticut. We also 

 noted in Mr. Orr's collection, the finest Sou- 

 venir pears, and in Mr. Pay's the finest Bosc. 

 Mr. Pay, pointing out his Wickson and 

 Paragon plums, said he preferred the latter 

 as being more productive. He showed fine 

 Campbells Early grape, but doubted whether 

 it was just quite as early as the Moore. 



