February, 1912 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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Quebec Vegetable Growers' Convention 



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The third annual meeting of the Quebec 

 Vegetable Growers' Association was held at 

 Cartierville, Que., January 17th. The dele- 

 gates present were from some of th«. most 

 progressive sections of the province, and re- 

 presented some of the most successful mar- 

 ket growers from their various localities. 



The following officers were elected: Hon. 

 presidents: Hon. F. D. Monk, Hon. J. E. 

 Oaron, J. W. Leverque, M.P.P. Hon. vice- 

 presidents : G. A. Gigault, G. E. DuLord, 

 Paul Wattiez, President, Anatole Decarie. 

 First vice-president, Jack McEvoy. Second 

 vice-president, James Clark. Directors: 

 Prof. W. S. Blair. Camille Legare, Albert 

 Monethe, Paul Wattiez, Joseph Decarie. 

 Auditors: D. McMeckin, Father Athanase. 



Mr. William Dreber, sent by the Quebec 

 Association to visit the Ontario Vegetahle 

 Growers' Convention, read his report. This 

 report was instructive and thorough. It 

 brought home to the association the work 

 attempted and accomplished in their sister 

 province. It drew out a discussion con- 

 cerning the Skinner system of irrigation. 

 This system is new and fast coming to the 

 forefront as the most successful system of 

 artiiicial irrigation yet undertaken. The 

 pressure is maintained by gasoline engine. 

 From large pipes running across the head 

 of the £eld, other leads of pipe are carried. 

 At every four feet in the latter nozzles are 

 placed, through which the water is project- 

 ed. This water, falling back on the soil, 

 imitates very effectually a r-ain storm, and 

 thus robs the irrigation system of many 

 undesirable features. 



CELERY OULTtTRE 



Culture of celery was the subject of M. 

 D. McMeekin's paper. In this he outlined 

 his meth.od of caring for tho plant from 

 the time the seed is placed in the "flat" 



until ready for the field. Sturdy plants are 

 what is sought, and what must be obtained 

 if success with celery is reached. Succes- 

 sive transplanting develops the root system 

 and this always goes hand in hand with 

 stalwartness in the seedling. Tliis system 

 of transplanting is to be advised. 



Mr._ Thos. Delworth, representing the 

 Ontario Vegetable Growers' Association, 

 was in favor of the same method, repeated 

 transplanting, with tomatoes. For early 

 tomatoes three or four transplantings are 

 not too many. Before going into the field 

 he recommended that each plant should be 

 placed in a berry box, one plant to the box. 

 The rootlets are not disturbed when finally 

 placed in the field. They thus recover from 

 the shock of transplantin.a: much sooner. 

 Any fruit on the plant wheH "set" should 

 be removed. It exhausts the plant in ripen- 

 ing the seed and discourages the formation 

 of other fruit clusters. It is important to 

 get the plant first and fruit later. 



GOOD SEED NECESSARY 



Mr. T. G. Bunting, of the Central Ex- 

 perimental Farm, Ottawa, was convinced 

 that there were better methods which gar- 

 deners might follow if they would. Better 

 seeds were vory important. Seeds true to 

 name, free of fungi and of a high germinat- 

 ing power must be obtained. The gardener 

 may eoonomiae in fertilizers, in implements, 

 in nearly everything if he must, but in 

 seeds never. The best is the cheapest and 

 none too good. He instanced several cases 

 of seed obtained at a high price, which was 

 not true to type. It is difficult in such 

 cases to fix the responsibility. Whenever 

 the thing is possible the home selection of 

 seed is to be recommended. 



Mr. A. F. Charron, M.A., of the Central 

 Experimental Farm, Ottawa, both after- 



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