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THE CANADIAN HORTIOULIURIST. 



gether as to exclude air. There is 

 another advantage in using stones : 

 they steady the tree while forming 

 new roots. Yours, &c., 



M. O. H. 

 Cowansville, April 12, 1886. 



VIBURNUM DENTATUM. 

 Dear Sir, — The native shrub refer- 

 red to on page 82 of your April No., 

 must be a Yiburnum — probably den- 

 tatum, a fine shrub. 



Yours respectfully, 



P. Barry. 

 Rochester, N. Y., April 6th. 



CURRANT BORER. 



Sir, — In leply to your correspon- 

 dent's enquiry in reference to the " Cur- 

 rant Borer," I may say that when 

 residing in Japan, I found a worm of 

 this nature a deadly enemy to many 

 fruit trees, and especially to apple trees, 

 cherry trees, and other fruit trees not 

 indigenous. The only ways of stopping 

 its ravages, were to watch for the first 

 symptom of its being at work, and then 

 insert a fine elastic wire into its hole, 

 pushing it up and down ; or to take a 

 glass syringe with a fine point, and 

 pump kerosine or other like liquid into 

 the hole. I do not know if the borer 

 of this country is the same as that of 

 Japan : The latter is a white maggot, 

 which works its way by a small hole 

 into the stem or branch of the tree or 

 shrub, and hollows out a circular chan- 

 nel up the branch, of perhaps two or 

 three feet length. A little heap of what 

 looks like sawdust lies at the foot of 

 the tree, as the sign of his deadly lab- 

 our — deadly, for the tree soon suc- 

 cumbs, if not attended to. 



The climate of Japan (excepting the 

 north) of course difiers exceedingly from 

 this, but perhaps this experience may 

 be useful. Yours faithfully, 



A. J. Wilkin. 

 Pine Creek, Calgary, Ap. 16, '86. 



GRAPES AND STRAWBERRIES. 



As yet I can say nothing definite of 

 the value of the premiums received. 

 It was necessary to move Moore's and 

 Worden a year after planting, so that 

 I am so far unable to sit under my own 

 vine without danger from sunstroke. 

 In my garden the soil is sandy, and 

 rather poor. There is a full east and 

 south exposure, with a shelter belt on 

 the north and north-west. In such a 

 situation Prentiss made a poor growth 

 and failed to ripen half of that, while 

 Moore's, Worden, Pocklington and 

 Brighton ripened to the tips. Fay's 

 Prolific is a vigorous grower. 



In August, 1884, I purchased some 

 potted plants of Bidwell, Manchester, 

 Sharpless, Seneca Queen, Early Can- 

 ada, Jersey Queen, Triple Crown, 

 Shirts, and James Vick. They were 

 planted in rows in very rich soil, in- 

 clined to sand, runners cut, and a light 

 covering of straw thrown over the bed 

 after the first freeze up. Last season 

 Manchester and Seneca Queen bore 

 heavy crops of very large, handsome 

 berries ; Early Canada and James Vick 

 produced a large number of berries, so 

 small that it required a great deal of 

 patience to pick them. The others are 

 valueless with me. 



J. McN. Malcolm. 

 Norval, Halton Co. 



BARK LICE REMEDY. 

 Mk. Editor, — When I used the 

 Bark Louse Remedy, I mentioned to 

 you, my trees were but three or four 

 years old. One bag in the fork of the 

 tree was then sufiicient, and I think 

 one bag so placed would work into the 

 sap generally and be sufficient for any 

 sized tree, yet I have put it on a fe^v 

 large trees and used from two to four 

 bags to a tree, with the view of mak- 

 ing it more surely effectual, and placed 

 the bags so that the wash made by the 

 rains on the ingredients would come in 



