THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



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Harbor, and spent hundreds of dollars 

 on thinning. It cost him from 2}4 

 cents to lo cents per tree, but he could 

 not afford to neglect it in seasons of 

 abundance. His rule was to thin to 6 

 or even 8 inches apart. 



Hon. C. J. Monroe, of South Huron, 

 advocated legislation to prevent the 

 shipment or sale of 



SCABBY OR INSECT INFESTED FRUIT. 



He reviewed the condition of fruit grow- 

 ing the last few years, and pointed out 

 the condition of our markets glutted 

 not with good, but with second class 

 fruit. A resolution was the only hope, 

 by which the scabby and infested fruit 

 should never be allowed in our markets. 



California growers are alive to this, 

 and are asking legislation providing for 

 fruit quarantine, and the confiscation of 

 all wormy fruit, or scabby fruit found 

 on the markets, or at the shipping 

 points. 



We cannot compel every man to 



spray his orchard for scab ; nor to 

 bandage his trees for codling moth, but 

 we can make it a misdemeanor to offer 

 such wretched stock for sale, and this 

 will most effectually check its produc- 

 tion. 



The California Horticultural Act pro- 

 vides even for the disinfecting of all 

 fruit boxes that have been once used, 

 before using them a second time. It 

 also provides that all wormy, fallen 

 fruits in the orchards be gathered and 

 destroyed at least once a week. 



The result of such a law would be 

 either that a large proportion of the fruit 

 now produced would remain unmar- 

 keted, except to the canner or the 

 evaporator, or else the production of a 

 higher grade of fruit that would do 

 credit to the producer and to his 

 country. 



It is the interest of the ruit grower 

 himself we are consulting. As it now 

 is a cafeful grower who grades high, 

 sprays thoroughly, and packs conscien 



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