The Canadian Horticulturist. 



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WESTERN NEW YORK FRUIT GROWERS.— I. 



HE writer was in attendance at the recent meeting 

 J of this, in many respects, the most important 

 Society of its kind on the continent. The fruit- 

 growers of the western part of New York State 

 have always taken the lead in their favorite industry, 

 and the discussions at their meetings are always 

 inspiring and profitable to us in Southern Ontario, 

 where the conditions are so similar to theirs. 



The meeting was ably presided over by Mr. 

 W. C. Barry, son of the late Patrick Barry, who so 

 long and so ably filled this position. Unfortu- 

 nately, we were too late to hear the President's opening address ; suffice it to 

 say he is a worthy successor to his father, an educated man, being a graduate of 

 Rochester University, and is an excellent French and German scholar, by means 

 of an extended course in Germany. 



Peach Culture. 

 An important address was given before the Society by the Hon. J. H. Hale, 

 of South Glastonbury, on " Peach Culture." Mr. Hale has made himself famous 

 throughout the whole of the United States by his enterprise in this industry. 

 Early in his experience he learned that 

 where peach trees were fertilized with 

 stable manure they nearly always became 

 subject to the yellows, and that where 

 commercial fertilizers were used there was 

 much better success. In the application 

 of these he had found that the less nitro- 

 gen and more potash that is applied to 

 the soil the more healthful are the trees. 

 During the last seven years an orchard of 

 thirty-five acres has yielded him over sixty 

 thousand dollars worth of fruit. This was 

 a source of no small gratification, in view 

 of the great amount of harsh criticism 

 that was showered upon him concerning 

 his apparently reckless adventure, in 

 planting so freely of fruit of uncertain 

 yield. 



In Connecticut, as with us, the greatest 

 difficulty is the winter-killing of the buds. 



510— W. C. Barrt 



