June, rgio 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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The music In your soul can all 

 be expressed with a 



New Scali Williams Player Piano 



This nurrallous musical Instrument 

 savM you the years of practice— the 

 endless expense— of trainine the fingers 

 to WrUce the keys of a piano correctly. 



Th« New Scale Williams Player 

 Piano does the merely mechanical part 

 of piano playing:. 



It leaves all the beauty of the inuMo fcr vmi 

 to express as you wllL You i-*n really 'put 

 your whole houI" Into miuic with tha H%vr SlsUo 

 WilllaTiis Player Piano. 



W bora \re have no regular ajreut. W(» will 

 •end tbesa Waver PlanoBou ftpproval-Huni muke 

 the terms conrenlent Write ua. 



Tlia Williams Piano C«. Limited, • Ishawa. Int. 



Branch Offices: 



Winnipeg, Man.. 323 Portape Ave. 



Montreal, Que., 733 St. Cc'.berine St. W. 



London, Ont., ,, 261 DundasSt. 



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SPRAYER 



BEST HAND-SPRAYER MADE AT THE PRICE 

 READ THE FOLLOWING: 



Winona, Ont. 

 "The Sprayer that I pur- 

 chased from you laet spring 

 is a most valuable little ma- 

 chine. I have no hesitation 

 In recommending it to anyone who requires 

 an inexpensive and reliable spray pump. It 

 is excellent, and I do not know of any other 

 hand machine for the price that could do 

 better work." „ „ 



B. D, Smith, Ex-M.P., 

 President Ont. Fruit Growers' Ass'n. 

 Apply to your dealer or drop us a card for 

 Descriptive Circular. 



CAVEIS BROS,, Manufacturers, Salt, Out. 



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DO YOU INTEND BLILDING 



A HOUSE, BARN 

 GREENHOUSE or SILO? 



Send us your List of Rough or 

 Dressed Lumber, Lath, Doors, 

 Sash or anything you may require 

 in Woodwork for Building Con- 

 struction and we will quote you 

 promptly. 



JOHN B. SMITH & SONS, Limited 



TORONTO 



Established 1851 



The Common Crab Apple 



From "The Apples ot New York" by Beach 



The crab apples which we cultivate for 

 their fruit are for the most part hybrids 

 ouo.ieen the apple, fyrus malus, and the 

 t-.aiKuive Siberian crab, or berry crab, 

 called by Linnaeus fyrus baa-ata. lliis 

 species, baccata, in its pure forms, is read- 

 ily distinguished from the apple, f. malus. 

 The calyx is eventually deciduous, instead 

 of persistent. The leaves are firm, smooth, 

 bright green and are borne on long, slender 

 hard leaf-stalks. The twigs are smooth and 

 slender. The ripe fruit is brilliant in col- 

 or, red or yellow, does not get mellow, va- 

 ries from three-eighths to three-fourths of 

 au inch in diameter, and is borne on long, 

 slender stalks. The flowers are large and 

 usually pure white. In some of the hybrids, 

 as for example, Martha and Currant, the 

 calyx is on some fruits deciduous, or partly 

 so, while on other fruits borne on the same 

 tree, the entire calyx may be persistent ; 

 also the fruit is large and it is clear that 

 other characters which they show are de- 

 rived wholly or in part from either baccata 

 on the one hand or from malus on the other. 



It is well to remark that the name crab 

 apple is not applied exclusively to tue Si- 

 berian crabs and their hybrids, but is pop- 

 ularly used to designate indiscriminately 

 small apples whether of the malus species 

 or of some other species, but the terra Si- 

 berian crab is properly used to indicate the 

 baccata species and its kin. 



Box-Packed Apples in England 



M. Mussen, Canadian Trade Commissioner, Leeds 



One of the most important changes which 

 the past season's trade in Canadian apples 

 has brought to light in this part of Eng- 

 land is the greatly imjiroved popularity of 

 box-packed apples. Many merchants now 

 declare themselves to be whole-heartedly in 

 favour of this system of packing apples in 

 bushel boxes. 



Not only are these boxes, they say, more 

 conveniently stored on the ship, but they 

 are easier to handle in their warehouses, 

 and meet a long felt want in supplying the 

 demands of small retailers who cannot dis- 

 pose quickly of the larger amount of apples 

 contained in the ordinary barrel. Although, 

 of course, the retail price of the apples is 

 slightly higher than that charged for fruit 

 in barrels, yet the attractiveness of the 

 packing and the selectness of the apples 

 themselves is declared to be usually found 

 sufficient to counterbalance any disadvan- 

 tage in this respect. — Extract from Weekly 

 lleport of the JJepartment of Trade and 

 Commerce, Ottawa. 



Spruce Gall-Louse 



In many parts of Ontario spruce trees 

 and hedges are infested with the spruce gall- 

 louse. The usual remedy advocated for its 

 control is kerosene emulsion. That the 

 lime-sulphur wash may prove to be an- 

 other valuable remedy is intimated in the 

 following extract from bulletin No. 177, re- 

 cently issued by the Ontario Agricultural 

 (JoUege : 



"So many enquiries have come to the de- 

 I)artment of entomology for the best remedy 

 for the spruce gall-louse that it seems de- 

 sirable to mention here that contrary to 

 writers' expectation one thorough applica- 

 tion of the home-boiled wash applied tlu^ 

 first week in May exterminated these in- 

 sects on Mr. J. \V. Smith's beautiful spruce 

 hedge at Winona. The date above given 

 or the last week in April is the proper time 

 to do the spraying." 



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Dreer't, Rawson's and Herbert^* 

 L&teit Introductions 



For Spring Planting 



Dahlias 



SPECIAL TRIAL OFFER 



20 Different Varieties, all correctly labelled, sent 

 postpaid to any addre-ss for One Dollar, or 30 Mixed 

 Varieties (unnamed) for the same price. 



^^I^rlffvlj Rawson's Child's and Groff's 



^ "•"*'-'** mixed and named varieties. A 

 fine assortment at Lowest Prices. 



W. D. BOTHWELL 



BARRIE, ONT. 



FOR SALE 



Four Hundred Acre 



FRUIT FARM 



Twenty-one thousand Elberta and Sal- 

 way trees, five and six years old, thorough- 

 ly cultivated and thrifty. Eleven acres 

 strawberries^ Ideal situation in peach 

 and berry belt, one mile from county seat 

 and railroads. In famous Fort Smith Nat- 

 ural Gas and Smokeless Coal Fields. Good 

 stock and implements, including steam 

 plant and power sprayer. Price twenty- 

 five thousand dollars. 



THE NORMS FRUIT FARM CO. 



FORT SiWITH, Arkansas 



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