December, 1910 



THE CANADIAN HOETICULT URIST 



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been withheld from the Experimental ship- 

 ments to Great Britain were also on dis- 

 play. The apples from New Brunswick that 

 were shown were richly colored and well 

 packed. They were the best exhibited from 

 any outside province. 



MONEY IN OLD ORCHARDS 



An exhibit which showed clearly that it 

 pays to give old orchards good care was 

 that made by the branch of the Department 

 of Agriculture in Simcoe county. The fruit 

 which was equal in qualitv to the best had 

 all been taken from the demonstration or- 

 chards conducted by Mr. I. F. Metcalf. 

 For somo vears, until this year, these or- 

 chards had produced little but number two 

 apples and culls. In the centre of the ex- 

 hibit were photographs showing the con- 

 dition of the orchards before and after 

 treatment this year. 



Canned fruit formed a prominent part 

 of the exhibit from Prince Edward County. 

 Baked apples were given away to demon- 

 .strate the superior cooking quality of 

 Prince Edward Tolman Sweets. The Jor- 

 dan Experiment Station included in its ex- 

 hibit apples from sprayed and unsprayed 

 trees which demonstrated that it pays to 

 spray. 



Criticisms of the packing of the fruit 



were given by Prof. J. W. Crow, Guelph. 

 According to Prof. Crow the packing this 

 year showed a decided improvement. In 

 most cases the boxes were just full enough 

 and with the proper bilge. Criticisms of 

 the barrel classes were made by P. J. 

 Carey, Dominion Fruit Inspector. 



Several concerns made displays of spray- 

 ing machinery. An exhibit made by The 

 Niagara Brand Co., attracted particular 

 attention. A picture of a tree, natural 

 size, was sprayed and the simplicity of the 

 operation was evident to all. 



Altogether this exhibition was the most 

 successful ever held by the growers' associ- 

 ation. "It's great. I don't knew what 

 you brought me over here for," said Mr. 

 B. J. Case, President of the New York 

 State Fruit Growers' Association, who had 

 come over at the request of the association. 

 "The possibilities of Ontario as evidenced 

 by the fruit on exhibition at this fair, are 

 enormous." Similar expressions were heard 

 from other visitors. The success of the 

 exhibition was sc great that on all sides 

 the view was freely expressed that a Na- 

 tional Apple Show should be held in On- 

 tario next year. A move in this direction 

 has already been made. Ontario could make 

 a great success of such a show. 



Ontario Horticultural Association Convention 



THE Fifth Annual Convention of the 

 Ontario Horticultural Association, 

 held in Toronto, Ont., Nov. 17, 18, 

 showed that excellent work had been 

 accomplished by the horticiiltural societies 

 of the province during the past year. The 

 president, Mr. R,. B. Whyte, of Ottawa, 

 pointed out that the ideal of the associa- 

 tion should be to have an assembly of dele- 

 gates to represent the whole province to 



devise the best means cf advancing the 

 interests of all the societies. He showed 

 that the persistent efforts of the association 

 had secured from the government an in- 

 crease of twenty-flve per cent, in the 

 government grant to the local societies 

 The association shot:ld also receive credit 

 for the excellent reports issued during the 

 last four years. The societies which are 

 doing the best work are those which aflBli- 



"The Aphine bos been severely tested, 

 having passed expectations. Used it upon 

 mealy bug, scale, fly and spider without 

 injury to the foliage whatsoever. For red 

 .spider used it one part to 15 parts water 

 with the best possible, results. I consider 

 Aphine is far ahead of any insecticides I 

 have used in England, having had good ex- 

 perience with same there." 



"The above is the report of my green- 

 house foreman, and from my own observa- 

 tions the results are eminently satisfac- 

 tory in every respect. Yon have at last 

 put on the market an insecticide that does 

 all claimed for it and more." 



(Signed) Joseph Bobinson, Snpt. to Col- 

 gate Hoyt, Oyster Bay, Long Island. 



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