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cause. There is no remedy for it but 

 good spring weather. It is from Pro- 

 vidence. 'Now, sir, November 11, 1884, 

 I shipped a few barrels of the Mcintosh 

 Reds to Glasgow, Scotland. The sales- 

 man sold them at $10 per bai'rel. I 

 told him to let me hear what he thought 

 of them, and how they stood the ship- 

 ment. He stated they were the best 

 apples he had ever eaten, but said they 

 were bruised, and that I should have 

 sent them before they were so ripe or 

 soft. The remainder of my Mcintosh 

 Reds I sold here in these townships for 

 $3 50 per barrel. Cau any other 

 apple compete with this 1 



Allan MoIntosh. 

 Duiulela P. O., Out., Jan., 1885. 



FRUIT IN ALGOMA. 

 Dear Sir, — Please find enclosed one 

 dollar as subscrij)tion to the Canadian 

 Horticulturist. I cannot do without it 

 and the annual report, for after we get 

 more clearing done here I am in hopes 

 that fruits of hardy domestic kinds can 

 be grown. My Wealthy apple, after 

 three years' fine growth, died last spring. 

 The cause Avas, I think, from the in- 

 tense frost of last March, and then a 

 hot sun coming out. The Canadian 

 Baldwin made a fine growth last sum- 

 mer. We had a great crop of wild 

 raspberries, strawberries and blueber- 

 ries, but no cranberries. I will choose 

 the flower seeds this year. 



Yours, with respects, 



W. Warnock. 

 Bliud River, January, 1885. 



RASPBERRY SAW-FLY. 

 The raspberry saw-fly (selandria ruhi) 

 is not a difficult insect to keep in check 

 if noticed in time. It is very incon- 

 spicuous on account of its colour and 

 appearance. A weak mixture of about 

 an ounce of hellebore to a pailfuU of 

 water, syringed onto the plants, will 

 easily destroy the larvae. This shovild 



be done in the beginning and middle of 



June, and is quite safe. 



Yours obediently, 



J. Fletcher, 

 Ottawa, Feb., 1885. Entomologist. 



WILL GARDENING PAY. 



" There is money in fruit growing, 

 a plenty of it, for the skillfiil, thought- 

 ful grower. There are thousands of 

 dollars in strawberries, or raspberries, 

 if rightly grown; but ten acres of either 

 are better then fifty or a hundred slov- 

 enly tended. There is money in melons, 

 in cucumbers, in potatoes, in rhubarb 

 and asparagus, in onions, in almost 

 anything you can raise, if you will only 

 raise a lietter article than anybody else. 

 There is the secret. Men foolishly lie 

 awake o' nights racking their brains to 

 find some new crop that will bring 

 them in a fortune at a dash, instead of 

 studying how to better the crop they 

 already have in hand. 



" As to the business being overdone, 

 it is all a delusion. The horticultural 

 rank and file is not near so crowded as 

 are the professions, into which so many 

 farmer's' sons are continually struggling 

 to enter. You will find a hundred starv- 

 ing lawyers, preachers and doctors to 

 one starving fruit grower. What we 

 need is more system, more thoroughness. 

 The farmer must be more liberal with 

 his land, his live stock, his fruit trees ; 

 must feed them all better ; must feed 

 himself better and his family better, 

 and he will feel better and succeed bet- 

 ter. Tell your readers to stick to the 

 farm." — Farmer and Fruit Grower. 



SEED POTATOES— HOW TO SELECT 

 THEM. 



N. Y. AoRiciii/rDRAL Experiment Station. 



In the fall of 1883 we selected and 

 laid aside for seed the largest and the 

 smallest tubers from the most produc- 

 tive and the least productive hill of ten 

 varieties growing in the Station garden. 



