SUHSCRIPTION PRICE, $1.00 per year, entitl ng the subscriber to menil)er8hip of the Fruit 

 Growers' Association of Ontario and all its privileges, including a copy of its valuable Annual 

 Report, and a share in its annual distribution of plants and trees. 



REMITTANCES by Registered Letter are at our risk. ' Receipts will be acknowledged upon 

 the address label. 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Tree Wa.sh. — For washing the trunks of trees to drive away borers and to 

 destroy such insects as may be upon them, carbolic acid and kerosene emulsion 

 is excellent. It consists of one quart of soap, one pint of kerosene, two quarts 

 of water and one pint of carbolic acid. 



The Cherry and Pear Tree Slug should be watched for carefully a«d 

 remedies should be applied immediately. Dry dust, coal or wood ashes? 

 plaster, slacked lime, will destroy them ; but, if the trees are large and numerous, 

 arsenites may be more readily applied. 



NozzELS FOR Si'RAViNi;. — For orchard spraying the Ni.xon noz/.le makes a 

 mist-like spray and does excellent work, but for the vineyard, and especially with 

 the knapsack sprayer, the Vermorel nozzle. is the best, being easily cleaned if 

 clogged. This it is particularly apt to do in applying the Bordeaux mixture, and, 

 therefore, in the use of this fungicide, the \'ermorel nozzle is decidedly the most 

 desirable. 



Plu.m Cl'RCULIo. — liuiletin 83, of the Michigan Agricultural College, notes 

 that the " Little Turk" sometimes appears upon plum trees before the flowers open, 

 and, as it has recently been decreed in the interest of bee keepers that no spraying 

 be done while the trees are in bloom, it will be wise to give an application to 

 our plum trees just before the blooming time, in order to destroy any curculio 

 that might be waiting around U) begin its mischievous depredation.^. 



i'KOTECTiNd VouN(; Trees From Mice. — In bulletin 17 of the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College, a simple recipe is given for protecting trees frcm 

 mice. The advice is to paint the trunks of the trees late in the fall, from eighteen 



