riiK" ca-Vauiax iKjirncuLTL^ur.s'r: 



for 1872, page 5; for 1874, page 4o; and those wlio have only the Re- 

 port for 1877, will find the insect figured in all its stages of existence 

 at page 46 of the entomological part, 



Mr. Arnold further reported that the nioniing session was taken up 

 by the reading of essays, some of them containing much valiv*l)le in- 

 formation. The essays were utjion our])ul)ric roads; gathering, market- 

 ing, and preserving a}:)ples; small fruits; spring flowering shrul)s; the 

 kitchen garden; horticultural botany; roses, aaid weeping or drooping 

 trees. But few fruits were exhibited. A plate of the Colimibia pear 

 was the finest plate of Winter pears he ever saw, judging from the 

 appearance merely,, as no* opportimity was' given him to- test their flavor- 



Eeports from different parts of the State shewed that an immense 

 revenue is derive 1 from the s.ile o-f aj)ples. Niagara County alone 

 reported sales amounting to three hundred thousand dollars. Other- 

 counties rejxjrte 1 as high as fi.ve hundred thousand dollar worth of 

 apples, ],)oside."? large sams for pears and other fniits. 



Mr. Arnold close 1 his lieport by expressing tlie ]\<yp& that the day- 

 was not far distant when rsports similar to. thase made to- the Westerns 

 New York Society, will come from many countie& in Ontario, where 

 both soil and climate ai^e certainly equal to any portion of the State of 

 New York ; and ventured the prediction that in view of our already 

 great and yearly increasing facilities for. shipping, the growing of first 

 class fruit in Ontario must be profitable for many years to come. 



Tlie sul)ject ©f fruit statistics, brought bef«)re Uie meeting ])y Mr- 

 Arnold's closing remarks, was l)rietiy discusvsed, and Messrs. Burnet,. 

 l^)eadle and Bracke were appointed a Committee to interview the Govern- 

 ment, and devise means for oljta.ining reliable statistics fi>f the quantity 

 and value of the fvuits raised and exported fi-om- Ontario. A resolution 

 was also passed requesting the railways tt* incorporate in their annual 

 raport on the crops, the condition and extent of the apple crop. 



The discussion now turned upon the Canker Worm — an insect pest 

 that is doing considerable dan^age to- apple orchards in some sections- 

 A full description of the Canker Worm, and engravings shewing the 

 insect in all its stages, from the egg to the moth, will be found in the 

 entomological part of the Report for 1870, at page 86; also a very full 

 article on the Canker AYorms in the same part of the lieport for 1875, 

 page 25. Mr. Bowman, of Hamilton, said that for the past two years. 



