392 Thk Canadian HoRiicui.TURi.sr. 



to the apple, pear, peach, plum, grape or any other of the fruits. It would help 

 us in our work, as an Association, and make this report of value to many more 

 of us, if careful inquiries were made under the head indicated and the results 

 published in their annual reports. Surely the products of the orchard and 

 garden are of just as much importance to our country as any of those of the 

 field. ' 



The Standard Aim'i.i: Barrel. — Since our last issue we have secured, 

 through the kindness of Wm. White, of Ottawa, the following extract from the 

 Revised Statutes of the Dominion : 



" 1 8. — I. All apples packed in Canada for sale by the barrel, shall be 

 j)acked in good and strong barrels of seasoned wood made as nearly cylindrical as 

 may be ; the staves of such barrels shall be twenty-seven inches in length from 

 croe to croe, with heads trom sixteen and one-half to seventeen inches in 

 diameter; and such barrels shaU be sufficiently hooped, with a lining hoop within 

 the chimes, the whole well secured by nails. 



" 2. Every person who offers or exposes apples for sale by the barrel, 

 otherwise than in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this section, shall 

 be liable to a penalty of twenty-five cents for each barrel of apples so offered or 

 exposed for sale. 48-49 V., c 16, s. 18." 



New York State is waking up to the importance of making a good 

 exhibition of fruit at the Chicago Exposition. Mr. (i. T. Powell has been chosen 

 superintendent. He proposes, as an exhibition of fresh fruits in their season, 

 200 varieties of strawberries, 50 of raspberries, 25 of blackberries, 25 of currants, 

 25 of gooseberries, 75 of cherries, 150 of peaches, and 250 each of apples, pears 

 and grapes. In addition to this, he is ordering from an expert German artist 

 about one thousand wax models of each of the natural fruits which are supposed 

 to be the exact copies of the originals grown in New York State. These will be 

 very beautiful. In our opinion, however, wax models are inferior to the real 

 thing every time, for people will constantly question whether anything in nature 

 could equal the waxen copies. We believe when our own collection of fruit in 

 glass jars, under Mr. I'ettit's charge, is shown, it will gain us more credit than a 

 collection of wax ones, and the expense will probably be much less. 



E.XPERIMENTS IN HoRTicui.TURE. — Mr. John Craig's evidence for 1892, 

 as the Dominion Horticulturist, before a select committee of the House, contains 

 a resume of horticultural progress up to the present time. After speaking of the 

 work of propagating nursery stock and protection against mice, he refers to 

 unleached wood ashes as one of the best and cheapest fertilizers for the orchard. 

 A bushel contains three pounds of potash, one of phosphoric acid, besides lime, 

 magnesia, etc. He cautions against using Paris green with any combination 

 containing ammonia undiluted, because the arsenic is thereby dissolved and 



