THE CANADIAN HUKTlGULTUlilST. 1^7 



change comes over the spirit of ray dream, for what was my^conster- 

 natioii on finding every Lush entirely denuded of every fruit bud, as 

 clean as if they had been rubhed down with leather-gloved hands. 

 Not a Lud left ! On further investigation I found my Glass' Seedling 

 I'luni nearly stripped of every bud also, and a Mayduke Cherry con- 

 siderably damaged. I am not an alarmist, but am satisfied that if the 

 English Sparrow increases in the same ratio the next three years that 

 it has for the last three yeal-s, no one here need attempt to grow small 

 fruits. I therefore think that this is a fit subject for the consideration 

 of the Fruit Growlers' Association. I shall be happy to have any 

 member examine my garden, at No. 21 Caer Howell Street. 



GOllEESPONDENCE. 



Jonas Neff, of Port Colborne, writes that the Wagener Apple has 

 not done well with him ; it is scabby and knotty. The apple crop 

 was below an average, except the Early Harvest and Eed Astrachan, 

 which yielded more than usual. The Codliu Moth injured more than 

 two-thirds of his apple crop the past season. He mentions hearing the 

 Whippoorwill on tlie evening of tlie fifteenth of March last, a very 

 unusual occurence, the bird usually migrating early in the fall and 

 returning late in the spring. He further says : — 



* * * " The grab of May-bug, ( Phyllopha(ja quercina), appeared in countless 

 millions, causing acres of pasture land to look like fallow ground. I had two acres 

 of corn from which I harvested forty bushels of ears. Clover, wheat, potatoes, 

 turnips and strawberry plants shared the same fate. I know of but two animals that 

 feed on this grub, the skunk and the hog. The B.obins and Yellow-winged Wood- 

 peckers congregate in flocks on the fields where the grubs are ; they turn their heads 

 close to the ground, then straighten up, cut a small hole through the sod and pull out 

 the grub. The Robin is a very much abused bird by fruit growers generally." 



FRUITS IN ALGOMA. 



We have received a letter from Mr. W. Warnock, renewing his 

 subscription to the Association, and stating that he has changed his 

 residence from Gorrie to Blind Eiver, Algoma. He says : — 



* * • " I am sorry that I have not yet been of any benefit to the Association, 

 but I hope that I may be able to do something in return for all the valuable information 

 I get from the Canadian Horticulturist and the Annual Report. There were no 

 fruit trees planted on this the north shore of the Georgian Bay by the first settlers, 

 but there are a few who planted some last year, and they have made a fine growth this 



