Canabian 



Iborticulturiet 



f^UBLISHED AT yOP^NTO AND Gl\I.MSBY, OnT- 



OFFICE ADDRESS— GRIMSBY, ONT. 



VOL. X.] 



AUGUST, 1887. 



[No. 8. 



UP WITH THE BREEZE. 



" Up with the breeze, the birds and the bees," 



I heard a boy sing in the morn ; 

 And his hoe kept time with the merry rhyme, 



As he cheerfully hoed the corn. 



Down went the weeds and the noxious seeds. 



And up went the emerald corn ; 

 And I looked with deliirht at the gladsome sight, 



The work of the early morn. 



The broad green leaves turned to golden sheaves, 



And the field of beautiful corn 

 Was gathered and sold, thus turned into gold — 



The work of the early morn. 



Then up ■\\'ith the breeze, the birds and the bees, 

 If }0U wish to grow wealthy and wise. 



And merrily sing like birds in spring, 

 AVTiile your work as merrily flies. 



The poor sleepy head, who lingers in bed. 



Will have more sorrows than joys ; 

 And when he grows old will be hungry and cold, 



So keep " wide-awake," my hoys. 



— Uiiknoicn Exchange. 



J^nitts. 



fANADIAN" APPLES promise to 

 be iinusiially fine in quality this 

 year. The dreaded apple spot, 

 which had almost driven us into des- 

 pair, has suddenly vanished, and every 

 variety, not excepting the Fameuse and 

 the Early Harvest, is thus far perfectly 



clean. Nor is this merely local. Mr. 

 John Croil, of Aultsville, who was 

 about to cut down or ehse top-graft his 

 large orchard of Fameuse, says his 

 apples are, so far this season, perfectly 

 clean. Reports from Michigan, where 

 the spot had been equally devastating, 

 show the same encouraging state of 

 things We can well afford to have 

 experimented in vain with hyposul- 

 phite of soda, in view of the absence 

 of the disease which needs the remedy. 

 In quality, the apple crop promises 

 to be light, ^except in Michigan, New 

 York and Ontario ; and in these great 

 apple regions, only a moderate ci'op is 

 expected. The Baldwin, which is so 

 widely planted, still continues to be 

 barren, or neai'ly so ; and the Roxbury 

 Russet has a light crop ; but the 

 Greening, King, Spy, and some other 

 good sorts, are fairly well ladeu with 

 an extra good quality of fruit. 



