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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



April, i9»o 



Have Your Hat 

 Match Your Gown 



Make your last year's straw 

 hat as fre.^h and dainty as any 

 you can buy, by coloring it 

 with 



Anchor Straw 

 Hat Enamel 



It makes soiled Straw Hats 

 as good as new — and you may 

 have your hat the same shade 

 as your summer dress. 



Made in 21 fashionable and 

 popular colors. 



Ask your dealer for Anchor 

 Straw Hat Enamel or send 15 

 cents for sample tin, stating 

 color wanted, to 



BRANDRAM-nENDERSON, 

 i^^a^BB^lla^Ba UMITED. 



MONTREAL, HALIFAX, ST. JOHN, 

 TORONTO WINNIPEG. 51 



CHOICE MIXED DAHLIAS 



All the new show Cactus and 

 standard Dahlias. All varieties 

 named or mixed for spring 

 planting. All home grown 

 and finest forms and colors. 

 By mail or express at lowest 

 popular prices at once. 



Address all orders early to 



J. T. PAYNE 



Strathroy, 



Ontario 



Shipping Pears to Glasgow 



J. 0. Dike, Ruthvan, Ont. 



I have shipped two carloads of pears, 

 mostly KiefFer, to Glasgow, one last year 

 and one the year before, and while neither 

 sliipment was very profitable, still the 

 balance has always been on the right side. 



We begin picking about Oct. 1, and us- 

 ually can get the car away in seven or 

 eight days. The fruit is carefully picked 

 and put in crates and immediately hauled 

 to packing house. No fruit is left out all 

 night. It is always kept cool and dry. None 

 but uniform and perfect specimens are taken 

 and each fruit is wrapped in paper and 

 packed in half size boxes, 5 in. x 11 in. x 20 

 in. 



We ship in a refrigerator car and if the 

 weather is warm we ice the car. We ship 

 in cold storage on the steamer, and the fruit 

 arrives in first-class shape. The fruit sells 

 at a fair price ; Kieff^ers at 2s. 9d ; Law- 

 rence, Clairgeau, and Anjou at about 4s ; 

 and Duchess, at about 4s. 6d. per half 

 case ; but the charges are enormous. 



We hear of the Old Country laborer be- 

 ing poorly paid, but I cannot believe that 

 any more, for on looking over the account 

 sale of these cars we find that it costs near- 

 ly half as much to remove the fruit from 

 steamship after it is tied up, as it does to 

 pay the freight both inland and ocean from 

 here to Scotland. Here are the items of last 

 car; Freight £60, lis., lOd ; porterage, etc., 

 £24, 16s., 6d. This amounts to about 21 

 cents a box for freight and 9 cents a box 

 for porterage and other charges. 



Free Book on Spraying. — A most reliable 

 and interesting treatise on spraying and one 

 which should be in the hands of every fruit 

 grower is that published by the Goulds 

 Manufacturing Company, Seneca Falls, 

 N.Y., entitled "How to Spray — When to 

 Spray — What Sprayers to Use." This book, 

 as its name applies, covers the subject thor- 

 oughly. It tells just the proper time to 

 spray most effectively for all kinds of insects, 

 fungi, etc., and contains complete formula 

 for the preparation of all spraying mix- 

 tures. It also illustrates methods of spray- 

 ing and describes the extensive line of re- 

 liable spraying outfits made by this well 

 known company. Write for a copy. 



Geo. Keith & Sons, seedsmen, Toronto, 

 have for years been best known for the 

 high quality of their farm seeds. They now 

 aim to become equally well known through 

 their flower and garden seeds, and to that 

 end are devoting special attention to the 

 .selection of varieties and quality in Keith's 

 Selected Strain of flower and garden seeds 

 See their advertisement on another page. 



Our "Champion" is easily the champioB 

 •f all washing machines. 



All cogs and machinery covered. 



Lever and High Speed Balance Wheel 

 operating together simply cut the work 

 •{ washing to the lowest possible point. 



Doa't think of baylar a washing I 

 lUitU you haTc »«n the ''Champioa". Ifywor 

 dealer can't show it, write m for booklet. 7* 



•AVn MAXWELL k SANS. 



ST. HUrS. AlfT. 



'Turns ihe soil 

 better" 



Because of their 

 shape. plates 

 of " Bissel 1" 

 Orchard Harrows turn over soii cleaner, 

 better than you've been accustomed to 

 have it done. Attach wings and Harrow 

 extends out 12 ft. or more to cultivate 

 under limns of trees — closes up narrow 

 enough to cultivate between grape vines. 

 Combination Harrow too— reversible 

 from "Out Throw" to "In Throw." 

 Low seat, well-braced frame. Ask your 

 dealer for information or write Dtpt. N. 

 T. E. BIssell Co. Ltd., Elora, Ont. 



BUILT IN SIZES FOR ONE, TWO AND THREE HORSES 



Get one of our Fountain Pens. 



N. B. POTATOES 



Can supply seed potatoes of the follow- 

 ing l?inds: Green Motmtains, Empire State, 

 Carman. Beauty of Hebron, Early Queen, 

 Early Bose, Delaware. 



Will guarantee stock true to name. 



GEO. A. FAWCETT '«'«°'-=^*c'<v.lue 





This shows the H.P. Spramotor ar- 

 ranged for spraying potatoes, three 

 nozzles to a row and four rows, two 

 spraying from the sides and one from 

 the top, adjustable as to height and 

 width up to 40-in. rows. Nozzles ab- 

 solutely will not clog. 1 2- gallon air- 

 tank, automatic and hand controlled; 

 100 lbs. pressure guaranteed with 12 

 nozzles open. An acre can be sprayed 

 in 20 minutes. Has agitator clean-out 

 pressure relief into tank, and nozzle 

 protector all under control of the driver 

 from seat. For i or 2 horses. Fitted 

 for orchard, vineyards and grain. This 

 ad. will not appear again in this paper. 



Heard Spramotor Co. 



1398 King St. - London, Ont. 



