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IRISH GARDENING. 



|)l.llll. 'I'llr |.il|-t Irit will XM.ii ,•< ■ (.It. ;ui(l IK. 



Iiiirni will he done to llic spit.iits. 



ToMAToKs.- All l"i-iii(s ,m'(t\vn on llif (.iil>itlc 

 honlci's should he rt'iiiovcd froin the plants, and 

 pliUH'd oil (lie jxri'i-nhousf w iics or slu-lvcs to lipcu. 



ClOLKKY. — Any time diirint,' (his iiioiith. when 

 (ho wi'iidicr is favom ahlc ccli'iy will iciiiiirc the 

 liiial iii()uldiiii,'-up. I'ldvciisi- tlu' soil well and 

 work it Ix'twrcn (he plants. The lidj^cs when 

 liiiislu'd shouhl bi' sharp and niado fliin with thr 

 back of a spade, so (hat (hey will (hrow oil' lain. 

 Excessive niois dire a( (he stem of (he ])lants will 

 do more harm than frost. 



SAL.VDS.^Some chicory iiia>- be lilted lor 

 forcing. I'lace endive and lettuce in I'raines for 

 winter use. the sashes should I'eniain oft unless 

 there is excessive rain or fros(. .Mustard and cress 

 may now be sown in boxes and ])laced in heat. 



TiiK \'i;(iKT.\i{LK Chop. — All vegetables have 

 been a success (his season. Beet and parsnijjs ai-e 

 looking well, and carro(s are free from fly. Cauli- 

 flower (urned in slow at llrst. but is now giving 

 satisfaction. Teas at lust did not till well, but mi (I 

 and late season varieties have done well. .French 

 beans were poor in the early summer, but gave 

 better resuKs late in (he season. Spring sown 

 onions could have done better, but (here has becm 

 a fair general crop. Celery is still free from blight 

 and is looking healthy. 



Notes. 



Common Sense. 



" We have been told (o (urn our gardens into 

 potato patches. I doubt whether the author of 

 this poster has any practical knowledge either of 

 gardenmg or agriculture. To turn a flower 

 garden into a vegetable garden means one of two 

 things — either the expenditure of capital on the 

 extermination of valuable plants, the purchase 

 of loam and manure, and the employment of 

 labour absolutely unprocurable, or it means poor 

 vegetables which cannot be sold or given away 

 under the ordinary village conditions of English 

 rural life, 



'* I speak with feeling. I would rather see a 

 dozen soldiers home on leave mending tlieir health 

 by enjoying the Roses, Foxglove's, Delphiniums 

 and Heliotrope than batten on artichokes and 

 potatoes that have cost me two shillings and six- 

 pence to grow.'' 



Arnold White in the Sept. Ruyal Mayaziiic 



Fruit Growing in Manitoba.* 



1,000 Quarts of Strawberries on a Third of an Acre. 



More than 1,000 quarts of strawberries have been 

 grown this seasor by Mr. A. Wilson on a third 

 of an acre near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. 

 He was able to dipsose of them at 25 cents a 

 quart, and as the jjicking was done by himself 

 and family, there would be a return of over £50 

 from the third of an acre. The berries are of 

 the Dunlop variety, and are large and luscious. 

 Altogether, ^Ir. Wilson farms fifty-six acres, all 

 in fruit or vegetable crops. He has ten acres of 

 cucumbers, ten acres of cabbage and cauliflowers 

 and twenty-five acres of potatoes, and with all 

 his crops he is usually successful. 



The British Columbia Orchards. 



Prospects cf Good Crop and High Quality. 



TiiK a]. pie production of Hritish Columbia this 



\car is estimated at about Kt per cent, over (hat 



last s. 



Of last vea 



|) ai)o ut :{0 i)er 



t . was used in the province: (id per cent, shipped 

 to the f'rairie Pro\ inces. and In ix-r cent. e\|)orted 

 to Australia. .New Zealand, (ireat Hritain and else- 

 w liere. .Mieady this year the full capacity of (he 

 \esscls trading to the Antipodes has been con- 

 tracted l(.r. aiul the export to those points would 

 be larger were (he carrying space available. 

 According to (lie latest reports received by (he 

 (ioNcrnnient the apph; croj) is generally in good 

 condition. The ci-oj) in what is known as th<^ dry 

 belt the Okanagan. Jioundary and Thompson 

 River sections — is exceptionally clean. The hot 

 weather in June affected numy trees which had 

 felt (lie severe winter, and. in consequence, tins 

 .lune " (hop " was hea\ > . Hut the prosp<!cts 

 from the standpoint of (jualitv tliis vear are much 

 better than last. 



War Prices and the Canadian 

 Fruit Crop.* 



Preserving without Sugar. 



British Columbia is expected to have a large 

 crop this year of soft fruits, such as apricots, 

 peaches, plums, prunes, cherries and preserving 

 pears. The British Columbia Emit Cirowers' 

 Association and the Provincial Dt^ijartment of 

 Agriculture arc endeavouring to obtain an 

 (extended market for those fruits throughout 

 \\'este]ii Canada. Unfortunately the present 

 liigli price of sugar is an obstacle. In view of this 

 the I'rairie Markets Commission of the Horticul- 

 tural Branch of the Department of Agriculture 

 asks that all shippers place in each box shijjped 

 a slip giving methods of preserving fruit without 

 sugar. In a useful pamphlet issued by the same 

 branch, it is stated that sugar used in less 

 (luantity than is necessary to make a thick 

 syrup " takes absolutely no part in the preserva- 

 tion of fruit fx'om deterioration." It adds that 

 fruit preserved without sugar retains its dis- 

 tinctive flavour, and is altogether superior to 

 fruit preserved with sugar. Of course sugar must 

 be used when the fruit is prepared for the table. 



Canada as a Sugar Growing Country* 



Ix recent years Canada has entered the field Jis 

 a grower of sugar beet. It has been found that 

 certain parts of the Dominion are ideal for the 

 cultivation of this crop, and with modern manu- 

 facturing methods Canadian- grown beet is pro- 

 ducing a sugar equal to any grown elsewhere. 

 For Canada it means an industry already very 

 important from the labour standpoint. It means 

 furthermore an industry that supports, on an 

 exceedingly profitable basis, hundreds of farms 

 in Western Ontario and elsewhere. In the 

 counties of Essex, Kent. Lambton, Waterloo, 

 Wellington and Huron thousands of acres are 

 devoted to the cultivation of the crop. Sugar 

 beet is also grown in parts of. Western Canada. 



* Canadian News Items, Aug. 21. 



