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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



The Act Regarding Plum Knot and Villous. — At the meeting at 

 Brantford, the present Act with regard to the diseases of fruit trees was discussed, 

 and the conclusion was arrived at, that some of the provisions render the Act a 

 dead letter ; for instance, the article requiring fifty ratepayers to sign a petition, 

 before the council is obliged to appoint an inspector of diseased trees. This is 

 a task which few will undertake. Five names to such a petition is surely 

 sufficient. Then the inspector, after his appointment, cannot act except he has 

 a written complaint from some person, calling his attention to the existence of 

 yellows or black knot. Now this is another hindrance to successful working of 

 the Act. Surely an inspector has eyes of his own, and he should be empowered 

 to act, without being asked, whenever he sees or hears of yellows existing in his 

 district. But what if the local inspector will not act, when called upon, for fear 

 of displeasing his neighbors ? How can we then enforce the destruction of the 

 diseased trees. The remedy perhaps is to have a provincial inspector, whose 

 duties it shall be to enforce the provisions of the Act in any locality where, 

 owing to the dilatoriness of the local inspector, he is called upon to enforce it 



The committee charged with this matter, will call upon the Minister of 

 Agriculture at an early date, and draw his attention to the much-needed amend- 

 ments to the Act, as outlined by the Association. 



Our enegetic contemporary, the American Garden, opens the January 

 number with a sketch of John Burrough's, the author of " Pepacton" a collection 

 of essays on rural scenes, of great literary excellence. A vignette of him and 

 his favorite dog, heads the article, in which the author, Prof. Bailey, describes 

 Mr. Burroughs as a fruit grower often engaged in the practical work of harvest- 



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