THE CANADIAN HOETICULTUBI8T. 



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USES OF FRUITS. 



. Fruit Eaters and Doctors. — We were 

 struck recently by the remarks of a 

 doctor friend of ours, who said no one 

 thing will do so much to make ]>eople 

 independent of the medical profession 

 as the daily free use of fruit. He had- 

 noticed that those farmers in whose 

 families fruit was regularly and hirgely 

 consumed seldom needed his services. 

 We thought what a pity that every 

 farmer in the land could not be con- 

 vinced of these truths. It is a deplor- 

 able fact that farmers' families do not 

 enjoy that robust health that country 

 air and out- door life, with i)lenty of 

 exercise, should give. — Rural New 

 Yorker. 



ickntific. 



Useful Fungi. — Among the numerous 

 forms of fungus which live upon higher 

 plants (many of which are so detrimen- 

 tal to their hosts) are some, it is now 

 believed, which live with these on 

 terms of mutual assistance. Frank 

 found that the young root-points of 

 some English forest trees, as the beech 

 and the oak, are covered with a coating 

 of fungus (probably belonging to the 

 truffle or allied family), which seems 

 to help in the nutrition of those trees. 

 Another interesting case is that of 

 fungi which live with orchids, and 

 whose mode of propagation has lately 

 been established by Herr Wahrlich. 



To Escape Yellows. — Mr. Hiller, in the 

 Gardener's Monthly, advises planting 

 peach trees that are budded on plum 

 roots, as a means of escaping the Yel- 

 low. He thinks that the roots of old 

 peach trees, that have died of this dis- 

 ease, retain it a long time in the soil, 

 and from them it attacks the newly- 

 planted peach trees. The editor fur- 

 ther contends in favor of the view that 

 the Yellows comes primarily from the 



attack of a fungus — the myceliumi of a 

 species of Agaric — upon the roots of 

 the ))each. If this is the case, plum 

 budded peach trees should escape the 

 disease. 



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We will (jladly give our candid opinion of any books, 

 maoaziiies or catalogues received, especially if they 

 are likely to interest or benefit Canadian fruit 

 growers, but will not insert cut and dried reading 

 notices in fav^r of any publication whatever. 



High Class Fertilizers, manufactured by 

 the Standard Fertilizer and Chemical 

 Co., Smiths Falls, Ont. 



One of the most important questions 

 at present before us as fruit gi'owers. is 

 an abundant supply of suitable fertil- 

 izers for our orchards and gardens. The 

 discovery of those exhaustless phos- 

 phate mines, of which Mr. Buck's arti- 

 cle in the February No. treats, and of 

 extensive stores of kainit (containing 

 potash) in France, all help to encoui'- 

 age our hopes of a plentiful and cheap 

 supply of these essential manures. 



Messrs. Brodie and Harvie offer in 

 their pamphlet a special fruil tree fertil- 

 izer, of which they say about 600 lbs. 

 per acre should be used ; and for a 

 peach orchard about five or six pounds 

 per tree. The guaranteed analysis of 

 this is claimed to be : Ammonia, 2 to 3 

 per cent. ; Phosphoric Acid (soluble and 

 precipitated), 8 to 10 pei- cent. ; Pot- 

 ash (actual), 8 to 10 per cent. ; Mag- 

 nesia, Lime, Soda, &c. The Company 

 claim that their fertilizers are no mys- 

 terious mixtures of nondescript ma- 

 terials, but are manufactured on scien- 

 tific i)riuciples from materials which 

 ai-e open to inspection. 



KEPOtlTS. 



Studies in Practical Agriculture, i)ublishod 



by Cornell University, and for sale by 

 Andrus and Church, Ithaca, N. Y. 

 Price 50 cents. 



