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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



April, 1912 



Florists and Gardeners 



Have you sent us your order for FLOWER POTS? We have a very 

 large stock of all sizes, and can give you Immediate Shipment. 



STANDARD POTS 



Number . , ^. Price 



In Crate Size uicludiiiff Crate 



4,000 1« *'2.40 _ 



^::::::::::::..2% 6.40 strong SSB^ ^^^^^^ 



1,070 3 5.75 WlU^^lijlli 



780 z% 5.08 DURABLE ^BSSSm AND 



500 4 (200,000 in stock) 4.15 ■iSjt|UUW 



360 i% 3.64 LIGHT IHSMf CHEAP 



330 5 4.53 ^M^^^ 



200 6 4.20 ^^^^^ 



HANGING BASKETS All our Pots are well burned. 



48 10 4.24 



48 12 5.20 MAKE up your Order and send it 



3 per cent, discount 30 days. to us NOW. 



Write for our Catalogue and Price List, which gives prices on all size Pots, 

 Fern and Bulb Pans, Hanging Baskets, Jardiniere Pots, Saucers, etc. 



The FOSTER POTTERY CO. 



Hatniltoti, Ontario 



CANADA'S LEADING POT MANUFACTURERS 



A— Uooking lank 

 B— Hot Water Tajik 

 O- -Fire Box 



D— Ash Pan 

 E-Smoke Pipe 



Make Your Own Spray 



Home Boiled Lime Sulphur is being used in inoreafiing 

 quantities by leading fruit growers and fruit growers' associa- 

 tions. They find that by making their own spray they can ef- 

 fect a considerable money saving, and at the same time produce 

 a preparation tha-t will do the work thoroughly. 



It is an easy matter to make home boiled Lime sulphur. 

 The chief essential is a proper spray oookei'. We manufac- 

 ture two kinds of cookers, one with a single "tank, and one 

 with a double tank. (See Illustration.) They are designed 

 especially for this purpose, and will give the greatest efS- 

 ciemcy with the greatest Baving of fuel. They can be used 

 tor either wood or soft coal. 

 The tanks are made of heavily galvanized steel, thoroughly rivettedand 

 soldered. Will not leak. They are built to give satisfaction, and are 

 guaranteed. 



Made in five sizes, capacity 30 to 76 gals. Prices and full i>articulars on 

 application. Get your outfit now. Write us to-day. 



STEEL THOUGH AND MACHINE CO., Ltd., TWEED, Ont. 



Imperial Bank 



EsuUi.hed OF CANADA I875 



HEAD OFFICE TORONTO 



Capital Paid-up. . 6.000,000.00 



Reserve Fund . 6,000,000.00 



Total Assets . 72,000.000.00 



D. R. WILKIE, President and General Manager 

 HON. R. JAFFRAY, Vice-President 



Branohea and AKenciea throughout 

 tho Dominion ot Canada 



Letters of Credit, Drafts and Money Orders 



Issued available in all parts 



of the world 



Special attention given to collections 



SaWncs Department at all Branches 



Interest .lUowed on deposits at best current rates 



Strawberry 

 Plants 



That are Great Yielders 



Buy your strawberry plants from 

 one that has made a snooees of 

 growing berries for the market for 

 many years. 



I grow the Williams Improved, 

 Parsons Beauty, Splendid and 

 Michel's Early. 



Last year the yield from 2 3-4 

 acres was 31,500 boxes, and in 1910 

 the yield from 1 1.5 acres of 

 Williams Improved was 16,770 

 boxes. 



I have for sale a fine lot of plants 

 of above varieties. Prices: 75 cts. 

 per 100; $.5.00 per 1,000. 



W. WALKER 



Port Burwell, Qnt, 



Elgin Co.; 





aloiif, but of twenty countries, and 1 hav< 

 to support this view, the testimony not m 

 one investicator alone, but of every in- 

 vestigator who has acquired any reputii- 

 tion. 



SIR }iO!l.\CE PLUNKBTT'S OPINION 



To quote but one — and I could quote no 

 better — .Sir Horace Plunkett, writing re- 

 cently in the New York "Outlook.'" said : 

 "The objict of rural associations is not to 

 "declare a dividend, but to improve th<- 

 "conditions of the industry for the mein 

 "bers. In the control of the managemem 

 "the principle, 'One Man, One Vot^', 

 "should be strictly observed, an essential 

 "condition of co-operative as distingui&he^l 

 "from joint stock organization. The cliief 

 "advantage of co-operative legislation T • 

 "the farmer is that it enables him to do h: 

 "business in a way that suit*, him instead 

 "of adopting a town-made system unsuited 

 "to his needs." 



In Canada the farmer is not permitted to 

 do business in his own way and uj)on a 

 plan that would work no hardship to him 

 nor to anjoue else ; but is obliged to aoopi 

 the methods of cai>italism that enable those 

 whose interests are not necessarily in the 

 land or in the industry, to control the or- 

 ganization and take what toll they please. 



Maritime Possibilities* 



W. H. Bunting, St. CathariuM, Ont. 



An important feature, peculiar to the 

 Nova Scotia fruit belt, is the large number 

 of apple storage warehouses situated at 

 every shipping station throughout tin- 

 Annapolis Valley. Over eighty of these 

 have been erected with a capacity of from 

 two thousand to ten thousand barrels each. 

 The fruit is usually handled direct into bar- 

 rels in the orchard and rushed to tnese 

 warehouses, where it is rei)acked during the 

 fall and winter seasons and shipped ont 

 whenever a favorable opportunity otters. 



Orting to comparative nearness to the 

 British markets, the great bulk of the sur- 

 plus fruit is exjjortied. The past season, 

 however, has been a record one, both toi 

 volume of the crop and quality of the fruit, 

 and has seen the western markets invaded 

 for the first time. Nova .Scotia Graven- 

 steins and other varieties found their way 

 not only to Winnii)eg and the large prairie 

 towns and cities, but even as far west as 

 Hevelstoke and Kamloops in British Colum- 

 bia. 



BETTER TRAN8PORT.\TION NEEDED 



On account of the lack of regular ana tre- 

 quent sailings of ocean steamships from 

 Halifax, the transi>ortation question during 

 the early fall months is a serious one, and 

 if possible some remedy shoidd Le found. 

 This condition does not apply to the ship- 

 ping facilities during the winter, when the 

 sailings are regular and frequent. It is 

 during this period that the great hulk of 

 the crop is marketed, and it is therefore 

 desirable that the planting of only the best 

 varieties of winter fruit be encouraged. 



While many Nova Scotia growers are 

 specialists and are handling their orchards 

 in a careful, systematic manner, a more 

 widespread campaign for the adoption of 

 the best methods of orchard practice would 

 greatly enhance the quality of the product 

 and the profit to be derived therefrom. 



PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 



Prince Edward Island comprises district 

 number eight. On this beautiful island 



there are a few wide-awake fruit-growers, of 



This is the balance of Mr. Bunting's report 

 on the fruit poaxibilities of the Maritime Prn 

 vlnoes as continued from the March issue. 



