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CANADIAN HORTICUL TURIST. 



managers. Some such heads as the 

 following might be used among others, 

 viz : — Nomenclature, Coloring, Flavor, 

 Hardiness, Productiveness, Shipping 

 Quality, Commercial Value, and eacli 

 plate of specimens given points under 

 each head varying from 1 to 5 accord- 

 ing to merit. The sum total of points 

 given would then decide the awards. 



Hardy Apples. — It was no wonder 

 that at our Ottawa meeting with the 

 thermometer registering from 30° to 

 40° below zero, our attention was turned 

 largely to such questions as Winter pro- 

 tection, varieties of fruits and orna- 

 mental shrubs adapted to the cold north, 

 etc., notwithstanding the gentle remon- 

 strances of some of our friends of the 

 Experimental Farm who hope to be 

 able to test for us every known variety 

 of fruit 



Under the head of hardy fruits Mr. 

 Charles Gibb, of Abbotsford, P.Q., sug- 

 gested the following six as his selection 

 of the best liardy varieties of apples : — 

 (1) Yellow Transparent; 2) Golden 

 White; (3) Easpberry; (4) Titovka ; 

 (5) Longfield ; and (6) Arabka. 



Mr. A. A. Wright, of Renfrew gave 

 the following as his selection of five 

 varieties for Carleton County, viz : — 

 (1) Yellow Transparent ; (2) Duchess ; 

 (3) Alexander ; (4) Scott's Winter, and 

 (5) Wealthy. 



Spraying Insecticides. — So general 

 has this custom become that it no 

 longer seems necessary for us to em 

 phasize its importance. The cherry and 

 plum trees are sprayed to protect them 

 from the curculio, the apple trees to 

 protect the young fruit from the cod- 

 ling moth and the leaves from the 

 canker worm and the tent caterpillar, 

 and the potato patch to destroy the 

 potato bug ; and for all these the much 

 tested Paris green and water is found 

 equally effective. Many recommend 

 half a pound to iifty gallons of water, 

 but in our experience of its use on a 

 large scale at Maplehurst, this is much 



more than should be used. One quarter 

 of a pound to fifty gallons of water is 

 quite as effectual, and much less injuri- 

 ous to the foliage. Some have ex- 

 pressed a fear lest the poison might in 

 some way find its way into the interior 

 of the apple, but the fear is quite 

 groundless. Both this and London 

 purple are minerals, and not so ab- 

 sorbed, but washed off by the first rain. 

 The spraying pump is found equally 

 useful in the currant and gooseberry 

 plantation, where tlie sawflies may 

 quickly be disposed of by a careful 

 spraying of the bushes with powdered 

 hellebore and water, at the rate of one 

 ounce to two gallons of water. 



For the aphis on the cherry, the 

 kerosene emulsion is perhaps the most 

 effective remedy. It may be made in 

 several ways, of which the following is 

 a goud one, viz : — Dissolve half a pound 

 of common soap in one gallon of boiling 

 water, and then add two gallons of 

 kerosene, churning until well emulsi- 

 fied. Then for use add ten parts of 

 water. This also may be applied with 

 the ever useful spraying jiurap. 



We would also remind our readers of 

 the hyposulphite of soda as a remedy 

 for the apple scab. It may be applied 

 to the young fruit along with the Paris 

 green, one pound of hyposulphite being 

 use to every ten gallons of water. 

 Those kinds which are especially sub- 

 ject to scab should be experimented 

 with most carefully, and the results 

 made public through this journal. That 

 it is useful has been proved, but that it 

 is an effectual remedy has yet to be 

 proved. 



The Wild Goose Plum. 



This plum is the Chickasaw type, and 

 grows naturally in great abundance in 

 the favorable situations in the Soutli 

 and West. According to t\\Q American 

 Garden^ Mr. J. R. Hawkins, of Orange 

 Co., N. Y. has had most favorable ex- 

 perience in the cultivation of this vari- 



