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culties when the nursery is at a distance. Anyone could furnish himself 

 ■with fine trees from the woods at a very trifling expense. Of course, trees 

 taken from the forest suffer from the change unless taken up when very 

 small and first cultivated in nursery rows. The best way is to take little 

 seedlings from the woods with a trowel and grow them in the garden or 

 in nursery rows, until they have grown good roots, after which they are fit 

 for planting in the open field. In this way, any farmer with very little 

 expense, may provide himself with an abundant supply of forest trees for 

 windbreaks, shelter belts or ornament. 



Mr. R. W. Phipps, of Toronto, took up the subject of " Windbreaks for 

 Fruit Growers," of which he was convinced that there was great benefit. The 

 Norway Spruce was much planted for this purpose ; it grew very rapidly, 

 but it was not sufficiently durable. The Canadian White Pine was better 

 suited to the purpose than the Norway Spruce on this account ; the White 

 Spruce also promised to be very desirable. 



For hedges, the Arbor Yitae, sometimes called the White Cedar, is excel- 

 lent for the vicinity of Toronto, near which place he had seen a thicket 

 Avhich was twelve teet wide at the base, and twenty feet high. Where it 

 succeeds there is nothing better for the purpose. 



BLACK CURRANT BORER. 



IR, — I am going to plant about four hundred Black Currant Plants, Champion, on 

 black soil. Will that suit Black Currants ? Can you say anything about the borers 

 that trouble these bushes ? An answer would oblige me very much. John Mill- 

 row, Orono, Out. 



Black Currants should succeed well on the soil spoken of. We find that 

 as a rule the currant is more fruitful on heavier soil, providing it is not too 

 heavy to be easily cultivated, and kept fine and porous. 



The borer does not affect the black Currant bushes quite as badly as 

 the red and white ; but still it does affect them seriously, especially 

 the imported Currant-borer, called by Entomologists, /Egeria tipidiformis, 

 and to this species we will devote a few lines. 



The moth (Fig. 39.) is a pretty wasp-like creature, measuring 



about three-quarters of an inch from tip to tip of its wings. The 



color is bluish-black, and the wings are transparent. It may 



be seen in the month of June, flying about, and seeking suit- 



FiG. 39- able places in which to deposit its eggs. These, says Prof. 



Saunders in his excellent work on " Insects Injurious to Fruits," are laid 



3iear the buds, where in a few days they hatch into small larvae, which eat 



their way to the centre of the stem, where they burrow up and down, feed- 



