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is the standard package, and is, I think, easier and quicker to pack, and 

 carries the fruit remarkably well. 



We, as English fruit-growers, have much we may with advantage learn 

 both from our colonies and from the United States, and from our foreign 

 competitors, modifying some of their methods to our individual require- 

 ments. In the United States, in most of our colonies, and in many 

 foreign countries, the Government experimental stations and colleges are 

 the great practical and scientific teachers. Here we have to work these 

 things out more slowly ourselves, with the help of information collected and 

 spread by horticultural and agricultural societies and gardening literature. 



I believe it would be a great help to fruit-growers to have an expert 

 in spraying to visit fruit farms and gardens, and advise and show the 

 best and easiest ways to clean our plantations from insect and fungoid 

 pests. The County Bee-keepers' Associations have their experts, who are 

 of great assistance in showing us how to manage our bees ; why do we 

 not have a spraying expert, well versed in practice and theory ? 



I desire to express my thanks for the permission to use their photo- 

 graphs to Prof. F. C. Sears, School of Horticulture, Wolfeville, Nova 

 Scotia ; and to Prof. Wm. B. Alwood, F.R.H., Polytechnic Institute, 

 Blacksburg, Virginia. Also for the loan of numerous blocks from the 

 Spramotor Company, London, Ontario. 



J HP 



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