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river there was a good crop. James Watson, Moore Township, isaid 

 that cherry trees, even the Mayduke and Kentish, will not thrive on 

 the clay soil with us, but on the sandy soil they do well ; and Charles 

 Duncan added, that we are very subject to summer frosts, which 

 usually injure all our frviit crops. Hugh Smith, of Sarnia, remarked 

 that in that vicinity, what was usually called the Kentish Cherry grew^ 

 freely from suckers, was hardy and productive. 



Inquiry was made coucerniiig the borer in the peach tree, but it 

 did not seem to prevail to any serious extent in that vicinity. W. 

 McK. Eoss, of Chatham, complained that it was very bad there, and 

 that- he had suffered severely from tliem. He had also found a snap- 

 ping or click beetle, brown, and about half an inch long, laying eggs in 

 crevices of the bark near the collar of liis peach trees. W. Saunders, 

 London, replied that the larva? of the click beetles do not bore into 

 living trees, hence no danger was to be apprehended to the peach trees 

 from this source. The ^geria Exitiosa, which bores our peach trees, 

 looks very like a slender wasp, with a steel-blue body, and in the 

 female the abdomen is marked with a broad orange-colored belt. She 

 lays her eggs upon the tree at the collar, which hatch out and bore into 

 the soft bark at the surface of the ground. Driving nails into peach 

 trees lias no effect upon the borer, nor will boring holes into plum trees 

 and filling them with sulphur have any tendency to keep away the 

 Curculio. John Bartlett, Warwick, inquired about the Utah Hybrid 

 Cherry ; to which James Dougall, of Windsor, replied that it is not a 

 cherry, it is more nearly allied to the plum, it is only a small bush' 

 and the fruit is Avorthless. 



On the best remedy for the Curculio, the weight of opinion seemed 

 to be that, while in a small yard of plum trees chickens might answer 

 a very good purpose, in larger orchards the best, most convenient, most 

 expeditious, and least troublesome method, was that of jarring the trees 

 and catchino; the Curculio on a cotton sheet. 



Hugh Smith, Sarnia, illustrated his method of changing dwarf trees 

 to standards, by planting a seedling at the foot of the tree, and inserting 

 the top under the bark, thus forming a connection between the tree 

 and the earth through the young seedling. 



It being asked what kinds of trees were best suited for shelter, 

 Messrs. Arnold, Beadle, Saunders, and Dougall mentioned the Norway 

 Spruce as being one of the most desirable^ it being easily tranBplanted> 



