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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



May, 1910 



Garden freshness of "SALADA" 



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Fresh and fragrant from the gardens of the finest tea- 

 producing country in the world. Ask your grocer for 

 a package to-day you'll like it. 



W A-PHU-CO 



Canadian Made 



No doubt you will agree that if quality and price are equal every 

 Canadian should buy Canadian made goods in preference to any others. 



Not only is it patriotic — it's sound common sense. The money 

 Bpent for Canadian goods goes to build up Canadian industries and 

 prosperity, and makes it easier for every Canadian to earn a good 

 living. 



On the other hand, money spent for foreign made goods goes out 

 of the country to pay foreigners — not to benefit Canadians. 



Toilet and Medicinal Preparations are compounded in Canada from 

 tlie purest ingredients which money can buy. The National Drug and 

 Chemical Company of Canada returns to Canadians in employees' 

 salaries, dividends and other expense disbursements, close to One 

 Million Dollars a year. In addition to this we spend millions every 

 year in Canada for raw materials, tins, bottles, labels, boxes and 

 other supplies, giving employment to hundreds of Canadian tinsmiths, 

 glass workers, paper makers, printers, lithographers, box makers, 

 and others. 



So even if NA-DRU-CO goods were only "jt:st as good" as those 

 imported from other countries, you would be following a sensible and 

 patriotic course in buying them. 



As a matter of fact, though, NA-DRU-CO Toilet and Medicinal 

 Preparations are better than those imported. Try NA-DRU-CO 

 Talcum Powder, NA-DRU-CO Greaseless Toilet Cream, NA-DRU-CO 

 Tasteless Cod Liver Oil Compound or any other NA-DRU-CO pre- 

 paration, and see for yourself. 



You risk nothing in making the test, for if the NA-DRU-CO 

 article does not entirely satisfy you, return it and your druggist 

 will refund your money. 



National Drug and Chemical Company 



of Canada, Limited. 



Halifax. St. John, Montreal, Ottawa, Kinnton. Toronto, Hamilton. London, 

 Winnipeg, Resina, Calgary, Nelson, Vancouver, Victoria. |2 



nnl la-,1 season slioiild ni(t liavo l.(!On repcatf'd. 



yWhethor the fault lies with the methods 

 on this side of the water or the other is 

 liard to tell. It certainly seems as if we 

 wore being handled to make the apple si)ec- 

 ulators and English brokers wealthy. Prices 

 for hard fruit have keep under $2 net ex- 

 cept in the case of Spys and Golden Rus- 

 sets. 



The spraying season with its new meth- 

 ods, mixtures and perplexities is at hand 

 at;ain. It would almost seem as if the old 

 reliable Bordeaux were losing its popular- 

 ity and lime-sulphur were to take its plat-e. 

 Of tliis jnixture, public opinion seems to be 

 divided as to the greater efficiency of the 

 home-boiled or the commercially prepared. 

 Two brands of the latter are on the market, 

 and we hope that the prepared may prove 

 as efficient at least as the home-Loiled, for 

 the trouble and discomfort of making the 

 latter is certainly against its use. 



The horticultural experiment station has 

 at last been purchased, the choice being a 

 farm about one-half mile from Kentville. 

 The difficulty now seems to be to get a di- 

 rector. Qualified horticulturists seem to be 

 scarce. 



Good Ontario Apples 



The Canadian Horticulturist recently 

 received the following interesting letter 

 from a British Columbia subscriber, evident- 

 ly once a resident of Ontario : 



"The article on page 73, March issue, 

 'Ontario vs. British Columbia,' has ruffled 

 me up sufficiently to make me write a few 

 lines to you. I hope you can find room and 

 that tliey will do good. We never see any- 

 thing about Ontario fruit in our local Brit- 

 ish Columbia papers, but in tue same strain ; 

 same with the prairie papers; and though 

 I read Ontario papers whenever I can, am 

 forced to say, almost same with Ontario 

 papers. Can the fruit grower be clubbed 

 into careful methods? Why not tell him 

 how some up-to-date Ontario grower (and 

 there are a few of them) has raised his per- 

 centage of No. 1 apples by spraying, has 

 sold at top price on account of good grad- 

 ing and packing and how much more a con- 

 signment of boxed apples netted than an 

 equal bulk of barrelled apples." Some of 

 these co-operative fruit shippers associa- 

 tions, of which I understand there are now 

 a lot in Ontario, must be marketing their 

 output at figures which would look well in 

 print. 



"Your growers there should get more op- 

 timistic about those toothsome Ontario ap- 

 ples and their possibilities ; also they should 

 get the box idea for their choice fruit as 

 soon as they can; there is money in it. I 

 think I noticed a firm in Burlington ad- 

 vertising boxed apples sent to Great Brit- 

 ain; if requested, money refunded if unsat- 

 isfactory. A few more such enterprising 

 concerns would put Ontario's apple reputa- 

 tion in the ascendency." 



The Kaslo District (B. C.) Horticultural 

 and Fruit Growers' Association will hold a 

 Kootenav Lake Apple Show during the third 

 week of October, 1910. Prizes will be award- 

 ed for plates, single boxes, three-box exhib- 

 its and five-box exhibits. The secretary of 

 the show is Mr. W. Johnson, Kaslo, B. C. 



The Manitoba Horticultural and Forestry 

 Association is planning for a banner year. 

 Excellent premiums are offered to members. 

 All persons in the west who are interested 

 in the culture of fruits, vegetables, flowers, 

 ornamentals or in forestry, should join this 

 association. Communicate with the secre- 

 tary, Prof. F. W. Brodrick, Manitoba Agri- 

 cultural College, Winnipeg. 



