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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



January, 1912 



You can make 

 Pictures at night 



It's all very simple with a 



KODAK 



and the Eastman Flash Sheets. There's 

 fun in making^ the pictures and pleasure 

 afterwards in possessinj^ pictures of your 

 friends. 



Ask your dealer, or write us for a copy 

 of " By Flashlight," an illustrated book 

 that tells just how to get the best results. 



CANADIAN KODAK CO. uMiTEf) 

 TORONTO, CANADA 



FERRYS" 



^^ B E 1^ CI Good gardeners 

 ^^CC^^are those wbo 

 raisegood flow- 

 ers and vegetables. Good 

 flowers and vegetables come 

 from good seeds. Vv'e pro- 

 duce good seeds— the infer- 

 ence is obviOLS. For sale 

 everywhere. 



1912 SEED ANNUAL 

 Free on Request 

 D.SLFERKY&CO. 

 Windsor, Onf^ 



STRAWS ERRTIsk'^^ 



rianta by the dozen or by the million . 

 120 acres planted In 103 vailetie«. AJ. 

 the tttatidardeaodthe most promising <>l 

 the new ones. Largest giower In 

 America. Every plant true to name. 

 Also Raspberry, BIacl£berry,Goo8eberr\ 

 and Currant Plants, Grape Vines, Cali- 

 fornia Privet and other Shrubbery. 

 |Ciiltural directions ■with each ship- 

 ment. Beautiful CfttaloKueFUKK. ^^en^i 

 a postal today. My personal guarantee 

 Lack of every sale. 



W. F. ALLEN 

 111 Market Street, Salisbury, Md. 



^m 



Ton can onltlTate be- 

 tween berry bushes when 

 the Bissell Garden Disc 

 Harrow is closed np, or 

 under fruit trees with 

 wings added. Adjustable— for single horse, 

 or light two horse harrow. Low or high 

 seat. Eeversible— In-Throw to Out Throw. 

 Remember, no harrow is genuine without 

 Bissell name dlamped on it. Ask local deal- 

 er about the Bissell or write Dept. N for 

 Oatalog. 



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



The Bissell 



GARDEN IH ARROWS 1 



See adTortisement of Bissell Orchard Disc 

 page X. 



Dominion Fruit Conference 



The Canadian Horticulturist has not re- 

 ceived a program for the Dominion Fruit 

 Conference that it is expected will be held 

 in Ottawa, February 20-22. From a British 

 Columbia paper, however, we see that it is 

 expected that Mr. W. H. Bunting, of St. 

 Catharines, Ont., who has been visiting the 

 fruit districts of Canada and the Pacific 

 coast states on behalf of the Dominion go- 

 vernment, will give an address at the con- 

 ference. His address will be followed by 

 a full report published as a bulletin by the 

 Federal government. 



Other features will be an address by W. T. 

 Macoun, the Dominion Horticulturist, on 

 "New Varieties of Fruit," a jjaper by 

 Alexander McNeil, Chief of the Fruit Divi- 

 sion, on "Cooperation in iTuit Marketing," 

 and also, possibly, a paper by J. A. Rud- 

 dick, the commissioner in charge, on the 

 subject of cold storage in its applications 

 to the fruit industry. 



An interesting feature will be an exhibit 

 of fruit from the various producing dis- 

 tricts of Canada, which will be represented 

 by one box each of the twenty or thirty 

 varieties most commonly produced. 



Arrangements have already been made for 

 the collection of the requisite fruit in 

 British Columbia. Fruit is being collected 

 not only from the provinces of Canada, but 

 from Oregon, Washington, Virginia, New 

 York, etc. The comparisons that will be 

 made will be of much value to the delegates. 



Extracts will be made from the census re- 

 turns, to show the progress and size of the 

 fruit industry in the various provinces and 

 in the Dominion as a whole. Short ad- 

 dresses will be given by the delegates, in- 

 dicating briefly tue progress being made in 

 their special districts. 



A National. Apple Show 



Two news despatches that have reached 

 The Canadian Hortioultuhist give reason 

 to believe that Eastern Canada may have a 

 national apple show next fall after all, and 

 that it will be held either in Toronto or 

 Montreal, and be backed by the Dominion 

 Government. The first despatch was re- 

 ceived from Spokane, Wash., and was in 

 jiart as follows : 



William H. Bunting, of St. Catharines, 

 Ont., official representative of the Dominion 

 Department of Agriculture, who is making 

 a tour of the Canadian and American north- 

 west, said in the course of an interview in 

 Spokane that he is visiting the various fruit 

 districts in this part of the country to 

 gather data and other information for use 

 in the event it is decided to hold a national 

 apple show in Canada next fall. It is likely 

 that Toronto will be the exhibition city. 



"Growers in all parts of Canada, as well 

 as in the United States, will be invited to 

 compete for substantial prizes and hand- 

 some trophies," Mr. Bunting said, "and we 

 expect to have an exposition which will at- 

 tiract many from the so-called Spokane 

 country and other parts of the north-west- 

 ern states. We shall have a building of 

 sufficiently large dimensions to accommodate 

 from thirty to thirty-five cars of apples for 

 exhibition purposes, and afford every facil- 

 ity for the display of fruit." 



MONTREAL ACTIVE 



The second despatch was from Montreal, 

 and appeared in a leading British Columbia 

 daily paper. It' was as follows : 



"Montreal will, next year, probably be 

 the scene of a national fruit exhibition on 

 the same big scale as marked the National 

 Apple show at Vancouver a couple of years 

 ago. It is proposed that an exhibition of 

 what is regarded as Canada's national fruit. 



PRUNING SAW 



Oi"Tfit<-N frtiNi KnuirM No breaking of liiiiht «» 

 by climbinK. No riioviuj; of ta-lili-rs. No aawtng \^ ^9™* 

 of vrong llmbi. Cmh r<^a£ti topmont braucbi^a aiid 

 ihape tree bciu-r than by old methods. Will saw Ita 

 co«tlnoaedaj. Nothing to icct out of order. Will laat 

 for years. TluiU"ai.di In uw. Uecomracndod hj 

 If your dealer cari'l furniwh It. write fo» -ull 

 circular and pricfw. HatliractiuD K^iiranii 



FRUITGROWERS' SAW C0.» Scoitsvllle. N. Y. 



Rcpresentjitive for Ontnrio. Chas. E- Boyd, 

 Siincne, Ont- 



Ihj all Dsera. ^ 

 ull (t«^«rlt>iive Tt 

 UU-'-ii. Adrlr.im * 



A Science 



Treo Trimnjing is a science 

 and the man intelhgent enough 

 to do this work properly is too 

 good a man to have his arms 

 pulled off. hie. ba-ck broken or 

 bis head smashed by a fall when 

 all this can be avoided. HOW? 

 Just by UHing the KANSAS PRUN- 

 ING KNirE, improved, the most 

 up-to-date knife made. It is auto- 

 matic, no levers to work by band, 

 any length of handle can be used 

 so all the work can be done from 

 the ground, where the operator can 

 see what to take out and what to 

 leave. The KANSAS PKUNING 

 KNIFE docs heavy work and does it 

 fast. It is made of the very flneet 

 material and made to last. 



May we send you our circulars 

 telling more abojit this knife and 

 al.»o about our HAPPY THOUGHT KNIFE 

 and what owners say about them. 



Made by the Taylor-Forbes Co., Guelph. Ont. 

 INTERNATIONAL TOOL COMPANY 



49-51 Porter Street. - Detroit, Micbi an 



Strawberry Plants 



FOR SALE 



We have a fine lot of plant.s for spring 

 delivery. Best varieties for home, 

 jfarden and commercial g^rowers. List 

 will be ready early In January. Send 

 for it now. 



Place your order early as 

 PLANTS ARE SCARCE 



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