THE OANALHAX HOKTICULTLTRlHr. 



tlioy liad slni)j)e(l the leaves euiupleLely oil IVoin sidiie two or ihree 

 liuiulroil of his apple trees — ^they <H<1 tlieiv work early in Spring, and 

 disappeared abont tlie 15th of Jmie. Ife had read that syringing the 

 trees with a mixture of Paris Green and water was complete destniction 

 to the woi-ms. Mr. Woolverton, of Grimsby, had suftered severely 

 from the Ganker Worms, and had tried several means of preventing 

 their ravages. He had tied bandages art/und the trunks of the trees 

 and smeared them with pitch tar, and fV>nnd this a very easy and 

 successful method of destroying the female moths. The tar must be 

 renewed as often as it becomes hard, or the moths will crawl over 

 it. Last year he had applied Paris Green in water with a garden 

 engine, and found that also very beneficial. This must be done very 

 early in the season, as sor>n as the buds burst, to be effectual. He had 

 also tried fall ploughing of his orchard in the end of Octo])er, and 

 thought this also had been beneficial, by lessening their numbers. Mr. 

 Smith, of Glanford, suggested that a mixture of castor oil and resin, 

 — such as is used in making the sticky fly-paper — might be found use- 

 ful, though in cold winter weather it would become too hard. Mo- 

 lasses mixed with tar was also suggested, but rains will wash the 

 molasses out and leave only the tar. D. W. Beadle, of St. Catharines, 

 remarked that the use of some sticky substance, over which the wing- 

 less female moths could not crawl, would be found to be the most certain 

 and convenient method of preventing their ravages. 



P. E. Bucke, of Ottawa, read an able paper on irrigation, which was 

 heard with marked interest and attention. This paper has been handed 

 to the Secretary, and will appear in full in the Annual Keport. 



A. M. Smith, of Drummondville, called attention to the Yellows in 

 peach trees, a disease which has been very destructive to the trees in 

 many places, and was making its appearance in this Province. His 

 views are given more fully in an article on this subject which will be 

 found in this number. 



The meeting proceeded to the consideration of the benefits of shelter 

 to peach orchards, and the trees which are the best to plant for this 

 l)urpose. C. M. Honsberger, of Jordan Station, had planted his peach 

 trees between the rows of apple trees, and let them take their chances, 

 l)ut now, however, had been induced to plant some evergreens on the 

 south-west side for a wind-break, and had set out a roM' of Norway- 

 spruce. W. Haskius, Hamilton, spoke of fifty acres of peach orchard 



