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well fertilized, will astonish the grower 

 with the size of berry and amount of 

 fruit. 



6. Phipj)s will do to fertilize the 

 Manchester. Wants plenty of room ; 

 it makes large stools, often a dozen or 

 more fruit-stems. 



7. Glendale, late, plenty of fruit. 

 Plant will care for itself. 



8. Cumberland Triumph. No better 

 shipper than the Manchester, yet I ad- 

 mire it. It is such a noble berry, and 

 perfect shape and plenty of them. This 

 will be the fifth year in the same bed 

 with me, and if the spring frost does 

 not take the blossoms, I expect a boun- 

 tiful crop. 



9. Sucker State. Good grower and 

 bearer. One of the safest to plant. 



These ought to be in every collec- 

 tion. I can recommend them with all 

 confidence to be what all " catalogues " 

 say of them. 



There are many more I may write 

 about again if spared. 



Fish Creek, Feb. 17. JoHX Little. 



APPLE TREE BORER. 



Mr. Editor, — In the Horticulturist 

 of February, H. asks how to keep the 

 borer from apple trees. Last midsum- 

 mer one of my best bearing crab trees 

 suddenly withered and died. On ex- 

 amination I found the borer had com- 

 pletely girdled it, and commenced work 

 on four others. In the spring I had 

 driven the caterpillar from my currant 

 and gooseberry bushes and saved a good 

 crop by mixing about two tablespoons- 

 ful of paris green in a pail of air-slacked 

 lime and shaking the mixture twice 

 over the bushes before tlie fruit had 

 fully formed. The Paris green could 

 not be applied in this way on the trees ; 

 the best thing I could think of on hand 

 was a bar of common yellow soap ; dip- 

 ping the end of this in the paris green, 

 and rubbing it on the trees attacked, I 



think I stopped operations of the enemy 

 as no new holes were bored up to the 

 end of the season. 



Yours truly, F. F. 



Cape Elizabeth, Lake Rosseau, 

 Muskoka, Mar. 13, '85. 



MISTAKES OF FRUIT GROWERS. 



(By Peter Pruninff Knife.) 



There is probably no branch of hus- 

 bandry in which there ai^e greater mis- 

 takes made from want of knowledge 

 and experience than in fruit growing : 

 and I think I may assert without fear 

 of contradiction that fifty per cent, of 

 all the fruit trees and plants ever 

 planted in this Province have never 

 produced fruit enough to pay for them- 

 selves, let alone the cost of planting, 

 use of the ground, cultivation, &c., and 

 this percentage would be largely in- 

 creased if confined to the northern por- 

 tions of the country. This may seem 

 like an extravagant statement by those 

 living in fruit sections, but experienced 

 fruit growers even there will bear me 

 out in this assertion by their own ex- 

 perience. I propose to point out a few 

 causes of this great loss to farmers and 

 fruit growers (for it is a loss which, if 

 correctly estimated, would aggregate 

 millions of dollars), and also to suggest 

 some remedies. 



The 1st mistake of planters is in 

 selection of soil and location. Farmers 

 in planting an orchard are generally 

 anxious to get it near the house, and in 

 doing this generally put it in some cor- 

 ner near by without stopping to con- 

 sider that the land may be too low or 

 wet, or perhaps too high and exposed 

 for tender varieties of fruit. Trees 

 will not thrive, as it is sometimes ex- 

 pressed, " with wet feet," nor will ten- 

 der vax'ieties thrive when exposed to 

 severe cold winds. 



Remedy. — Seek good, dry, sheltered 

 locations for fruit trees and protect the 

 small fruits by mulching in winter. 



