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tage to him, whether in a home or a 

 foreign market. The practice of brand- 

 ing the head with the name and ad- 

 dress of the grower, is a proper thing, 

 and that which every honest man will 

 willingly do. 



Wliile packing our apples and pears 

 this season we are more than ever con- 

 vinced of the great benefit of spray- 

 ing our orchard with Paris green. Tn 

 some portions inaccessible to the wag- 



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tree always bore knotty fruit previ- 

 ously, but since being treated to Paris 

 green its fruit has been perfect. The 

 JJartlett pear is especially .subject to 

 produce knotty specimens, due to the 

 work of the curculio, and other insects. 

 Indeed, fully half the crop has to be 

 thrown out for seconds on this account. 

 But for two seasons now, we have 

 sprayed them carefully, and as a result, 

 have had comparatively few knotty 



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Fio. 75.— Spraykd Bartlett, ij natiral diamkthj. 



gon, this treatment was neglected, and 

 as a result, an immense crop of Codling 

 moths is being harvested, and innumer- 

 able apples wasted ; while those trees 

 carefully treated are almost free from 

 this mischief-maker. And that is not 

 the only benefit ; indeed, quite as im- 

 portant is the perfection of form of 

 the sprayed fruit. A Duchess apple 



Fio. 76— Usspkaykd Bartlktt, I nati ral hiamlter 



pears. The editor of Tlie Country 

 (j'entleman, in a recent number, gives 

 his experience in spraying Bartlett 

 pears, and it corresponds with our own 

 as given above. We copy outlines of 

 two specimens, showing the effect of 

 the treatment as described above, but 

 with us the disfigurement has averaged 

 greater than is here represented. 



