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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



for the first, on Early Crawford, and they were 

 large in size and highly flavored. 1 have had the 

 tree some years. I also saw a peach tree in St. 

 Mary's with a good crop, but not very large. I 

 mention this, as the opinion is growing that 

 peacnes can ba grown further north than usually 

 grown. 1 think a few may be grown here most 

 seasons for home use, but not enough for sale. 



What is the cheapest way to supply potash to 

 the land. I have got along so far with wood 

 ashes, but as coal is being more and more used 



they are getting scarcer ? I see potash is adver- 

 tised in the journal, but it is in New York, and no 

 agent is mentioned for Canada. 



Listowel. ' A. J. Collins 



Wood ashes can be had in car lots from 

 Rathbun Co., Deseronto, at a very small 

 cost. Would fertilizer dealers respond con- 

 cerning potash. 



@[p^[r| L(ittei?'S, 



San Jose 5cale Remedies. 



Sir, — The fruit growers of Ontario are becom- 

 ing more and more interested in the San Jose 

 Scale, and the question of how to extinguish it has 

 bacome one of great importance to many who at 

 first looked upon the agitation with indifference. 

 In the original centers of infestation the San Jose 

 Scale has multiplied and spread during the past 

 season more than ever before. There is no longer 

 lack of evidence of its destructiveness, for many 

 fruit trees have been killed by it at these old in- 

 fested points. The results from the remedies 

 u-;ed last spring when applied carefully and accord- 

 ing to the instructions, are very satisfactory and 

 encouraging, and the Minister of Agriculture for 

 Ontario will again supply spraying material (whale 

 oil soap and crude petroleum), for the destruction 

 of the San Jose Scale, at one-half its cost laid down. 



Parties wishing to take advantage of this oppor- 

 tunity may do so by communicating with me on or 

 before January 30th, 1902, after which date we 

 will not guarantee to fill orders. 



George E. Fisher, Inspector, 



Dec. i6th, 1901. Freeman, Ontario. 



Nova Scotia Awards. 



Qreat Britain's imports of Food Products. 



Sir, — In looking over the proceedings of the 

 loth annual meeting of the American Warehouse- 

 men's Association held in St. Louis, Mo. October 

 17, 18 and 19th, 1900, I find that during the year 

 ending June 30th 1900, England consumed fSoo, 

 000,000 in food stuffs or $1,200,000 daily. Of this 

 amount $650,000,000 was the value of imported 

 products, the refrigerated imports amounting to 

 about $400,000,000 made up as follows ; $135, 000 

 000 in dressed meats ; $30,000,000 in cheese ; $80, 

 000,000 in butter ; $30,000,000 in eggs ; $30,000,000 

 in poultry ; 825,000,000 in frozen fish ; $35,000,000 

 in fruit and $40,000,000 in other perishable food 

 stuffs. In addition to this the consumption of 

 foodstuffs in England is said to increase about 

 $25,000,000 yearly. 



The above figures show what this market is 

 worth and surely such a market is worth contend- 

 ing for. We cannot utilize it to advantage with- 

 out a strictly reliable cold storage service and we 

 should not desist till this is secured. 



Freeman, Dec. loth, 190 1. G. E. Fisher. 



Sir, — I have just received from W. J. Buchanan, 

 director-general of the Pan-American Exposition, 

 the official list of awards to growers of Nova Scotia 

 fruit exhibited by me there, which please publish : 



The Nova Scotia Fruit Growers' Association for 

 general exhibit of fruits—one gold medal. 



F. Arthur Starr, Cornwallis, for display of 85 

 varieties of apples and 20 varieties pears — cne 

 gold medal. 



Herbert Johnson, Wolfville, 20 varieties and 2 

 barrels apples— one silver medal. 



Mis. Olivia Johnson, Wolfville — one bronze 

 medal. 



I. Elliott Smith, Greenwich — one bronze medal. 



C. M. Vaughn, Wolfville— one bronze medal. 



Saxby Blair, Government Farm, Nappan, fruits 

 in acids — one bronze medal. 



Mrs. Ethel McKeen, Gay's River, Halifax— di- 

 ploma. 



James Elderskin, Wolfville — diploma. 



Byron Chesley, Clarence, Annapolis— diploma. 



Byron Chesley for fruits in acids— diploma. 



W. C. Archibald, Wolfville— diploma. 



The awards for vegetables have not yet bten 

 received. Arriving as we did in the last month of 

 the Exposition, and laboring under great disad- 

 vantage in exhibiting, the awards are most satis- 

 fsctory and should be a cause of pride to every 

 Nova Scotian. 



Wolfville, Dec. 9, 1901. J. W. Bigelow. 



Western New Yoric Fruit Growers. 



Sir,— Our 47th annual meeting in this city Jan. 

 22nd and 23rd, 1902. 



Program will include paper and talk from seme 

 of the leading scientific and practical horticultur- 

 ists in America. 



The discussion of questions will be a more pro- 

 minent feature than ever before and the program 

 will be exceptionally fine. 



It is worth any man's while, if at all interested 

 in fruit, to attend this meeting and rub up agaii st 

 over 800 of the cream of fruit-growers in New 

 York State. 



I will mail program, soon as ready, to all en- 

 quirers. 



Yours, etc., 



Rochester, N. Y. John Hall. 



