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THE CANADIAN nORTlCCLTURIST. 



MASSON'S HIGH-GRADE POTASH 

 FERTILIZER. 



The New York Agricultural Expe- 

 riment Station reports that on the 

 18th of June there was taken from a 

 package of 350 pounds of this fertilizer 

 a samj)le which on analysis was found 

 to contain as follows : Available ])hos- 

 phoric acid, Sy^ij pounds in a ton ; 

 Potash, 0^'^% of a pound in a ton ; 

 Lime, 143 pounds ; and Moisture 

 564^°^ pounds in a ton ; and to be 

 worth $1.52 per ton. The manufac- 

 turers sell it at 830 per ton. 



AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Our readers will remember that this 

 Society meets at Grand Rapids, Michi- 

 gan, on the 9th of September, at ten 

 o'clock a. m. We are informed that 

 there will be a large attendance of pro- 

 minent horticulturists and many fine 

 collections of fruit. Members of the 

 Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario 

 who intend to be present should write 

 at once to Prof. W. J. Beall, Agricul- 

 tural College, Michigan, for blanks and 

 instructions to secure railway commu- 

 tation i-ates ; and to D. W. Beadle, 

 St. Catharines, for delegates' certificate. 



"MONEY IN POTATOES" 



Is the title of a very interesting little 

 book of fifty pages, published by the 

 Franklin News Company of Philadel- 

 phia. The author treats of the soils 

 to be prefeiTed, manures to be used, 

 preparation of the soil, selection of the 

 seed, cutting the seed, planting, culti- 

 Tating, harvesting, marketing and stor- 

 ing. Our author prefers the nearly 

 level system of culture, doing the hill- 

 ing with the outside teeth of the culti- 

 vator. He also prefers to plant whole 

 potatoes, weighing about four ounces, 

 especially in the case of the early 

 varieties, which have been carefully 

 selected for symmetry of form. He 



believes in pedigree potatoes, and that 

 by his methods a field crop of four 

 hundred bushels to the acre can be 

 grown in favorable seasons. We com- 

 mend the book to the careful attention 

 of our intelliijent cultivators. 



THE HANSELL RASPBERRY. 



On the fourteenth of last July we 

 made an examination of our Hansell 

 Raspberry plants and found a very 

 small crop indeed. There was some 

 ripe fruit to be found by careful search- 

 ing, while the Brandywine near by 

 was laden with ripe fruit. In point 

 of quality we found nothing in the 

 Hansell superior to the Brandywine, 

 while in fruit production it was very 

 for behind. Our soil is a sandy loam. 

 It may be that the Hansell requires a 

 stronger soil, certainly its performance 

 in this is not at all satisfactorv. 



MANURE FOR FRUIT TREES. 



Animal m:\nures are not what is 

 wanted for fruit ti-ees, including grape- 

 vines and berries. We have known 

 prolific grape-vines to bear more fruit, 

 but at an expense of quality, where the 

 contents of the barn-yard were freely 

 used by manuring. We have always 

 found the best success when leaves, the 

 weedings of the garden and forest mold, 

 have been freely combined. These 

 seem to contain the difi'erent materials, 

 in proportion, that is, the organic, 

 the carbonaceous, and the nitrogenous ; 

 the mineral needs to be supplied, 

 and nothing does this so satisfactorily 

 as wood ashes. It supplies largely 

 potash, which is needed. The best 

 success, and it has been fully achieved, 

 which fruit growers ever attained, was 

 bv applying a coat of leaves in the fall, 

 worked into the soil in the spring, fol- 

 lowed by weedings from the garden, 

 clippings of the vines, with other veg- 

 etable refuse, as a mulch, sprinkled 



