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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



Influence should also be brought to 

 bear on agents in regard to storage. 

 Apples should never be stowed under 



or mixed with general or any other 

 cargo, and they should always be stowed 

 away from all heating influences. 



KEEPING 

 At the Grimsby meeting this subject 

 was briefly discussed. Mr. M. Pettit, 

 of Winona, said that last year, he had 

 tried setting away Niagaras until De- 

 cember, but he found that by that time 

 grapes seemed out of season on the 

 mai'ket, and the demand was over. 



Mr. J. B. Osborne, of Beamsville, 

 had been successful in keeping grapes. 

 He had filled cheeseboxes with them — 

 buried the boxes in earth so as to 

 totally exclude the air. In this way 

 he had kept them till the month of 

 February, and exhibited them at one of 

 the winter meetings of the Association 

 at Hamilton. The variety was the 

 Isabella, and they were in a fine state 

 of preservation. 



Mr. A. M. Smith said he had showed 



GRAPES. 



some Salem grapes at Collingwood 

 meeting last June, that had been kept 

 by Mr. Kerman. 



Mi\ D. Kermax, Grimsby, said his 

 plan was to take grapes when perfectly 

 dry, seal the stems with sealing wax, 

 pack them in ten gallon casks, placing 

 in layers of fine, diy hardwood saw- 

 dust, and then layers of grapes alter, 

 nately. He would give the cask fre- 

 quent gentle taps on the side to settle 

 the sawdust closely among the grapes. 

 When full, he glues stout paper over 

 the top, and hangs up the casks in the 

 cellar. In this way he had kept the 

 Salem grape in fine condition until 

 gi'apes came again the following year. 



The Salem, Vergennes and Pockling- 

 ton were spoken of as good varieties to 

 put away for winter use. 



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THE CURL OF THE PEACH LEAVES. 



Miss Etta L. Knowles writes in the 

 Botanical Gazette for September the 

 result of some investigations into the 

 cause of this disease. It is the result 

 of the gi'owth of a fungus called by 

 Botanists Exoascus deformans. The 

 observations were made upon samples 

 of the leaves gathered about first week 

 in June, and the drawings were by the 

 aid of the camera. 



In order better to understand the 

 effect of the fungus upon the leaves a 

 drawing of a cross section of a healthy 

 leaf is fii-st shown as in Fig. 1, in 

 which a represents the upper and h the 



under sui-face. 



Of course it is onl}^ by 



T 



Fig. 1. 

 the aid of a powerful magnifying glass 

 that anv such distinction of cells can be 



