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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



February, 1912 





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Illustrated 

 Catalogue 



of 



EWING'S 

 Reliable 

 Seeds — 



vegetable— flower— field 

 root — field grain — grass 



— clover and ensilage 

 corn. — Also fruit trees 



— small fruits — roses 

 and other shrubs — bed- 

 ding plants — fertilizers 



— insectides — garden 

 tools ■ — sp rayin g 

 appliances and poultry 

 supplies. Mailed free 

 for the asking. Address 



WM. EWING & CO., 

 Seedsmen, 20 

 VXo:^l\W>//^}^V^:V::■:^;^V^^:■^^ H McGILL ST., - M«„te.L 



Some History 



about Typewriters 



Modem and Ancient 



CHAPTER 7 



IN buying a Typewriter the price should be 

 the last consideration. 



\/OU can buy cheaper typewriters than the Under- 

 wood, but if you pay less, you get less — a great 

 deal less. 



AN Underwood is worth what you pay for it — 

 generally more. Its value depends not merely 

 upon what it is, but what it does. 



Vf7HEN you buy an Underwood, you get more than 

 the machine. 



TTHERE is something which goes with the Underwood— included 

 in every sale but not figured in the price--it is service. 



IN a great many cases the time and labor saved by a specially de- 

 * vised Underwood system pays for the machine in a few months. 



United Typewriter Co. 



Limited 



TORONTO 



that fruit-growers had not secured the ad- 

 vantages from the decisions of the Railway 

 Oommifision that were coming to thoni, and 

 many thought this was duo to the transport- 

 ation committ<H> not following up the de- 

 cisions of the commission closely enough. 

 The other ooniinittees were re-electe<l, with 

 practically no change. 



WESTERN REPRESENTATIVE 



Hon. J. S. Duff. Minister of Agriculture, 

 was present and was a.sked to give his at- 

 tention to apx)oint a travelling ropre.senta- 

 tive for Ontario fruit-growers in the west- 

 ern market. British Columbia has such a 

 representative and thus has an advantage 

 over the eastern provinces. The Minister 

 promised to give the matter consideration. 



ORCHARD COMPETITION 



It was decidtyl to conduct an orchartl 

 comx>etition for the coming s<,'ason, the pro- 

 vince to he divided into districts, and suit- 

 able awards to be given for the best or- 

 chards in each di.strict. This competition 

 will be carried out for four years, awards, 

 however, to be made yearly, with final 

 awards for the orchard mnking the best 

 showing for the full perio<l. at the end of 

 the fourth year. 



Many changes were made in the prize list 

 for the apjile show to be held next Novem- 

 ber. Prizes will be offered for half car- 

 loads and .50-box lots of Spy. Baldwin and 

 McInto.sh. Some of the varieties now on 



Numerous Inquries 



"A.S it must be gratifying to you as 

 well as to us, we wish to mention that 

 we are receiving numerous inquiries 

 from our advertisements in The 

 Canadian Horticttlturist." — Ger- 

 man Potash Syndicate. Toronto. 



The above firm has u.sed large space 

 regularly in The Canadian Horticul- 

 turist for several years to .ndverti.se 

 their fertilizers to fruit growers. 

 They find it pays. Perhaps you have 

 something that fruit growers want. 



the list will be eliminated, so as to still 

 further reduce the lisrt of kinds that are re- 

 commended for Ontario planting. This is 

 in accordance with modern orchard practice. 



.At the close of the directors' meeting, the 

 representatives of the Dominion Confer- 

 ence, who were appointed last November, 

 met and decided on the action to be taken 

 in connection with the various resolutions 

 which were forwarded to Ottawa. Certain 

 of the committee were allotted to bring 

 forward each resolution; and will secure 

 the necessary data. 



About fifteen years ago the fruit men of 

 the Annapolis Valley commenced to build 

 apple \varehou.ses on the railway line. There 

 are now over ninety of these in the Valley 

 with a total capacity of perhaps eight hun- 

 dred thousand barrels. Counting a couple 

 of large additions, equivalent to new ones, 

 twelve of these were erected during the past 

 year. 



The Kootenay Fruit Growers' Union has 

 been shipping single boxes of apples to 

 points in various parts of the world. One 

 box was shipped to Switzerland, two to New 

 York, one to Paris containing four different 

 varieties of apples. Cox Or.inge Pippin. Yel- 

 low Newton, Spitzenberg and Northern 

 Spy. This is being sent as a result of a 

 visit paid to the warehouse of the union 

 recently by a Parisian banker who was as- 

 tonished at the perfect color and quality of 

 the Kootenay apples. 



