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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



F"ebruary, 19 TO 



than along the lake and it is unlikely that 

 enough will over be grown there to mater- 

 ially affect the market. 



In the county of Kent, particularly along 

 the lake shore there is a tract of land that 

 is well adapted to peach growing. A fi'W 

 are being grown there but they are not 

 planting very extensively as yet. 



Peach Trees on Plum Roots 



Editor, The Canadian Horticultur- 

 ist : — You ask for my experience in grow- 

 ing peaches on plum stocks. It is rather 

 limited, but may be of value. 



When so many peach trees were killed by 

 root freezing a few winters ago in the vi- 

 cinity of Leamington, where we had our 

 experimental station, it was suggested at a 

 meeting of the experimental board that we 

 try to get some peach trees budded on plum, 

 knowing that plum roots would be hardier 

 and perhaps might stand the winter better. 

 We tried to get them at several nurseries 

 both in Canada and the United States 

 without success. Finally I volunteered to 

 grow some if the board would furnish me 

 the plum stocks. 



Accordingly in the spring of 1907 they 

 sent me 1,000 (500 Americana and 500 My- 

 robolan) which were carefully planted and 

 budded the same season. Those on the 

 Americana stock made a vigorous growth in 

 the summer of 1908, fully equalling those 



grown on peach roots alongside of them. 

 While the buds had taken equally as well 

 on the Myrobolan, they made but a feeble 

 growth and were not more than half the 

 size. The trees, about 300 of each, were 

 delivered at the exi)erimental farm, Jor- 

 dan Harbor, to be distributed among the 

 different stations last spring. Reports on 

 how they succeed in the future will be giv- 

 en when results are available. 



I myself planted a few and had two fine 

 peaches from one the first year of plant- 

 ing. Judging from these results, I should 

 use the Americana stocks if I were going to 

 grow peaches on plum stocks. — A. M. 

 Smith, Port Dalhousie, Ont. 



Shipping Peaches to England 



Last season experimental shipments of 

 peaches from various sources in Ontario 

 were sent to England. Comments respect- 

 ing some of them were published in the 

 January issue of TuE Canadian Horti- 

 culturist- These shipments have been re- 

 ferred to also in the reports of the depart- 

 ment of trade and commerce, Ottawa. In 

 one of these reports, Mr. W. A. MacKin- 

 non, Canadian Trade Commissioner at Bir- 

 mingham, refers to a shipment made by the 

 Biggs Fruit and Produce Co. of Burlington, 

 Ont., and gives the following general advice 

 to persons interested in this trade : 



"The Package. — See that it is sound, and 



New 



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Sle f ak 



Leo Slezak, the great tenor, now sings for you in the Edison 

 Phonograph the same famous arias from the Grand Operas that the 

 New York audiences pay $5.00 a seat to hear. Just how great a 

 singer Slezak is, is told in the following remark, quoted from the 

 New York World the morning after a recent appearance of Slezak at 

 the Metropolitan Opera House: "Caruso now has a rival." 



Slezak has made ten records for the Edison, comprising the 

 principal tenor songs from the more prominent roles of his repertoire 

 — so that, while the New York opera goer pays $5.00 a seat to hear 

 Slezak in one opera, with the Edison Phonograph and Amberol 

 Records you get Slezak at his best in his ten best roles, including 

 Otello, Lohengrin, Tannhauser, Rhadames in Aida and Rodolfo 

 in La Boheme. 



Only on Amberol Records can you get a full length rendering of 

 these great arias — and only on the Edison Phonograph do you get 

 Amberol Records. Hear these great Slezak Records at any Edison 

 dealer's today. 



Edison Phonoeraphs J16.50 to $240.00 Edison Amberol Records (play twice aslbnelj .65 

 Edison Standard Records - - .40 Edison Grand Opera Records - - .85 and 1.25 



There are Edison dealers everywhere. Go to the nearest and hear the Edison Phonograph 

 play both Edison Standard and Amberol Records. Get complete catalogs from your 

 dealer or from us 



National Phonocraph Co., 100 Lakeuda Avenua, Orance, N. J., U. S. A. 



the advertisement which it carried conspic- 

 uous. 



THK PKflT 



"All ovor-ripo, bruised, cut, or otherwise 

 blemished specimens must be absolutely ex- 

 cluded. If tho.se selected are to lemain 

 .sound and carry well, they must be hand- 

 led more gently than eggs, receiving neith- 

 er jar nor under pressure. Peaches for ex- 

 port should be picked as much as possible 

 with the jjalm rather than with the fingers, 

 and placed on a layer of cotton wool or 

 excelsior in the picking ba.sket. All de- 

 tails of wrapping and packing should be 

 carried out with the same delicate care. It 

 all adds to the cost, but there is no use 

 saving expense on that side and landing 

 damaged peaches here. 



WRAPPING 



■ "Waxed or some paper impervious to 

 moisture is advisable, though the kind of pa- 

 per used by California shippers, some of 

 which is treated with antiseptics, should 

 be suflncient if decay and other moisture can 

 be absolutely excluded. Outside the paper, 

 a riYig of cotton or wood should surround 

 every peach as a buffer between it and 

 others in the same package. In some of 

 the government trial shipments in 1899 a 

 belt of wood wool was folded in tissue pa- 

 per making a band from one and a half to 

 two and a half inches wide and success- 

 fully used. This of course occupies valuable 

 space, but would appear to be necessary. 



COLD STOR.\GB 



"The peaches were in excellent condition, 

 the flavor appearing almost uninjured, so 

 that it is to be concluded that they had 

 come through ideal temperature conditions. 



"The whole matter may be summed up 

 by stating that scrupulous care in the mat- 

 ters of selecton, protection and temperature 

 is required." 



At the Colorado National Apple Exposi- 

 tion held at Denver last month, 16 states 

 were represented and, while the exhibits 

 were small in comparison with those from 

 Colorado, the character of the fruit was 

 such as to leave doubt in the minds of the 

 judges where honors really belonged. Geo- 

 gia sent 15 boxes and Oregon, Washington, 

 Montana, Utah and New Mexico about 30 

 boxes each. Then there were- mixed ex- 

 hibits also from Maryland, Pennsylvania, 

 Michigan, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Mis- 

 souri, Idaho and California. 



At a meeting of the directors of the On- 

 tario Horticultural Exhibition held in To- 

 ronto last month, it was decided to broad- 

 en out that show along similar, but more 

 restricted, lines to that of the Spokane and 

 other western shows. The Ontario Fruit 

 Growers' Association has decided to dupli- 

 cate any grant from a county to put up an 

 exhibit, up to the extent of $50 each, pro- 

 vided such exhibit contains a certain quan- 

 tity of fruit in commercial packages. This 

 and similar ideas will be worked out dur- 

 ing the summer in order that the Ontario 

 Horticultuial Exhibition next fall will be 

 greater than ever in extent and influence. 



Last month a number of horticultural so- 

 cieties in Ontario had the pleasure and 

 privilege of hearing some excellent illus- 

 trated addresses by Miss Louise Klein Mil- 

 ler, curator of school gardens, Cleveland, 

 Ohio. Much information was given that 

 will help to make our homes, schools and 

 municipalities more beautiful. The places 

 visited by Miss Miller were Windsor, Lon- 

 don, Guelph, Gait, Toronto, Ottawa, 

 Smith's Falls, Perth, Brantford and St. 

 Catharines. 



