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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



April, 1907 



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I ANDSCAPE GARDENING —Plans drawn 

 *-* to scale for laying out and planting parks, 

 cemeteries, public or private grounds. Work 

 supervised C. Ernest Woolverton, landscape 

 architect, Grimsby. 



/^ARDENER seeks situation in private place. 

 ^^ Fifteen years' experience under glass and 

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■\Y7HITE LEGHORNS, "Standard bred lay- 

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 ORCAS, top quality, setting $1.50. BEL- 

 GIAN HARES, fancy stock, either sex, 50c. 

 A. WIDMER, Brampton. 



rOR SALE. — Niagara Power Sprayer, hun- 

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 crop sprayer, tank pump, complete outfit. Used 

 one season. F. Fairbrother, Oakville, Ont. 



^^•■^LifjQ Now is the time to place 

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 large stock of established Orchids on hand 



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work in an intelligent manner and on the lines 

 lie (the speaker) had laid down, he need have 

 no fears as to the ultimate success of his ven- 

 ture. 



INJURIOUS INSECTS 



Mr. T. A. Peters, the Deputy Minister of 

 Agriculture, desired to call the attention of 

 the meeting to certain caterpillars which might 

 possibly be found about the orchard and other 

 parts of the farm in the near future. They 

 were the caterpillars of the Gipsy moth and 

 the Brown Tail moth. This was a pest which 

 had apparently started in Massachusetts, and 

 was gradually working its way north. It had 

 already reached the State of Maine, where they 

 were spending thousands of dollars annually 

 in trying to destroy it. The mature caterpillar 

 of the Gipsy moth had a dusky or sooty colored 

 body. Along the back, counting from the 

 head, which is marked with yellow, is a double 

 row of blue spots followed by a double row 

 of red spots. This double row of spots al- 

 most invariably might be seen very distinctly 

 on the back of a Gipsy moth caterpillar which 

 had attained the length of 13^ inches or more. 

 There were 5 pairs of blue spots and 6 pairs 



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To eradicate San Jose Scale from 

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of red spots. Until the caterpillar grows to 

 the length of 1}4 inches it does not always 

 show these pairs of spots very distinctly. The 

 mature caterpillar, not infrequently, attains 

 the length of 3 inches. This caterpillar at- 

 tacks all kinds of trees, both hard and soft 

 woods, and if allowed to get a foothold, will 

 not only cause great damage to fruit growers, 

 but will cause serious damage to the lumber- 

 ing industry. 



The caterpillar of the Brown Tail moth feeds 

 only on fruit trees and the different species of 

 hardwood trees. When well grown it is of a 

 bright tawny or orange brown color, marked 

 along the sides of the body with a conspicuous 

 row of pure white spots, and having 2 bright 

 red spots at the lower end of the back. Where- 

 ever this insect comes in contact with human 

 flesh, it produces a most painful nettling, and 

 so severe is this affection, that in many cases 

 people have been made seriously ill by it. The 

 female is a very strong flyer. The female of 

 the Gipsy moth cannot fly; and that species 

 is spread mainly by being carried on different 

 vehicles. If any of the members should hap- 

 pen to come across a caterpillar which appeared 

 to answer either of these descriptions, he would 

 be glad to have it packed and forwarded to him. 



Gardeners in the Old Country are excited over 

 the introduction of American gooseberry mil- 

 dew into that country. It got a start through 

 the importation of a few American bushes 

 into Ireland. 



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