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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



tegmine fagi — may add to that primi- 

 tive pleasure the still greater one of 

 *' sittinof under his own vine " and 

 apple tree, and snuffing the fragrance 

 of his own flowers, or yet, most gratify- 

 ing to some and acceptable to all, say 

 with lago : 



" Go to, put money in thy purse." 



Now for all this we must have each 

 other's experiences. The Horticulturist 

 can give generals, but the particulars, 

 the peculiarities, the idiosyncracies of 

 plants and places, can be obtained in 

 no way but by the members reporting 

 carefully, concisely, and fully. 



Milton, Ont. S. P. MORSE. 



THE CURRANT BORER. 



Is there nothing that can be done to 

 fight the Currant Borer 1 Of late I 

 have been training my red currant 

 bushes on a plan I found in a book I 

 brought from England entitled Mul- 

 tum in Parvo Gardening, or £620 

 annual profit from an acre, by Samuel 

 Wood. His system was to get upright 

 rods as soon as possible, then top them, 

 and the laterals that grew during the 

 summer were to be cut back in the 

 fall to one or two eyes, the same as 

 many adopt with their grape vines, 

 and he (Mr. Wood) maintains that 

 this is the right pruning for the red 

 currant and that they will bear im- 

 mense crops. 



On this plan I trained my bushes 

 last summer, but when I went to cut 

 the laterals in the fall I found the 

 borer had made three and four holes 

 in many of the rods, and as the only 

 remedy, even in Mr. Saunders' book on 

 insects, is to cut the wood away, I 

 did cut it away and spoiled all my 

 plans. Two bushes of Fay's I had to 

 cut almost to the ground. 



Now, Mr. Editor, can you not sug- 

 gest a i-emedy, or perhaps some of your 

 subscribers may have a remedy which 



they could give through your valuable 

 Horticulturist. 



London, South. E. RoBlNSON. 



Note by the Editor. — Unfortu- 

 nately we have never heard of any 

 other remedy than that of cutting 

 back the rods of the currant bushes 

 far enough to secure the worm, or 

 larva, which will be found in the pith, 

 and burning the cuttings and thereby 

 killing the larva that may be in them. 

 This is a very unsatisfactory proceed- 

 ing, and makes very slow headway 

 against the enemy. It is very much 

 like burning up one's currant bushes 

 in order to get rid of the borer. Can 

 any of our readers give us something 

 better 1 Has any one tried any other 

 method ? 



GOOSEBERRIES. 



T was much pleased to see the illus- 

 tration of the " Industry " gooseberry 

 in the December number. This is a 

 fruit of which I am fond, and I am 

 fully convinced tiiat if it received that 

 care and attention which it merits, it 

 would in suitable soil prove the most 

 profitable of our small fruits. 



I have cultivated for the last twelve 

 years the following EnoUsh varieties, 

 viz. : Whitesmith, Ocean Wave, Red 

 Warrington, and Crown Bob. They 

 have yielded enormously, and have 

 never shown the slightest signs of any 

 mildew. 



Last year T imported twenty-two 

 other English varieties, which I intend 

 testing, and will select such as are suit- 

 able and give satisfactory results. 



My garden is a stitt' clay, rendered 

 friable by coal ashes and plenty of stable 

 manure. From my own exi)erience and 

 that of others who have cultivated the 

 English sorts in this neighborhood, I 



