74 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



should be exercised in the use of the poisons, which, as quahty greatly 

 varies, should be procured only of reliable dealers ; twelve ounces of Paris 

 green, dissolved in two hundred gallons of water, was said to be effective 

 against the codling moth. For spraying plum trees, two ounces of London 

 purple to one hundred gallons of water, was recommended; the purple 

 solution, however, should never be sprayed on peach trees, as it seemed 

 much more injurious to the foliage than Paris green." 



In reply to various questions it was stated that on heavy loam or clayey 

 soil, dwarf pears, especially the Duchess, KiefFer and Anjou, were by far the 

 more profitable. On light gravelly, or sandy soil, the standards were the best. 



" Relative to Evaporation of Fruits," was the subject of a paper read 

 by Michael Doyle. Mr. Doyle said that the failure of the apple crop in 

 Western New York, drove the evaporators to Michigan for a supply of 

 apples. The Michigan apple sold as well in the market as the New York 

 apple. There was a demand for fancy evaporated fruit, which ought to be 

 an incentive to evaporators to try to supply this demand. He complained 

 that were was a tendency to overdo the business, and the competition in the 

 evaporating concerns was very close. Mr. Doyle gave the following estimate 

 of the. amount and value of evaporated apples, in the leading apple-produc- 

 ing States: New York, Ohio and Michigan, for last year : Pounds 18,000,000, 

 value, $712,000. 



Mr. Doyle spoke of the measures taken by the German government to 

 keep evaporated American fruit out of the country. The fruit was not 

 allowed to be placed on sale until it had been analyzed by a competent 

 chemist. Mr. Doyle thought the German government desired to see the 

 industry started by the German people, and, therefore, did everything they 

 lawfully could to keep out American fruit. The effort of the Germans, how- 

 ever, to evaporate fruit, was a failure. When Americans were offering fruit 

 at seven cents a pound, in the German markets it was costing the Germans 

 ten and eleven cents to produce a pound of fruit read}^ for use. The 

 American fruit was looked upon with suspicion, because of the fact that it 

 was dried upon galvanized wires, and it was feared that it contained zinc in 

 quantities sufficient to injure persons using it. He favored the use of some- 

 thing in place of the galvanized wires. 



During a talk on fertilizers, it was stated that formerly hardwood ashes 

 from Canada was about the best fertilizer to be had, but that the Canadians 

 were getting wakened up, and they had begun to "doctor " their ashes, so that 

 within the last two years, the quality of the ashes had fallen off. 



A communication from W. W. Dunlop, of Montreal, invited the members 

 to attend the Convention of the Dominion Fruit Growers, at Ottawa, 

 February igth to 21st, and asking the Society to send a judge to act with 

 another judge from the Massachussetts Society. S. D, Willard, of Geneva, 

 was selected in accordance with this request. 



(To be continued.) 



