THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



fore expect a vast improvement in our 

 returns this season. 



Dishonest packing is so crying an 

 evil that our association must not let it 

 drop until the evil has been done away. 

 The subject will be again debated at our 

 next meeting, which will be held at 

 Whitby, next December. The Superin- 

 tendent of the Government Cold Storage 

 building at Calgary, last year, bought a 

 barrel of Canadian apples for himself, 

 and found two rows of good apples at 

 each end of the barrel, and the rest 

 made up of windfalls and other rubbish. 



Saunders is the name of a new seed- 

 ling gooseberry, originated by Dr. Saund- 

 ers, Ottawa, the best of quite a number 

 of his hybrids. A cut of the gooseberry 

 appears in the report of the Horticul- 

 turist for 1898 and it is described as 

 follows : Bush, a vigorous grower and 

 a moderate bearer ; fruit, very large, 

 nearly round, sometime slightly oval } 

 brownish-red, smooth; pulp sweet, 

 sprightly and of fine flavor ; quality very 

 good Ripe 22nd of July. Free from 

 mildew. Our readers may secure this 

 report by writing (postage free) to W. 

 T. Macoun, Horticulturist, Central Ex- 

 perimental Farm, Ottawa. 



The programme of the meeting of 

 the American Pomological Society at 

 Philadelphia, last September, showed a 

 feast of good things. The following 

 are a few of the papers and writers : 

 " Nomenclature of Systematic Pomol- 

 ogy," Prof. Waugh, Burlington, Vt; 

 " Origin and Development of Buds in 

 certain fruit plants," Prof. Lazenby, 

 Columbus, O. ; "Relations of Cold to the 

 Flower buds of the Peach," Prof. Whitten, 

 Columbia, Mo.; "The Blue Berry, its 

 Past, Present and Future," Prof. Mun- 

 son, Maine ; " Systematic Plant Breed- 



ing," Herbert J. Webber, U. S. Depart 

 ment of Agriculture ; " Evils Attendant 

 on Providing Methods of Marketing," 

 J. W. Kerr, Denton, Md.; " Relation of 

 Commercial Fertilizers and SoilingCrops 

 to Fruit Culture," H. E. Vandcman, 

 Parksley, Va ; " Improvement of Ameri- 

 can Grapes," Prof. Beach, Seneca, N.Y.; 

 " American Fruits for America," Prof. 

 E. S. Goff, Madison, Wis. 



San Jose Scale. — We trust the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Toronto, may 

 be sustained by fruit growers generally 

 in their efforts to clear the country of 

 this pest, while the infested area is 

 confined to a few square miles which is 

 definitely known to the inspector. Let 

 every tree and bush in that area be des- 

 troyed, at whatever cost, rather than 

 allow it to spread. 



Thomas F. Rivers, the eminent hor- 

 ticulturist, of Sawbridgeworth, Herts, 

 England, died August 17th. We know 

 him in Ontario as the originator of the 

 Early Rivers peach, Czar and Grand 

 Duke plums and many other fruits 

 Mr. Rivers was the recipient of the 

 Victorian Medal from the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society, and is widely known as 

 a contributor to the horticultural press. 



The Bing Cherry is reported in 

 the Northwest Horticulturist as being 

 most successful in the Puget Sound dis- 

 trict, Washington. Trees in an orchard 

 at Buena yielded 60 lbs. this season. 



Legal small fruit packages have 

 been adopted in New York State ; 

 fruits are to be sold by the standard of 

 a quart package, containing even full 

 67 cubic inches ; the fruit package 

 therefore being 33^ and the half pint 

 16^ cubic inches. Any package of 

 less capacity must be plainly marked 



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