. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1893. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. SUBSCRIPTION' PRICE, $ 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. Receipts will be acknowledged upon, the address label. NOTES AND COMMENTS. The Act Regarding Plum Knot and Villous.—At the meeting at Brantford, the present Act with regard to the diseases of fruit trees was discussed
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1893. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. SUBSCRIPTION' PRICE, $ 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. Receipts will be acknowledged upon, the address label. NOTES AND COMMENTS. The Act Regarding Plum Knot and Villous.—At the meeting at Brantford, the present Act with regard to the diseases of fruit trees was discussed, and the conclusion was arrived at, that some of the provisions render the Act a dead letter ; for instance, the article requiring fifty ratepayers to sign a petition, before the council is obliged to appoint an inspector of diseased trees. This is a task which few will undertake. Five names to such a petition is surely sufficient. Then the inspector, after his appointment, cannot act except he has a written complaint from some person, calling his attention to the existence of yellows or black knot. Now this is another hindrance to successful working of the Act. Surely an inspector has eyes of his own, and he should be empowered to act, without being asked, whenever he sees or hears of yellows existing in his district. But what if the local inspector will not act, when called upon, for fear of displeasing his neighbors ? How can we then enforce the destruction of the diseased trees. The remedy perhaps is to have a provincial inspector, whose duties it shall be to enforce the provisions of the Act in any locality where, owing to the dilatoriness of the local inspector, he is called upon to enforce it The committee charged with this matter, will call upon the Minister of Agriculture at an early date, and draw his attention to the much-needed amend- ments to the Act, as outlined by the Association. Our enegetic contemporary, the American Garden, opens the January number with a
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