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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



November, 1908 



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OF CANADA 



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"sprawling over the ground," certainly an 

 undesirable result. Mr. Gott evidently for- 

 gets that the article referred to deals only 

 with the summer care of a vineyard. The 

 winter work when most of the pruning 

 and the tying is done is not touched upon. 

 In a vineyard that is systematically pruned 

 in winter and the vines properly tied up 

 either to two or three wires according to the 

 system of pruning followed, the vines will 

 hardly form a network over the ground dur- 

 ing the summer even though no summer 

 pruning be practised. Eeading further in 

 the paragraph in which the expression 

 ajrpears, Mr. Gott will see that it has re- 

 ference to cultivation only, the point being 

 that clean cultivation should be followed 

 in summer. 



From my- remarks on summer pruning, 

 Mr. Gott concludes that I am in. a poor 

 position to minister to the needs of the 

 grape growing public. In that article I was 

 not posing as a teacher. I described a 

 method of summer care of a vineyard that 

 has been followed in our vineyard with 

 most satisfactory results. We have not been 

 hampered in our cultivation operations by 

 the vines sprawling all over the ground. 



Mr. Gott is right when he says that a 

 systematic method of summer pruning 

 should be followed. He is wrong when he 

 imagines that a complete network of vines 

 would obscure the ground if such a system 

 were not practiced. If such has been his 

 experience then his system of winter prun- 

 ing and tying is faulty. As I said in my 

 previous article we remove all sprouts and 

 trim back the vines to a certain extent in 

 order to retard vine production and thus 

 promote the production of fruit, I believe, 

 as I have said, that if all non-bearing wood 

 were removed even better results would be 

 obtained. No doubt this is what Mr. Gott 

 refers to when he speaks of a most complete 



and systematic system of summer pruning. 

 That we do not do this can hardly be attri- 

 buted to laxity and carelessness as Mr. Gott 

 would infer. 



The aim of a producer of aijy commodity 

 should be to produce the highest grade 

 possible. This is what we strive to do in 

 the matter of grape production. In this 

 respect the method we have followed has 

 availed us. It may appear crude to such 

 eminent horticulturists as Mr. Gott. True, 

 it can be improved and will be improved; 

 yet, the fact that it has been the means of 

 enabling us to produce a good quality of 

 fruit, is evident that we are not so very 

 "far off" as Mr. Gott would lead us to 

 believe. — G. H. Carpenter, Fruitland, Ont. 



The University of Maine has ordered, at 

 the Quebec fruit station. Village des Aul- 

 naies, several hardy and productive varie- 

 ties of plums. Professor Gardner, former- 

 ly of the Macdonald College, wants to try, 

 at Orono, Me., the varieties that do so well 

 at this Quebec station. Mr. August Dupuis, 

 the director, has been successful in growing 

 fruits at this station that at one time were 

 thought to be impossible to grow so far north. 



We have recently been advised by T. J. 

 Poupart, of Covent Garden, London, Eng., 

 that they have just taken a large fruit ware- 

 house, which they claim is the finest in -^ 

 London, and that they are in a better posi- 

 tion than ever to care for the constantly 

 increasing trade of Canadian apples, on 

 the London market. The great quantity of 

 apples consumed in London and vicinity, 

 makes London one of the leading centres 

 in Great Britain for Canadian apples. This 

 firm transact their business by private 

 treaty only and, therefore, are in a position 

 to sell each mark on its merits Their ad- 

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