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THE CANADIAN H0KTICULTURI8T. 



nary ladder made of cedar with hickory 

 rounds. Any carpenter can construct 

 this ladder of any requii-ed length, and 

 two persons, one at the foot and one to 

 raise it, can easily put up such a ladder, 

 even if made twenty-five or thirty feet 

 in length. Mr. George Zimmerman, 

 Jordan, Ont., has a stock of various 

 lengths. 



67. Grape Vine Leaf Hopper. — What is the 

 latest arid most recommerided means of 

 destroying the grape leaf hopfer (E. vi- 

 tis), commonly called "thrijjs," on grape 

 vines ? I have a Delaware which suf- 

 fers hadly from the insect. 



"AMATEUR." 



The Delaware, and varieties of its 

 class, is far more subject to the leaf 

 hopper than the Labruscans, as Con- 

 cord, Niagara, &c. Various remedies 

 have been tried with more or less suc- 

 cess, but owing to its habit of feeding 

 upon the under surface of the leaves, it 

 is routed with extreme difficulty. Puff"- 

 ing upwards pyrethrum powder against 

 the under side of the leaves, with small 

 bellows for the purpose, is quite effect- 

 ive, as also the plan of burning them 

 at night with a burning torch, while 

 one passes ahead beating the vines with 

 a whip. The torch may be made with 

 a basin of sawdust and kerosene, fast- 

 ened on the end of a pole. 



REPLIES TO PREVIOUS QUESTIONS. 



Peaches Under Glass.— In reply to 

 question 54, Mr. S. H. Mitchell, of St. 

 Marys, Ont., sends us some fine 

 samples of Foster and Early Crawfoi-d 

 peaches grown under glass. He 

 writes : — 



In 1884 I ordered of a nurseryman 

 two peach trees, a Crawford and Foster. 

 They were to be short and small, fit 

 for putting in pots to grow as dwarfs 

 in green-house. They came to hand 

 late in April, and to my great disap- 



pointment were large and about six ft. 

 high, with only a few small twigs and 

 buds near their base. I cut them down 

 to about ten inches and planted them 

 in eight inch pots, put them in green 

 house first of May. They grew finely, 

 and as they grew I pinched them into 

 shape, so that in fall the heads were 

 about two feet in diameter. During 

 the winter I set them in shed adjoin- 

 ing boiler pit where they were kept dry 

 and frozen part of the time. I set 

 them in green house about March 25, 

 already buds bursting open and some 

 blossoms — result being fine peaches 

 ripe July 20th. Next season repotted 

 them in twelve inch pots, set them in 

 green house 1st April — result, full of 

 peaches, fruit smaller, ripe last July. 

 This season left them in same pots, set 

 them in green house later, put them in 

 cooler spot, and fed them with liquid 

 manure twice^i'esult, trees full of fine 

 fruit ripe Aug. 20th. 



8. Infusorial earth. On page 155, July, 

 1886, Canadian Horticulturist, Mr. 

 Bucke says, that boxes holding 30 lbs. 

 of earth can be procured of Messrs. 

 Esplin, Montreal, for 45 cents each. 



THE ANNUAL MEETING. 



In response to an invitation from the 

 Fruit Growers' Association of Grimsby, 

 it has been decided to hold the next 

 annual meeting of the Ontario Associa- 

 tion at that place. 



The meeting will be held in the Town 

 Hall, at Grimsby, on Wednesday and 

 Thursday, 28th and 29th of September, 

 beginning at 10 o'clock A.M., with the 

 the annual business of the Association, 

 the election of officers for the new year, 

 appointment of committees, &c. 



