The Canadian Horticulturist. 173 



ST. THOMAS NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



T a meeting of the Western New York Horticultural Society 

 Mr. Barry, the President, is reported as saying that the 

 Experiment Stations had proved that spraying for the 

 plum curculio was of no advantage. Is Mr. Barry correct ? 

 If so, we may as well lay away our spraying pumps and 

 provide sheets and rubber mallets, and go for the curculio 

 in the good old way. I had in some way formed the 

 opinion that to spray plum trees was the proper thing to 

 do, and had my plans all laid for the summer campaign. 

 Mr. Barry also said that it had been shown that seventy per cent, of the feed 

 values could be saved and returned in manure. I would like to know how this 

 is done Perhaps, Mr. Editor, you can give me and others some light on these 

 two points. 



I see that Mr. Bunbury, of Oakville, would like to have the duty removed 

 from spraying pumps ; just like some people, they are never satisfied. Don't he 

 know that raw sugar is free and water and air ; the latter can come in from all 

 quarters perfectly free while we might reasonably expect to have a duty placed 

 on all but the north wind, that being the only wind produced on Canadian soil ; 

 and what right has he to want anything better than is made in Canada ? I hap- 

 pened to want some digging spades this spring, that are not made in Canada, so 

 I had to pay forty-one cents each duty on them. Serves me right, I should not 

 crave improved tools. 



Sweet Peas. — I had the best success with sweet peas last year I ever had, 

 and I'll tell you how I managed it : After I forked over my asparagus bed in 

 March, I planted a row of sweet peas three inches deep between two rows of 

 asparagus ; the row was thirty feet long. After they were well up I stretched 

 eighteen inch wire netting along the row, with a stake at each end and one in 

 the middle. This served them to run on until the 20th of June, when we quit 

 cutting asparagus. The asparagus grew up rapidly and carried the peas up 

 with them until they were five feet high. We had flowers in abundance for our- 

 selves and for the neighbors, and they continued to bloom until long after frost 

 came. I want some others to try this plan and see if they are not successful. 



St. Thomas, Out. A. W. Graham. 



The treatment advised for the cherry consists in making two or three appli- 

 cations of Paris green, two ounces to fifty gallons of water. 



Peach trees and American varieties of plums have very tender foliage, and 

 must be treated with very weak mixtures, if at all. 



