TKE CANADIAN IIOUTICULT-URIST. OV 



strictly speaking, a clingstone. -His Stump the World was .aii excellent 

 IVuit, pure and clear, and very good lor canning. Mr. Woodward said 

 the Sal way was a very late peaoh, ripening two weeks after any others. 

 He had eaten them as late as the middle of December. Mr. Orr had 

 sliortened in his trees on a rich^ strong soil ; it was found ■advantageous 

 wiien the growtii was heavy. The Secretary said that 'shortening in 

 was found a great improvement in the Niagara district It made the 

 fruit larger in size and better. It made -a difference in tke color of 

 the fruit by admitting the sun and air. • He believed tlvat the region 

 of the peach could be extended by growi-Mg needling trees ft'om seed 

 ripened as far north as ipossible. 



The next meeting w-ill be held at Owen Sound, on the 24th of 

 August, 1881. This region is noted for its great crops of plums, and 

 it is hoped that there will be a large attendance of members from a 

 distance, who will receive a most hearty welcome from the members 

 at Owen Sound. 



WOOD ASHES vs. PEAR BLIGHT. 



BY RUSTICUS, CLINTON. 



One of the fi-uits which attains its finest 'development in our 

 favored Huron t'ract is tlie pear. I purchased a bushel of Bartlets on 

 the street here which averaged 9 inches the longer circumference, many 

 of the specimens attaining 12 inches, some even 13^. Other varieties 

 flourish correspondingly. The largest Seckels I have ever seen were 

 from a farmer's garden is. this neigihborhood, and the Flemish Beauties 

 are prodigious. 



Yet this fascinating cultivatixSn has its drawbacks. We are not 

 exempt from the visitations of the 'dreaded blight Some seasons it is 

 rarely seen ; last seasori it was peculiarly prevalent and destructive. 

 This outbreak of the disease most feared by the pear grower seemed 

 to bear out the remark -of Downing, that "tke predisposing cause is to 

 be looked for in the season previous, and that attacks of blight 'may be 

 expected the summer after a sudden and early winter Iwis succeeded a 

 damp and warm autumn." These conditions had been eJ«ictly fulfilled 

 in the late attack of blight. Three-quarters of the preceding October 

 had been summer weather here, the mercury averaging 80° in the 

 shade at noon, and all vegetation showed a disposition to make secoud 



