lyo The Canadian Horticulturist. 



WESTERN NEW YORK FRUIT GROWERS. 



HE report of the twenty-sixth annual meeting of this Society, which 

 was held in January, has been printed with unusual promptitude. 

 Its pages are full of interesting and useful information. The fruit 

 growers of Western New York are at the very forefront in all the de- 

 partments of fruit culture ; and since their climate corresponds with 

 that of Southern Ontario, their experiences are of especial benefit to 

 us. 

 Insects and Fungi. — Some interesting particulars were brought forward 

 under these heads, some of which have been already summarized in this journal. 

 Dr. J. A. Lintner criticized a statement, made at the meeting of the Ontario 

 Fruit Growers' Association, that a valuable plum orchard had been utterly 

 ruined by the use of London purple. In his opinion, the injury, which resulted 

 in the falling of the foliage, was not due to the spraying, but wholly to a fungus 

 attack. Prof. Bailey, he said, has sprayed plum trees with one pound of London 

 purple to two hundred gallons of water, without injuring the foliage in the 

 slightest degree. By the addition of lime to the arsenities, the injury, which 

 these poisons might otherwise do, could be entirely avoided, and they could then 

 be used upon the most tender foliage, such as that of even the peach tree. The 

 lime is prepared by slacking it in a barrel and stirring it afterwards until the 

 water becomes quite milky, up to the degree that it would not clog the nozzle of 

 the sprayer. 



Several experiments had been made with limed arsenical mixtures on the 

 cherry, apple, plum and peach, using one pound of the London purple to one 

 hundred gallons of water, and the injury was but the trifling amount of one per 

 cent. 



Professor Gillette had been experimenting with London purple in the Bor- 

 deaux mixture and had been unable to produce the least harm upon peach or 

 plum foliage, even when he used one pound to fifty gallons. Indeed one pound 

 to twenty-five gallons did not harm the plum foliage, and one pound to ten gal- 

 lons caused no damage to the apple. 



Grapes, Old and New. — An interesting paper was read by Mr. W. C. Barry 

 upon this subject. He characterized the Worden as one of the most important 

 of the recent acquisitions, and one which was destined, in some localities, to 

 supercede the Concord ; it ripens a week earlier, is of better quality, is as vigor- 

 ous a grower and as productive. 



The Barry he prefers to the Wilder, and considers it especially valuable as a 

 market grape on account of its remarkable size and its handsome appearance, 

 combined with good quality. 



The Vergennes was worthy of a place in our vineyards, being of a large 

 size, good quality and of sufficient firmness to make it an excellent shipper. 



