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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



Plum for Name. 



1251. Sir,— Enclosed you will find a branch 

 of plums, and I would like you to give them a 

 name if you can, we have nothing like it here. I 

 grafted a very large plum, but do not know the 

 name, into a shoot from a Moores' Arctic plum, 

 since dead This is the first year it has borne any, 

 and it is loaded, and the prettiest one ever I saw 



St. Thomas, Ont. B. Dixon. 



This plum considerably resembles Glass 

 Seedling". 



Borer in Spruce Tree*. 



1252. Sir, — A Buffalo friend of mine, who has 

 a summer home at Ridgeway, very much fears 

 that he is going to lose some handsome spruce 

 trees, by the ravages of a black insect, about an 

 inch long, much resembling a beetle. The creature 

 bores into the tree, making a deep hole, as clean 

 cut as though with an auger; the hole measures 

 about one-si.xteenth of an inch in diameter. It is 

 obvious that his trees are failing. Can you tell me 

 what this insect is and how to eradicate it, or what 

 to do to preserve the Spruce ? A reply at your 

 earliest convenience will be greatly valued. 



E. P. Blachford & Co., Toronto. 



It is somewhat difficult to identify the 

 borer which is destroying the Spruce trees 

 at Ridg-eway, without seeing^ the trees, or 

 specimens of the insect. 



However, from the description of the hole, 

 I will at least make a venture and say that 

 it is the work of the Longicorn Borer (Mon- 

 ohammus confusor), but the color of this 

 insect is not black as you say the insect in 

 question is. This insect bores a deep hole 

 quite round and regular into the wood of 

 sound trees. Frequently the hole made by 

 the emerging- beetle is one-half an inch in 

 diameter. The adult insect is grayish brown 

 in color, a little over an inch and a quarter 

 in length, and has very long antennae, by 

 means of which it may be readily recognized. 



I know of no practical remedy against 



these insects. Usually the trees which are 

 beginning to decay are most liable to attack, 

 so that possibly in this case it would be 

 unwise to spend time in treating the trees, 

 even if practicable measures could be de- 

 vised. 



Will you kindly send me specimens of the 

 borer. Very truly yours, 



O. A. C, Guelph. W. Lochheed. 



Canadian Apples Wanted. 



1253, Dear Sir, — A friend of mine, Mr Ralph 

 Richardson, Probate Registrar, of 10 Maydale 

 Terrace, Edinburgh, Scotland, has written me 

 thrice in reference to our Canadian apple, which he 

 had seen in the Glasgow Exhibition, and he asks 

 me why the finest Canadian varieties are not sent 

 to the Scottish market. He says he ate a capital 

 Canadian apple at the Glasgow Exhibition in July 

 while no such apples had been for sale for months, 

 though the cold storage system should enable us 

 to send them to Scotland all the year round. 



Our mutual friend. Professor Baker, suggested 

 to me that I should write you as a person who took 

 great interest in the matter. If you will kindly 

 answer Mr. Richardson's enquiries I shall forward 

 your letter to him. Yours truly, 



George R. R. Cockburn, Toronto, Ont. 



The possibilities of cold storage were not 

 realized before, but have been well proved 

 by the storage of those magnificent apples 

 for the Glasgow Exhibition. We for- 

 warded them in November to Montreal, 

 where they were held until the following 

 May, and then forwarded to Glasgow to 

 be brought on the tables from time to time. 

 The result proves what can be done, and we 

 would take advantage of the opportunity at 

 once were it not for the apple failure of this 

 season. Another season no doubt such 

 apples will be placed on the Glasgow 

 market in July. 



©[pd^ L(ittei?'g, 



Gooseberry Notes 1901. 



Sir, —I have to report another season's fight 

 with mildew upon the gooseberry with only partial 

 success. The early part of the season was not 

 favorable for spraying, we had so many showers. 

 The first two sprayings were made before the leaves 



came out, with blue stone water, two pounds to 

 twenty-five gallons of water. Afterwards liver 

 of sulphur was used, one ounce to two gallons of 

 of water. Sprayings were made after every shower. 

 The Imperial nozzle was used, which thmws the 

 finest spray, and by holding the nozzle and direct- 



