THE CANADIAN H0RTICULTUEI8T. 



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had 1,600 quarts on one-eighth of an 

 acre — ^jiist what I had on three-quarters 

 of an acre, i.e., mine six times told. 



BLACK SPOT ON THE APPLE. 



For many years this disease has been 

 going on from bad to worse, till now 

 our orchard hardly deserves the name. 



Mr. E. P. Powell, of Clinton, the 

 writer of a sensible letter on apples 

 which appeared in the New York 

 Independent of 23rd Sept., says : — 



" If anything can be more gratifying 

 *' than to "see a row of these lovely 

 *•' apj)les in October it must be outside 

 "of the apple orchard. The fruit is 

 ''superb in quality as well as beauti- 

 "ful." 



So said I ten yeai-s ago, but a dif- 

 ferent tale we have to tell to-day. Our 

 once noble Fameuse seems to be played 

 out. Spotted is no name for mine. 

 Shrivelled up and black nearly all over, 

 it is a cumberer of the ground and en- 

 tirely worthless. In 1877 I gathered 

 from two trees seventeen barrels of 

 apples as beautiful as Mr. Powell de- 

 scribes, and sold them for $51. My 

 200 trees will come short of yielding 

 me such an amount this year. The St. 

 Lawrence and Mcintosh Red are not 

 much better. The Tolman Sweet, which 

 till this year escaped, is badly spotted. 

 I am sorry to say even the Wealthy is 

 spotted, although not to the same ex- 

 tent as the above kinds. The American 

 Golden Russet is about the only healthy 

 tree I have. They are entirely free 

 from the spot, and bore heavily. 



My own orchard and a few adjoining 

 are more affected by the disea.se than 

 any I know of, but the following re- 



ports, which I received in answer to 

 enquiries concerning the progress of the 

 disease from parties in different sections, 

 show the disease to be general : 



Toronto. — Messrs. Stone <fe Welling- 

 ton say : The s})ot on the Fameuse is 

 worse this year than usual, and the fruit 

 is much smaller. Our Wealthy apples 

 at the nursery are not spotted at all. 



Lindsay. — Thomas Beall : My Fa- 

 meuse is much worse than ever before. 

 I may possibly be able to see one-half 

 of them, but I think I could not find 

 one per cent, clear. The St. Lawrence 

 are equally unsalable, caused by crack- 

 ing. The Wealthy injured, but not to 

 the same extent. Alexander both spot- 

 ted and cracked. 



Iroquois. — Dr. Harkness : The Fa- 

 meuse are badly spotted ; quite free in 

 1885. Have only a few Tolman ; they 

 are not spotted enough to injure them 

 seriously. My Wealthy are not bear- 

 "^g y^t, ; a neighbor had a few almost 

 free from spots, a beautiful apple. 



Montreal. — James Morgan, jun. : Fa- 

 meuse apples are badly spotted in this 

 section, especially on old trees. Weal- 

 thy, I think, are all right. Any that 

 I have seen are clean and large, and I 

 think will supersede the Fameuse in 

 time. 



Village des Culnaies, Co. V Islet, P. 

 of Q. — Auguste Dupuis : Our Fameuse 

 are less spotted this year than last. 

 Some native varieties are greatly spot- 

 ted. Farmers whom I met at the hor- 

 ticultural county fairs complained bit_ 

 terly of the great damage to their apples. 

 They say that the spots are caused by 

 the dampness of the temperature in 



