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ing is evidence that they have ceased 

 to grow. Two years ago apples picked 

 in September kept until March. As a 

 rule never put apples in the cellar 

 when first picked, but leave them in 

 the orchard in barrels or in heaps cov- 

 ered over with straw, but not enough 

 to heat them ; leave them there until 

 November, then barrel and put in the 

 cellar, or the barn floor or anywhere 

 else. This year he has been blessed 

 with a good crop of fruits of all kinds ; 

 pears in the greatest abundance, especi- 

 ally Duchess, Bartletts and Lawrence, 

 and has sold 1,244 bushels of Bartletts 

 alone, at good prices ; never saw such 

 crops of fruit. Apples are falling off 

 more than ever before, and earlier, but 

 are much more wormy than usual. 



[We have made it a rule for years to 

 begin gathering our winter apples as 

 early as the 20th Sept., notwithstanding 

 the fact that most of our neighbors do 

 not begin until about two weeks later. 

 All we need to wait for is to get the 

 full color, which is so great an attrac- 

 tion of our Canadian apples for export. 

 We usually pick our Greenings first, 

 because they ripen so early, and our 

 Spies last, for the bright sunny days of 

 October give them such a beautiful 

 rich, purplish-red color. — Ed. Horticul- 

 turist.] 



The Belleflower Apple. — Mr. 

 Waymire referred to having saved his 

 Belleflower apple trees, although at 

 one time he had gone to the orchard to 

 cut them down. The trees looked so 

 well, and the idea that it would take 

 ten or fifteen years before others would 

 grow to bearing if planted in their 

 places, caused him to hesitate before 

 destroying them. So he dug around 

 the roots and applied manure to about 

 four of them, and these four bore fruit 

 the next season, while apples fell off 

 the trees not so treated. 



John Bradford said that the Belle- 

 flowers were more profit to him than 



any other kind of apple, if properly 

 fertilized. Had eight trees that yield- 

 ed 35 to 40 barrels of Belleflowers each 

 year for three years, and sold readily 

 at advanced prices ; and this year have 

 a good crop, as can be seen by speci- 

 mens which he exhibited. 



Mr. Waymire said that Belleflowers 

 required more nourishment than other 

 trees. The tops droop and shade the 

 trees so that nothing will grow under 

 them, and they must be fed. His bear 

 so heavily as to require propping up. 

 Other farmers have tried his plan, and 

 their orchards are doing well. 



[We in Canada have pretty well dis- 

 carded the Belleflower as being a very 

 uncertain cropper, and because it bears 

 so much second-class fruit. It also re- 

 quires the most careful handling. — Ed. 

 Horticulturist. \ 



Spraying Fruit Trees. — In answer 

 to the question — how often is it neces- 

 sary to spray, and what to spray with ] 

 Mr. Ohmer said : We spray with pois- 

 oned water made with London purple, 

 arsenic or Paris green ; one pound of 

 purple to 140 or 150 gallons of water, 

 thoroughly stirred. 'Tis best to make 

 a paste of the purple, then mix it in a 

 barrel and spray it on the fruit just as 

 the trees are going out of bloom, tho- 

 roughly wetting the trees, and give 

 them another dose after that- The 

 codling moth is the insect that does 

 the most harm to your apples. It 

 comes out of cellars just as the trees 

 are going into bloom, dei)osits the egg 

 from which the little worm begins to 

 work around seeking a soft place in 

 the apple. The spray that you have 

 applied settles in the blossom end of 

 the apple, the worm eats it and dies, 

 and if your work has been well done 

 the first crop of the pests have been 

 destroyed, and there are no more to in- 

 jure the apple. The curculio is dif- 

 ferent, depositing in a lip on the side 

 I of the fruit where it does its work ; its 



