THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



would be to examine such packages as 

 seemed proper, and impose fines upon 

 any one offering for sale or shipping to 

 market falsely packed goods. 



The frontispiece to this article repre- 

 sents the packing of apples for export 

 in the orchard of Mr. Albert Pay, an 

 enthusiastic apple grower, at St. Cathar- 

 ines. In a letter recently received from 

 him, he gives some interesting details 

 which we here insert in full : 



suits. Six applications were used on 

 the one row and none on the row next 

 and the difference was very marked ; in 

 fact you could not find last year a per- 

 fect apple on the unsprayed, while on 

 the sprayed row ninety per cent, were 

 good clean fruit and not a wormy apple. 

 I picked eleven barrels off two Baldwin 

 trees and only one barrel off the two 

 unsprayed Baldwins, next to them. 

 There are Russets, Greenings, Baldwins 



Fig. 1541. — Harvesting Apples in Mr. Pay's Orchard 



"The photos sent you are from the 

 orchard which was picked out by the 

 Fruit Growers of this section, at a 

 meeting called by Mr. A. H. Petitt, 

 three years ago, to select an orchard for 

 experimenting on with spraying. These 

 experiments have now been carried on 

 for three years, the last two years under 

 the superintendence of Mr. Wm. Orr. 

 The same row of trees have been sprayed 

 each year, and with very beneficial re- 



and Spys in the sprayed row, and I have 

 had three good crops in succession off 

 them all, except the Baldwins which have 

 had two crops in the three years. There 

 are 400 trees in the orchard nearly all 

 Baldwins, Greenings and Spys ; I have 

 sprayed all the orchard three times each 

 year, but I find it did not stop all the 

 scab, and now believe it would have 

 paid me well to have put on three more 

 applications. I had as fine a lot of fruit 



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