. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1889. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. The Canadian Horticulturist. 293 r'^-^:^^^^. ^^^.. 1th C^nabian ^or^icuP^uriet 4|. 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. A Visit from Prof. Burrill.—It was with great pleasure that w
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1889. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. The Canadian Horticulturist. 293 r'^-^:^^^^. ^^^.. 1th C^nabian ^or^icuP^uriet 4|. 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. A Visit from Prof. Burrill.—It was with great pleasure that we en- tertained the celebrated niicroscopist, Prof. Burrill, of the Illinois State University, Champaign, 111., for a day at Grimsby just after the close of the meeting of the at the halls of the University of To- ronto. He is engaged under the U. S. Government in investigating the cause of the peach yellows, and should he succeed in defining the nature of this mysterious disease, we may next hope for some remedy. We visited several of the peach orchards of Grimsby, in each of which specimens of diseased trees were only too easily found, and he took away samples of the wood, fruit and roots of affected trees for careful microscopic study, promising that if any good should result, he would communicate it for the benefit of Canadian peach growers, through this journal. It was a privilege to look through his powerful instrument and see the minute microbes which cause the pear blight, mounted from diseased trees in our own orchard, and to listen to his explanation of their mode of operations. He also showed us the microbe of the peach yellows, but says its habits are much the more mysterious, for while the blight microbe has the power to make its way by a kind of corrosion from cell to cell of the pear tree, no way for such progress of the former has as yet been discovered, and, notwith- standing this, it is found in all parts of a diseased tree. We asked him if there co
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