. The Canadian horticulturist. Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture. 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. JsTotes ar)d (fon)nr)er)t<?. This season is, after all, little better than last, so far as the apple harvest is concerned. Last year was discouraging enough
. The Canadian horticulturist. Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture. 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. JsTotes ar)d (fon)nr)er)t<?. This season is, after all, little better than last, so far as the apple harvest is concerned. Last year was discouraging enough, for the apples failed, and the peaches and grapes were ruined with a terrific hailstorm. Fruit farming has greater possibilities of success than any other branch of agricultural life, no doubt, but it is also subject to disastrous failure, when frosts, and insects and fungi combine to destroy the magnificent prospects of the early part of the season. The best early summer Pear is perhaps the Beurre Giffard. We have just finished marketing it (Aug. ioth). The Doyenne d'Ete was first to ripen, then the Chambers, the Osband's Summer, and the Beurje Giffard. The others are rather small, excepting Chambers, which is of fair size, but in quality, size and in beauty the Giffard excels. It must, however, be gathered just before maturity or it will rot at the core. Elizabeth is following it closely, a very small, but very productive, variety. The Red Spider is unusually troublesome on the currant bushes in some localities. Mr. Joseph Tweedle, of Stony Creek, brought us some leaves of the Red Cherry currant, which were sere and yellow, just ready to drop, through in- jury caused by this insect^which was in large numbers on the underside of each leaf, and so tiny as to be scarcely discernible with the naked eye. According to Mr. Fletcher, kerosene emulsion is the best remedy, using one part of stock- emulsion to twelve of water. The Rivers Peach is proving itself a valuable early variet
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