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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



January, 1913 



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.Mr. Gordon Bunting, son of Mr. W. H. 

 Buntinjir, the well known fruit jjrowcr, of 

 St. Catharines, who has been chief assistant 

 to Mr. W. T. Macoun, Dominion Horticul- 

 turist at the Experimental Farm, Ottawa, 

 has been appointed Professor of Horticul- 

 ture at Macdonald CoUejfe, Quebec. He 

 takes the place of Prof. W. S. Blair, who 

 goes to Kentville, N. S. Prof. Bunting is 

 the young-est professor in the McGill facul- 

 ty, Macdonald College being affiliated witih 

 McGill. He is twenty-six years of age, but 

 has had an unusually wide experience. 



An experiment conducted by J. Thome 

 Baker, a scientific expert of London, Eng. , 

 to ripen unripe peaches by the application 

 of electricity, is reported to have been suc- 

 cessful. A peach was charged with elec- 

 tricity and on being examined later, was 

 found to have ripened to the stone. Fur- 

 ther improvements are being made in the 

 apparatus that was used, with the object of 

 developing an instrument that hotels and 

 fruiterers will be able to use to ripen par- 

 tially green fruit. 



The Canadian Horticulturist has recently 

 received two extremely valuable publica- 

 tions. One is a book entitled "The Pota- 

 to" its authors being Eugene H. Grubb, 

 and VV. S. Guilford, two noted United 

 States authorities. It comprises some five 

 hundred and fifty pages, and is devoted en- 

 tirely to subjects pertaining to the culture 

 of potatoes. It is published by the Mus- 

 son Book Co., Limited, of Toronto, arnd re- 

 tails at $2. It is said to be the most com- 

 plete, final and authoritive work on the po- 

 tato ever issued. The second publication 

 is entitled "Michigan Bird Life," and is 

 by Walter Bradford Baxrows, of the Michi- 

 gan Agricultural College. It contains sev- 

 eral hundred pages, and is profusely illus- 

 trated. Practically all the known birds of 

 the continent are described fully. Any stu- 

 dent of bird life will find this volume a 

 treasure. 



Out of one million two hundred thousand 

 peach trees in the Niagara District. Prof. 

 L. Caesar of the O.A.C., Guelph, esti- 

 mates that over fifty thousand last year 

 showed symptoms of Yellows or Little Peach 

 and ought to be removed. Probably nine- 

 tenths of the diseased trees will be found 

 in about thirty-five orchards. These or- 

 chards are not confined to any one district, 

 but are pretty well distributed, though three 

 or four of the worst diseased orchards are 

 usually found close together. Prof. Cassar 

 states that the cause of the diseases is as 

 yet unknown. 



Nova Scotia 



The fruit growers of the Valley are thor- 

 oughly aroused to their danger from the 

 San Jose Scale, and their resolution passed 

 by the meeting at Kentville, on October 

 24th, caused the Government to immediate- 

 ly get into action. The new regulations 

 passed by Order in Council on October 25, 

 are sweeping in character, and while some- 

 what in the nature of a locked door after 

 the hen roost has been raided, will prevent 

 any further importation of trees covered 

 with dead or living scale. 



Briefly the new law is as follows. All 

 nurseries in districts where San Jose Scale 

 is known to exist, must have a yearly in- 

 spection and certificate from the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture of their apparent free- 

 dom from scale. All trees imported into 

 the province must have this certificate at- 

 tached, and come through either by Middle- 

 ton or Digby, where they will be re-exam- 

 ined and fumigated. Any stock found to 



