THif CANADIAN lIOUTIGULTUniST, 101 



As to my trees not bearing so heavily as I would expect, I begin to 

 think an overdose of manure has encouraged the growth of wood 

 rather than fruit. But I don't fancy ♦anything mentioned in my 

 management is the cause of these mouldy spots. The disease is mostly 

 confined to the Fameuse; when sound, our favorite and most profitable 

 apple. The sample sent is a fair one, not of a few apples here and 

 there, nor confined to old trees, or over shaded ones, but of young 

 thrifty looking trees standing thirty feet apart, the fruit on many of 

 which this year was not worth gf^thering. 



I will be happy to hear suggestions by the Editor or some of the 

 members q,s to the ca\ise and the remedy. 



QUESTION PEAWEE. 



Mr. Linus Woolveyton, Grimsby, at the request of the Editor, has 

 prepared these answers, His experience in growing, handling, storing 

 and marketing fruit, entitles his opinions to great weight. 



The following questions 3,re fyom a subsci:iber in Meaford : 



(1) " Our apples iu this part 3,re badly 'spotted' this year, especially the Fameuso 

 (or Snow). Th« Russet variety escaped best. Please to tell us the cause of this, and 

 how to prevent it." 



The most effectual remedy that we know of for spotted fruit is to 

 avoid planting those varieties rtiat bear it. The Fall Pippin, Newtown 

 Pippin, Fameuse, Early Harvest and Eambo, are some years very badly 

 spotted. The Baldwin, the Eusset group, the Spitzenbepg, Eed Astra- 

 can, Golden Sweet, Duchess of Oldenburg, Gravenstein, and King of 

 Tompkins County, are seldom affected in this way. 



We believe it to be a fungous growth, for which the skin of some 

 kinds is more suited than others. Anything that will increase the 

 vigor of the trees will help to cure it, and to this purpose an application 

 of wood ashes, together with good cultivation will be highly conducive. 



(2) "I have lost several trees from the effects of being shaken or rocked about 

 by the wind ; they get loose at the roots. How shall 1 save the others ? They are 

 beginning to bear." 



We know of no way of keeping trees from being shaken about by 

 the wind except by tying them fast to stakes or posts. We should 

 suppose this difficulty would only present itself where the soil is shallo\v 

 pr very light. 



