THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



that it firmly grips the pot, which may 

 thus be safely suspended in any part of 

 the room. Mr. Myles writes : — I send 

 you a neat little device to attach to 

 standard pots for the purpose of hanging 

 them up. I find it most convenient in 

 my little Conservatory, where I am 

 short of room. 



Novelties. — We have an inquiry 

 where in Canada to buy trees of Apples 

 of Commerce, Champion, Delicious, 

 Senator, etc. No, and we hope no Can- 

 adian nursery will attempt to sell such 

 untested novelties in Canada, until they 

 have been fruited in our country. These 

 varieties are boomed in the catalogue of 

 Stark Bros, of Louisiana, and of course 

 there are always persons waiting to be 

 caught with humbugs. 



A State Board of Entomology 

 has been established in Georgia, con- 

 sisting of the Commission, the President 

 of the State Horticultural Society, and 

 the President of the State Agricultural 

 Society. A State Entomologist has been 

 engaged and all Nursery goods are al- 

 lowed to be delivered by any trans- 

 portation company, without a certificate 

 of inspection. 



The Best Spray Pump. —We are con- 

 stantly asked " which is the best Spray 

 Pump." Each of the firms advertising 

 with us are first class, and each is so 

 continually improving his pump, that 

 now one, now another, might score 

 the highest number of points. 



The Gibson Strawberry. — A new 

 berry originated on the farm of J. H. 

 Gibson, Marlborough, N.Y. Claimed 

 to be very uniform in size, firm, mild in 

 flavor, bright crimson in color ; vines 

 very productive. 



San Jqse Scale. — We have received 

 several inquiries from subscribers to 

 know whether any orchards or nurseries 

 in Ontario are affected with this insect. 

 In reply, we may state that about three 

 years ago a committee from our As- 

 sociation found an orchard near the 

 border badly infested. Entomologists 

 were called in and great pressure was 

 brought to bear upon the Government 

 to prohibit the importation of nursery 

 stock from the United States, and to 

 have the infested trees destroyed. In 

 response, the Dominion passed an Act 

 preventing the importation of Nursery 

 Stock altogether, and the Province an 

 Act providing for the destruction of all 

 infested trees. On investigation it was 

 found that a few lots of the Nursery 

 stock imported during the last five years 

 were infested with scale, and some of it 

 had been handled by Canadian Nursery- 

 men. Careful searching enabled the 

 inspector, Mr. Geo. E. Fisher, of Bur- 

 lington, to trace this stock to the 

 orchards in which it was planted, and 

 his work is being continued on into the 

 year 1899, for the purpose of utterly 

 destroying such trees. Our Nursery 

 men are all wide awake to the danger, 

 and have had their Nurseries carefully 

 inspected ; and so far as we know every 

 Canadian Nursery at the present time 

 is free from this scale. 



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