The Canadian Horticulturist. 9 



OUTLINE OF WORK IN SPRAYING FOR 1893. 



^OUR letter of the 5th instant, asking about spraying for apple scab, 

 etc.. is received. We believe our experiments have shown the 

 Bordeaux mixture to be one of our best fungicides. We used a 

 dilute form of it with good results last season, and would recom- 

 mend your fruit growers to use it, as follows : Ten lbs sulphate 

 copper (blue vitriol) per 100 gal. water, and about the same weight 

 fresh lime or a little less. Dissolve in separate vessels and mix 

 only when ready for use, as it is best if stirred constantly until sprayed on the 

 trees or plants. For apples, spray with the mixture once before bloom after 

 growth starts. Spray once or twice immediately after bloom for codlin moth, 

 adding the necessary amount of Paris green or London purple. Another 

 spraying or two with insecticide added to the Bordeaux mixture, may usually be 

 profitably applied. 



For grapes spray with sulphate copper solution before buds start, using 4 lbs. 

 per 100 gallons water, but no lime. After bloom spray with Bordeaux mixture 

 trees as above, at intervals of ten days to two weeks, until fruit is size of large 

 nuts, when it may be best to use carbonate copper and aqua ammonia solution 

 lest the Bordeaux mixture spot the fruit with the lime and make it appear badly- 

 Our experience of last season demonstrates the value of spraying and confirms 

 our belief, that it has " come to stay." E. S. Goff. 



Horticulturist, Wisconsin Experiment Station. 



The people of this city have at last had a surfeit of Keiffer pears. The 

 numerous orchards that have been planted have been rapidly coming into bear- 

 ing, and the city has been flooded. The Italian fruit vendors, whose stalis 

 occupy every foot of available sidewalk space in eligible localities, and whose 

 carts swarm like locusts in our streets, bought them freely because of their fine 

 appearance, and the public bought them — that is to say, each pear buyer bought 

 one and then hated himself for an hour for thus squandering his nickle. The 

 writer does not believe they will sell for as much as apples five years hence, and 

 he most devoutly hopes the general planting of them in the North will be 

 stopped. In the South, where the finer pears do not flourish, they may be 

 grown with propriety. — Rural New Yorker. 



A few days ago, we went into the markets and bought of a commission 

 merchant 13 baskets (5 pounds) of Catawba grapes at 15 cents per basket. We 

 must confess to a guilty feeling at buying them so cheap. There is mighty little 

 for the grower in a five-pound basket of grapes which sells for 15 cems, out of 

 which freight and commission charges are to be paid. 



