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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



July, 1910 



They work like Kodaks. 



The Book of the 



BROWNIES 



At your dealer's or fne from us bv 

 mail, explains in detail all about these 

 little cameras and how they have made 

 picture taking simple and inexjyens- 

 ive. 



Brownie Cameras use the daylight 

 loading film cartridges — .just like a 

 Kodak — are efficient, durable and 

 practical little instruments. Anybody 

 can make good pictures with a 

 Brownie without previous experience. 



The illustration ehows the new No. 2A Folding 

 Pocket Brownie, for 2% by 4>i pictures, price 

 $7.00. A box-form Brownie lor pictures of the 

 same size costs only 13.00. But first get the 

 hook or ask the dealer tii show you the line of 

 Brownie Cameras from $1.00 to 112.00 



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 HAMILTON ONTARIO 



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Toronto, Ont. 



The growth in the con8unii)tion of fruit 

 in Toronto during the last ten years has 

 been astonishing. Only a few years ago 

 8,000 baskets of peaches were .all that were 

 handled in a season. Now that much is 

 sometimes handled in a day. Less than 10 

 years ago there were not more than 1.5 

 wagons employed in handling the wholesale 

 fruit business. Now there are over 1.50. 

 Ten years ago there was no importing done 

 from California. Last season White & Co., 

 alone brought in 52 carloads of peaches, 

 l)ears, plums, grapes and apricots. Thii 

 firm expects to handle 80 cars or so this 

 summer. 



The growth in the trade is causing an agi- 

 tation to have a large fruit market estab- 

 lished at a point central to the rail;'o-.'ds and 

 boats. A special committee of the city 

 council has the matter in hand. 



Unusually high prices have been paid for 

 strawberries this season. Wholesale prices 

 have ranged at 17o. to 20c. a box. 



British ^Columbia 



Last year Mr. J. C. Metcalfe, on behalf 

 of British Columbia fruit growers, visited 

 practically every town in Alberta and Sas- 

 katchewan as a special market commission- 

 er to study the requirements of the markets 

 at first hand. In his report to the members 

 of the British Columbia Fruit Growers' As- 

 sociation Mr. Metcalfe has given his con- 

 clusions as follows : 



I found the market for British Columbia 

 fruit almost unlimited. The population of 

 the prairies is increasing very rapidly, and 

 the wealth, and consequently the fruit con- 

 sumption, per capita, is increasing rapidly 

 also. British Columbia is the natural fruit- 

 producing country for this territory, and 

 every effort should be made to supply it. 



All over the prairies, the opinions of 

 wholesalers and retailers of fruit were se- 

 cured, particularly with regard to necessary 

 improvements in methods of packing and 

 grading, and comparison with American and 

 Ontario fruit. In small fruits, the con- 

 sensus of opinion was very favorable as to 

 the quality, but grading and packing must 

 be considerably improved. Uniformity of 

 size of fruit is greatly prized, and strawber- 

 ries, raspberries and blackberries, should be 

 graded into large and small. 



Cherries have not been regarded as favor- 

 ably as the smaller fruits, chiefly from the 

 custom of shipping coast fruit as far as 

 Winnipeg. Our coast fruit should be 

 shipped principally to Alberta and Sas- 

 katchewan markets by expr.ss. The same 

 is true of plums from the Lower Mainland. 



Peaches and pears from the Okanagan, 

 and pears from the Lower Mainland and 

 Vancouver Island also, compare favorably 

 with American fruit as to flavor, color and 

 packing. 



British Columbia apples are highly 

 esteemed. Much of the picking is equal to 

 ."nything from the American side, while the 

 color and flavor are quite as good as the 

 best Ontario apples. In some districts, very 

 much improvement must be made in spray- 

 ing pruning and thinning, in order to pro- 

 duce the best fruits. 



British Columbia growers must increase 

 their supply as rapidly as possible, aiming 

 at carload lots from every shipping point. 

 The grower should aim to grow the varieties 

 'le-st adapted to his district and to his mar- 

 kets. 



The fruit jobbing trade of the prairie 

 provinces is to a very considerable extent in 

 .\merican hands. Despite this, they seemed 

 to desire to handle British Columbia fruit 

 whenever they could get a sufficient supply. 



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"China-Lac" is one of the greatest 

 money savers you can have in the house. 



A 15c. can of'-China Lac'issuflQcient 

 to make an old, scratcheti, scarred chair 

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40c. invested in "China-I^c" will give 

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