THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



Fig. 1609. — Apple Maggot 



from 1600 to over 12,000. When hens 

 were penned under the trees, they work 

 ed faithfully and seemed to get enough 

 food from the ground to sustain them 

 during three or four days. It appeared 

 as if few of the maggots were likely to 

 be overlooked by the hens. It is pro- 

 bable that the apple maggots remain in 

 the pupa state in the soil beneath the 

 trees in that latitude from the time 

 they leave the apple in the fall until the 



following spring, so that confining 

 poultry in the orchard in the fall is the 

 most practical treatment for this pest 

 that can now be suggested. It is impor- 

 tant to ascertain the distribution of the 

 pest, and all who observe it will please 

 report to us. Carefully feeding all wind- 

 falls or refuse apples to hogs or the 

 stock is advised. Sheep, hogs and 

 poultry should be kept in the orchard 

 after haying, if not before. Clean cul- 

 ture is also advised. Spraying is no 

 protection against this pest, because it 

 does not affect the fly that lays the egg. 

 — Am. Agri. 



FAMEUSE APPLE. 



(7^>i T a recent meeting of the Mon. 

 // \ \ treal Horticultural Society, of 



/JT~1a which Mr - w - w - Dunlo P has 



been for many years the 

 esteemed Secretary, the following tri- 

 bute was given to this famous apple. 



I once heard a remark by that veteran 

 pomologist, Dr. T. H. Hoskins, of Ver- 

 mont, which struck me forcibly at the 

 time. He said : ' I believe there are 

 about three hundred kinds of Fameuse.' 

 This, of course, was said in joke, but ex- 

 pressed the fact that numerous apples 

 of Fameuse type were known to exist on 

 the island and vicinity. We know of 

 the Red Fameuse, the Fameuse, there 

 is also the Striped Fameuse (Fameuse 

 barre), of which no doubt the Snow 

 apple of Ontario is a degenerate off- 

 spring There are the Fameuse Sucre, 

 and many seedlings which closely 

 resemble the parent. 



The Canada Baldwin, Decarie and 

 Mcintosh Red are very near relations of 

 La Fameuse. The Red Fameuse is, no 

 doubt, the handsomest, the most pro- 

 ductive, successful and profitable apple 



of this province. It excels all other 

 varieties for quality, and since the advent 

 of spraying with Bordeaux mixture we 

 can grow as fine specimens as in years 

 gone by. 



The Fameuse has been known pro- 

 bably over two hundred years. Trees 

 were sent to England, and the fruit ex- 

 hibited there at the Horticultural Society 

 exhibitions as early as 1 818. It is a 

 common fallacy to suppose that Fam- 

 euse is dying out. Let me tell you that 

 as long as a variety is profitable it will 

 not die out. For example, the Ribston 

 Pippin of England, produced from seed 

 brought from Normandy, it is said, about 

 1689, is yet one of the most popular 

 apples of England, and to day is very 

 largely grown in Nova Scotia and On- 

 tario. 



The American Baldwin was intro- 

 duced about 1750, the Rhode Island 

 Greening about 1765. The Roxbury 

 Russet originated about 1649. All of 

 the above mentioned are favorite market 

 varieties of the present day. 



The Fameuse has within th,e last three 

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