. The Canadian horticulturist. Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture. 202 HIE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. All who listened seemed pleased, and a crowded hall is sure to greet Mr. Race should he ever speak again in Kincardine. WM. WELSH, President K. H. S. Kincardine, March 24, 1903. FRUIT PROSPECTS AT WHITBY. Sir : As we have nearly finished pruning our orchard, we have a good opportunity of ex- amining the buds, wood growth, etc., of the different varieties we are experimenting with. We find no frozen or injured buds on any of our apple trees ; but some of the pears that were very
. The Canadian horticulturist. Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture. 202 HIE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. All who listened seemed pleased, and a crowded hall is sure to greet Mr. Race should he ever speak again in Kincardine. WM. WELSH, President K. H. S. Kincardine, March 24, 1903. FRUIT PROSPECTS AT WHITBY. Sir : As we have nearly finished pruning our orchard, we have a good opportunity of ex- amining the buds, wood growth, etc., of the different varieties we are experimenting with. We find no frozen or injured buds on any of our apple trees ; but some of the pears that were very heavily laden last year are not as perfect as usual, notably Dr. Reeder, Fred. Baudry, President Drouard, Doyenne d'Ete, and some others, while Clapp's Favorite, Bartlett, Dempsey, Lawrence and W. Nelis are pretty well filled with perfect buds. Kieffer Angou- leme, Louise Bonne, Ester Buerre, Clairgeau, Tyson, Jules Guyott, Lucrative, and some of the newer sorts, as Rutter, Koonce, Wilder, Law- son, etc., were never in better showing at this season. Should the spring be favorable I have hopes of a heavy crop of pears. The month of March, so far, has been so fine and springlike, that the buds are swelling already, which is at least two weeks earlier than last year. Al- though the frost is all out of the ground, the land is too soft to drive over. We have two sprayers all ready to operate as soon as the land is solid enough. Owing to so much rain at spraying time last year, our spraying was not done in time, and we suffered the conse- quence in having too many scabby apples. The prices of apples has ruled very low from the start last fall, and is still low for anything but No. 1 stock, and this is only about half the price they were at this date last year. I hope the committee appointed at our last annual meeting on transportation will accomplish some good work before we have another fruit crop to handle, as the present and past rates charged are simply prohibitive between here
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