jy. The Canadian Horticulturist. 



SPRAVIXC. CROPS.* 



r the present time there is no subject of more interest to fruit- 

 •Towers than the proper way to spray fruit trees to protect the 

 crop from the attacks of injurious insects. A very conci.se and 

 handy little book has lately been published by Prof. Clarence M. 

 Weed, of Hanover, New Hampshire, upon this subject. It con- 

 ssts of an introduction in which the methods, apparatus and materials necessary 

 for spraying crops to protect them against their insect and fungous enemies are 

 described. This is followed by four chapters, entitled : Part I., spraying the larger 

 fruits, apple, plum, cherry, pear, peaches. Part U, spraying small fruits and 

 nursery stock, strawberries, currants, gooseberries, grape, raspberry, nursery stock, 

 Part HI. spraying shade trees, ornamental plants and flowers, shade-trees, roses, 

 flowers. Part IV, spraying vegetables, field crops and domestic animals. 

 Prof. Weed's experience makes him a valuable guide in the subjects of which he 

 treats. He was one of the very first experimenters to discover a combined 

 insecticide and fungicide, which, in the case of the potato rot and potato beetle, 

 has turned out very successfully, so that now both of these scourges may be 

 treated at once with little more expense. The instructions are given in a short 

 plain manner, and the book is well illustrated. Its convenient size and small 

 price make it U welcome addition to the books of value within the reach of every 

 farmer in the country. Bound up with it are advertisements of the makers of 

 the best spraying outfits, which will be found of use to those wishing to buy these 



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 useful instruments. J-^- 



The Peach Rosette. — This formidable disease of the peach is fully 

 described and figured in Prof. E. F. Smith's able and copious report issued by 

 the Department of Agriculture. It seems to occupy the ground in the South 

 that the yellows covers through the North and in the Central States, but it is 

 more speedy in its work of destruction. It is equally fatal to budded trees and 

 seedlings, cultivated, uncultivated and wild. It takes the Wild Goose and other 

 ^vild plums. It runs its course in about six months, and does not linger. Com- 

 monly, it first appears in early spring. The leaves form compact tufts or rosettes, 

 turn yellow in early summer, and afterwards fall. They do not afford enough 

 shade to hide the branches, and the tufts are conspicuous and may be seen at 

 long distance. They drop their fruit early ; it is small, green and more or less 

 shriveled, tt has occurred abundantly in Northern Georgia, but not in South 

 and North Carolina. It differs from the yellows in the absence of prematurely- 

 ripening fruit, and in a less tendency to develop slender shoots from the large 

 limbs. It is virulently contagious. Exterinwiation is of course the only remedy. 



•Si'BAYiSf: t'KOi's, by Prof. Clarence M. Weed : The Rural Publishing Co., New York, 

 ISy.', 75c. 



