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We shall be much obliged to apple shippers, who are readers of this journal, 

 if they will make public, through these columns, any unfairness or trickery which 

 chances to be practised upon them by commission merchants anywhere, either in 

 England or in Canada, and we shall be glad to make it public. We want to 

 know who the reliable men are, and who the rogues, and to allow none except 

 the former to have place in our columns. 



Sun Scald. — Mr. Hatch, of Wisconsin Experiment Station, attributes this 

 to severe cold, followed by rapid thawing out under a hot sun. He would wrap 

 the trees, in sections where this prevails, with medicated straw. By this he 

 means straw dipped in whitewash containing some carbolic acid and Paris green, 

 so as to keep away injurious insects and vermin. Prof. Budd thinks the evil is 

 usually started during the first stages of growth after transplanting. 



A KILLING frost occurred in England on the 1 6th and 17th of May last, 

 doing immense damage to fruit crops. The thermometer fell to 21°, 11° below 

 freezing, accompanied by snow and hail. As a result, half the gooseberry crop was 

 destroyed, plums, cherries, pears and apples suffered very badly, a portion, per 

 haps, being saved because not being quite far enough advanced, but many even 

 unopened blossoms were blackened at the heart. This is a most unusual disap- 

 pointment for our English fruit-growing friends to endure. 



The Industrial. — We are pleased to learn that, through the instrumen- 

 tality of our representatives on the Industrial Fair Board, an entirely new fruit 

 building is to be erected. It is to afford four times the former accommodation, 

 and to be entirely devoted to fruit exhibits. It is to be built in front of the floral 

 hall, facing east. This is an improvement much needed in order to give that 

 prominence to Canadian fruits which so important an industry deserves. 



Celery growing about Kalamazoo, Mich., must be a very important indus- 

 try. According to the Michigan Farmer, there are fully one thousand persons 

 about that town who make their living out of that industry. The early celery 

 begins to go to market about the 20th of June, and continues to come in, in 

 succession throughout the season. The yield for this season is estimated at 

 about 4,500,000 dozen, for which growers will realize a net return of from ten to 

 fifteen cents a dozen, and this will mean an income of nearly $1,000,000. 



The American Pomological Society will hold its twenty-third session at 

 Washington, D.C., on the 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 25th of September, 1891. An 

 official programme will be issued at an early date. This is an old and respect- 

 able Society, for a long time fostered by the venerable M. P. Wilder, to whom it 

 owes much of its high reputation and usefulness. A worthy successor has been 

 found in Mr. P. J. Berckmans, of Augusta, Georgia, and with so efficient a sec- 



