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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



June, igcH 



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season here, and continues havinj? frequent 

 cars forwarded to meet the demand. The 

 weather being cool has a tendency to cur- 

 tail trade. 



Pine apples, arriving in car lots from 

 Havana, are of .superior quality. Each 

 fruit is wrapped in tough soft paper, i8 

 to 36 in a crate. The cultivation of this 

 fruit must have every attention, and the 

 season as well must be favorable, as the 

 fine specimens coming forward show. Ban- 

 anas are arriving in large quantities and, 

 of superior quality. 



All these fruits, at moderate prices, have 

 a tendency to keep low grade apples, which 

 are much in evidence, at a price ruinous to 

 shippers. Apples on hand now have been 

 picked seven months. Their life is spent 

 and they are fast showing signs of decay. 

 Still, this fruit which was laid in in large 

 quantities, is decreasing fast. Fortunately, 

 we have so large a population in Montreal 

 that with one apple oft medium size per 

 head, it takes i,ooo barrels to, go the 

 round. 



Prince Edward Island 



Rev. Dr. Borke. 



To the query, "How does the show of 

 fruit buds compare with other years in 

 Prince Edward Island.?" I can only say 

 that the season is so backward here that 

 I have not had much opportunity to judge. 

 Looking over my own plantation to-day, 

 I find no trace of awakening life ; every- 

 thing is still bound up in its winter lethar- 

 gy. Whilst we have had the mildest of 

 winters, the spring is anything but ad- 

 vanced. Usually plowing is in full swing 

 by the loth of May. 



I was a little afraid that perhaps the 



unusually changeable weather of the winter 

 might have affected the trees. In early 

 March the freshets were on ; as a matter 

 of fact we had thaws all through the win- 

 ter and the trees standing in this tepid 

 water with a hot sun and high temperature 

 were liable to be subject to premature 

 sap circulation such as might induce "sun- 

 scald," so called, later. Of course, if there 

 was any freezing in this process we will 

 see the results only after the summer is 

 entered upon. I am inclined to think, how- 

 ever, that things are all right in general 

 The trees which I examined look fine. Thc\ 

 are clean and healthy looking and so far 

 as I could judge, fairly well loaded with 

 fruit buds. 



Lasts year we had a .'"reat sliow of blo.s 

 som and very little fruit. Nobody could 

 tell just why not. The bareness of the 

 orchards then should help the trees to a 

 good crop this year. Nothing, without be- 

 coming outcast, can keep up barrenness 

 long. The cursed fig-tree is an example 

 to the ages of this. Even the inanimate 

 things seem to detest barrenness, "Nature 

 abhors a vacuum." 



There was no snow to hurt in the past 

 season ; no mice attacks on the unprotected 

 trees. They are ready to make wood and 

 fruit and I am hopeful that this year of 

 grace will brighten us with a full crop of 

 apples, at least. We have had a few short 

 years now and one misses the fruit im- 

 mensely after a period of plenty. There is 

 great fear of insect invasion, however. 

 The mild winter will permit the eggs of 

 orchard pests to come through unaffected, 

 and if all that are deposited hatch out, we 

 may have our haiftls full fighting them. 

 It is well to plan the campaign early and 

 3eliberately. 



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