FRUIT GROWERS AT ROCHESTER.— I. 



EING invited to speak on the export 

 of tender fruits, the writer attended 

 the annual meeting of the Western 

 New York Horticultural Society, 

 which was first organized forty-seven years 

 ag"o, five years before our own. The divi- 

 sion which arose last year between fruit 

 growers and nurserymen over the proposi- 

 tion to seek legislation for compelling fumi- 

 gation of nursery stock has been agreed to 

 by both interests, and, in spite of the snow 

 blockade, a large number of the best fruit 

 growers were present. Among those re- 

 presenting Ontario were Messrs. E. D. 

 Smith, Winona; Joseph Tweedle, Winona; 

 and E. Morris, of Fonthill. 



Dwarf Apple Trees. — Prof. Beach, of Ge- 

 neva Experimental Station, advocated train- 

 ing apple trees in a different manner in view 

 of the necessity of fumigation and spraying, 

 and Dwarfs were advocated as one way of 

 meeting the conditions. These are made 

 using the Doucin, or the stiil slower grow- 

 ing French Paradise stock. Every variety 

 of apple succeeds on Doucin stock, and 

 bears early, say in five years after planting ; 

 while on Paradise it may bear still earlier. 

 Planted 8x8 or lox lo one may set 400 or 

 500 trees per acre, and thus to a certain ex- 

 tent, they will make up in number what they 

 lack in size. These little trees will not of 

 course live, to the age of standards, and 

 their usefulness will be over in 20 or 30 

 years, but it is suggested that possibly these 

 disadvantages will be counterbalanced by 

 ease in reaching them from the ground for 

 pruning, spraying, thinning and fruit gath- 

 ering, while, if the apples are blown down, 

 they will not be so liable to injury by winds. 

 The planting of such trees is on the increase 

 in England where the Dwarf is growing in 

 favor. 



The Bismarck apple was spoken of as a 

 very early bearer of very fine fruit, for even 

 on standard it has been found bearing fruit 

 at the age of two years ; surely it will be 

 worth while to try this Bismarck apple at 

 all fruit stations. 



New Ideas in Strawberry Culture was the 

 subject of a vigorous address by R. M. Kel- 

 log, of Three Rivers, Michigan. The first 

 runner plants, he said, were the most vig- 

 orous and productive, and he had made it a 

 rule to use only these. In this way he had 

 succeeded it raising plants of the highest 

 value for productiveness. 



Mr. Kellog has promised to give us a 

 copy of his address for a future number of 

 journal so we will omit farther note of it 

 here. " What is the berry you sell the 

 most plants of?" I asked him as we were 

 seated at dinner. "Well," he said, "dur- 

 ing the past season the Brandywine ; it is 

 an excellent shipper and very productive.' 



"I think," said Mr. E. D. Smith, of 

 Winona, " that the Williams is the most 

 popular market variety. It is also an ex- 

 cellent shipping variety, and in Ontario it 

 is in far greater demand than Brandywine." 



"What about the Clyde," I asked ; and 

 here the doctors seemed to disagree. 

 Smith said it was too soft to buy for re- 

 shipping ; Kellog said it was a very profita- 

 ble berry grown on heavy soil, but not pro- 

 fitable on light sand, "There is one va- 

 riety named after yourself," said Kellog, 

 "the Woolverton, that is a wonderfully 

 fine berry. It deserves to be much more 

 widely grown than it is, for it is firm, of 

 large size, and productive, in many respects 

 it is an ideal berry." 



Of the new varieties Mr. Kellog men- 

 tioned Aroma as being very promising. 



Tlie Clierry Fruit Worm was characterized 



