THE CANADIAN liORTICULTURISi. 



August 20th, we sold fifty baskets of 

 beautiful Burbanks at 15 cents each, while 

 even our Bradshaw and Washington are 

 only worth from 30 to 40 cents. 



Mr. A. Rogers, of Sparia, has a plum or- 

 chard of 700 trees, but between the rot nd 

 the low prices he says he has no satisfaction 

 with it. Indeed, he has decided to root ut 

 all except about two hundred Reine Claude 

 and a small block of specimen varieties. 



Mr. A. H. Pettit. of Grimsby, thinks On- 

 tario plum growers should not be too much 

 cast down by present low prices, because 

 the great Northwest will require these and 

 many other of our finest fruits, so soon as 

 efficient cold storage cars are provided. 

 " I have just returned from a tour in South- 

 ern Manitoba," said he, " and I am told out 

 there that they w^ant all our finest fruit — the 

 best we can grow — and for this they are 

 willing to pay almost any price ; but our 

 poor fruit they do not want at all." 



Mr. Henry Lutz, a well known New 

 York state fruit grower, who lives near 

 Youngstown, says the low price of the Bur- 

 bank is due to bad handling ; it is almost in- 

 variably gathered in loo green a stage, and 

 is, therefore, not appreciated in our nar- 

 kets — indeed, this practice is spoiling the 

 markets for Japan plums. The Burbank 

 should not be placed upon the market until it 

 is fully ripe, and if this hint is carefully 

 observed these plums will be much more 

 sought after. 



As for our European plums, Mr. Pettit 

 declares they are far superior in flavor to 

 those grown in British Columbia, so that in 

 spite of the advantage that country has over 

 us in first capturing those Northwestern 

 markets- there is still hope that we shall win 

 it back by reason of the superior flavor jf 

 our fruit. 



THE DRY BORDKAUX. 



MR. LUTZ has been trying the dry 

 powder' spray and is much pleased 

 with it. When applied in a very fine dry 



powder he finds that it clings to ,the tree 

 very well indeed, and is pleasanter to han- 

 dle than the liquid. The American Agri- 

 culturist says : 



^ Dry powders are put on 



..- 7 '"'■•••. ^'^^^ ^ blow gun or dust 



sprayer, and several are 

 on the market. An im- 

 provement on the ordi- 

 nary nozzle, which distri- 

 butes the powder in a 

 solid stream, has been 

 perfected by the Missouri 

 experimental station, and 

 is shown in Fig. 2643, 

 which represents a cross section. Fig. 

 2644, which is 2^ times d of Fig. 2643, ^^ 

 a pattern for cutting the tin which, when 

 folded, forms the deflective cone C of 



T,tS 

 Fig. 2463. Dust 



MOZZLE. 



Fig. 2464. 



Pattern for Cutting Cone 

 Deflecior. 



Fig. 2643. Cut along the dotted lines, and 

 after bending to form a cone solder it to- 

 gether ; curve the pieces, as upward. 



Solder the cone to the circular piece of 

 tin D, and connect the whole to the nozzle 

 of the machine by narrow strips of tin SS- 

 turned edgewise to the opening. This noz- 

 zle N fits over the straight nozzle furnished 

 with most of the machines. In Fig. 2643 

 D is 2^ times the diameter of d, which is 

 the outside diameter of the nozzle furnished 

 with the machine. 



A GOOD PEACH COUNTRY. 



MR. A. ROGERS, of Sparta, says that 

 the section of country between 

 Aylmer and Lake Erie is well adapted for 

 'peach growing. The soil is a black loam 

 with a clay subsoil, on which both large and 



