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sufferings and losses in consequence of 

 their loyalty. 



Mr. Robert Ball from a very early 

 age commenced fruit farming, and was 

 the fii-st Canadian from the Niagara 

 district, if not from Canada itself, who 

 shipped apples to Glasgow, where his 

 brand, a beaver, is well known and ap- 

 preciated. " Full measure and running 

 over," and sound fruit in the centre of 

 the barrel as well as at the head and 

 the tail, being the characteristic of his 

 dealings. Latterly Mr. Ball has more 

 especially given his attention to peach 

 orcharding, and at the time of his death 

 he had some fifty acres of peaches just 

 coming into full bearing, in addition to 

 a few hundred trees of many varieties, 

 upon which he may be said to have 

 experimented for the last fourteen years. 

 Mr. Ball was a keen observer, an inde- 

 fatigable worker, and a good judge of 

 all matters connected with fruit raising 



and horticultural work generally, and 

 his opinion, always generously and 

 genially given, was valued far and near 

 by his neighbors. Besides his peach 

 orchards, of which he was justly proud, 

 he owned ten acres of grapes, forty 

 acres of apples in full bearing, five acres 

 of raspberries, besides as many aci'es of 

 pears, quinces, plums and cherries. 



This tells of Mr. Ball as the success- 

 ful orchardist, but he was far, far more 

 than this, he was a most genial neigh- 

 bor, an intelligent and upright magis- 

 trate, an elder in his church —"Pres- 

 byterian," a faithful Sabbath School 

 teacher, faithful for forty years to his 

 Bible Class at Virgil (a village joining 

 his estate), a wise, kind and valued 

 friend to " Our "Western Home," Nia- 

 gara, a constant visitor of the sick and 

 needy. In short, one upon whose tomb 

 might very justly be wi-itten, " O man, 

 greatly beloved." — Contributed. 



Question SratDer. 



This department i« intended as an open one to every 

 reader of the "Horticulturist" to send in either 

 qxtestions or ansivers. Often a reader will be able to 

 ansiver a question which has been left unantncered, 

 or only partially answered by us. For convenience 

 of reference the questions are numbered, and any 

 one replying or referring to any question ivill 

 please mention the number of it. 



65. Paris Green for Curculio. — Is Paris 

 Green a 2yroper remedy for the plum Cur- 

 culio. Having read somewhere of its 

 use as such, I sprayed my trees three 

 times within two weeks, beginning as 

 the blossoms were falling off, a table- 

 spoonful to a pail of water, and about 

 one-third of the fruit seemed to shrivel 

 and drop off, and a number of the 

 leaves turned yellow. TFaS the mixture 

 too strong, or is there any danger of 

 the fruit being poisonous to eat when 

 ripe. WM. E. BROWN, Blyth, Ont. 



The weight of evidence seems to 

 prove that spraying plum trees with 



paris green, if done early enough, that 

 Ls, about the time of the falling of the 

 petals, is one of the simplest means of 

 saving the plums from the ravages of 

 the little Turk. But you used the 

 poison altogether too freely, and that 

 accounts for the dropping of the fruit. 

 A teaspoonful to a twelve-quart pail of 

 water is enough of the poison. 



66. Ladders. — Where can I get a long 

 extension ladder, or other apparatus for 

 picking f'uit f I lost a lot of cherries 

 for want of a long enough ladder. 



W. F. BURTON, Hamilton. 



We have cherry trees twenty-five 

 and thirty feet in height, and have tried 

 extension laddei-s, such as are used in 

 putting up lightning rods, and other 

 apparatus, but have never used any- 

 tliing moi'e satisfactory than the ordi- 



