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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



February, 1910 



When Ordering Your 



STRAWBERRY 

 PLANTS 



Order from the old reliable 

 Plant Grower 



W. H. VANDERBURG 



Poplar Hill, Ont. 



He excels in 



A Choice Selection of Varieties 



Uniform Excellence of Stock 



Moderation in Prices 



Promptness, Honesty, Reliability 

 and Courtesy in Dealing 



Send for 1910 Price List at once 



W. H. VANDERBURG 



POPLAR HILL, ONT. 



Okanagan valley. Mr. B. McDonald of the 

 Farmers' Exchange packing house took a 

 quantity of fruit to the fair, from various 

 growers. According to the Courier he 

 made 251 entries, and won 71 firsts and 197 

 prizes in all, the following remarkable 

 scores being made : Pears, on plates, 51 

 exhibits, 48 prizes won ; crab apples, on 

 plates, 15 exhibits, 14 prizes ; apples, best 

 pack, 3 exhibits, 3 prizes ; pears, best pack, 

 2 exhibits, 2 prizes; apples, 5 boxes each 

 kind, 19 exhibits, 18 prizes ; pears, 2 boxes 

 oacli kind, 5 exhibits, 5 prizes. 



In many instances all prizes in a elass 

 went *o Kelowna exhibits, and this in face 

 of competition with other points in the 

 Okanagan valley and all the provinces. In 

 plate exhibits, first, second and third prizes 

 all came to Kelowna for the following ap- 

 ples : Winter Banana, Cox's Orange, Golden 

 Russet, Duchess, Gravenstein, Jeffries, 

 Wolf liiver, Hubbardston, Longfield, Ontar- 

 io, Roxbury Russet, Sutton Beauty, Stark, 

 Seek, Mcintosh, Wagener, Jonathan, New- 

 town Pippin; and the following pears: 

 Flemish Beauty, Louise Bonne de Jersey, 

 Howell, Sheldon, Duchess, Boussock, Clair- 

 geau. Winter Nelis, Beurre Bosc, Idaho, 

 Vicar of Winkfield. 



Imperial Bank 



OF CANADA 



HEAD OFFICE -TORONTO 

 Capital Authorized. $10,000,000.00 

 Capital Paid-up. . 5.000.000.00 

 Reserve Fund . 5.000.000.00 



D. K. WILKIE. President 

 HON. K. JAFFKAY, Tioe-Presldent 



Drainohos and Ag^encie* throug^hout 

 the Dominion oT Canada. 



DrafU, MoneT Ordera and Letters of Credit 



tKsued available in any part of the world 

 Special attention given to collections 



Savings Department— Interest allowed on de- 

 posits fr'<>m date of deposit. 



Manitoba 



Thousands of dollars are lost by the farm- 

 ers of Manitoba each year by buying worth. 

 less horticultural trees and shrubs from 

 American nurserymen. Last fall the edi- 

 tor of Farm Crops travelled through south- 

 ern Manitoba and for several days he travel- 

 led in company with a pair of American 

 salesmen representing a well known Min- 

 nesota nurseryman. At each town these 

 salesmen were making their deliveries, and 

 very arrogant they were about it. 



In the summer these slick talkers had 



GLADIOLI 



Groff's Ne^v Named Varieties 

 Groff's Worlds Fair Collection 

 Groff Seedlings 

 Special Collections for Horticultural 



Societies 

 Also Cannas, Dahlias and General 



Nursery Stock 



Catalogue upon application 



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CAMPBELL BROS., 



SIMCOE 

 ONT. 



POTASH MEANS PROFIT 



Cabbage grown with the aid ofja Complete Fertilizer containing Potash (1909) 



This illustration shows some Cabbages grown on the farm of Mr. Jas. Williamson. CcJgary, 

 Alta.. who finds it profitable to use over 1000 lbs. of a Complete Fertilizer on this crop. 



to the up to date Orchardist and Market 

 Gardener. 



The use of Commercial Fertilizers 



has been endorsed by practically all 

 Agricultural Institutions in the Dominion. 



Potash must form one of the ingred- 

 ients of a "Complete Fertilizer" in order 

 to obtain the most profitable returns. 



Potash can be obtained of all leading 

 fertilizer dealers in concentrated forms of 

 Sulphate and Muriate of Potash. 



Write us on all matters pertaining to 

 this most important question and get 

 copies of our Free publications, includ- 

 ing: 



"Fertilizers; their Nature and Use" 

 "Fertiliring Orchard and Garden" 

 ■'Potato Crop in Canada" 

 "Farmer's Companion" 

 "Fertilizing Root Crops and Vege- 

 tables, etc., etc." 



DOMINION OFFICES 



OF THE 



POTASH SYNDICATE 



1102-1105 TEMPLE BUILDING, TORONTO 



