SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1.00 per year, entitling the subscriber to .membership of the Fruit 

 Growers' Association of Ontario and all its privileges, including a copy of its valuable Annual 

 Report, and a share in its annual distribution of plants and trees. 



REMITTANCES by Registered Letter are at our risk, 

 the address label. 



Receipts will be acknowledged upon 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



French Grapes came to London, England, about the ist of July, and 

 sold at 50 cents per pound. Such prices would pay Canadian growers ! 



Lawn Grass, — Messrs. Steele Bros, criticize a paragraph of page 216 and 

 state that Kentucky Blue Grass fit for lawn seed has been sold wholesale this 

 season as high as $2.75 per bushel, and that some seed in their mixture has 

 cost them as high as 60c. per pound. 



Potash for Insects. — It seems that solutions of potash have been tried at 

 the New Jersey Experiment Station, and found to possess merits as insecticides. 

 Muriate of potash has been tried at the Popular Gardening grounds, near 

 Buffalo, at the rate of one pound dissolved in two gallons of water and sprayed 

 upon the currant bushes for the worm, and on the plum and cherry trees for the 

 aphis. Two days after the insects were found to be entirely cleared off the 

 foliage. 



Lime used in connection with arsenites, has been proved by the Ohio Experi. 

 ment Station to render the latter quite harmless to foliage. Mixtures 

 were made of London purple and Paris green in water, in proportions of 

 8 ounces to 50 gallons of water in each case, and the same with two pounds o 

 lime added. The applications without lime were injurious to the foliage, especially 

 the London purple and water, by which nearly eighty per cent of the foliage was 

 damaged ; but in the cases where the lime was added, no damage whatever was 

 observable. This is an exceedingly important discovery to us fruit growers. 



