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April, igi2 



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FLOWER SEED SPECIALTIES, 50c 



1 packet Aster, Graham's Royal Exhibition. 

 1 packet Dianthus, choice double mixed. 

 1 ounce Dwarf Nasturtium, Graham's Koyal 



Exhibition Mixture. 

 1 packet Tall Nasturtium, Graham's Royal 



Exhibition Mixture. 

 1 packet Graham's Royal Exhibi'ion Pansy 

 1 ounce Graham's Exhibition Sweet Peas. 

 1 packet Phlox Drummondii Gran- 

 diflora, choice mixed. 



VEGETABLE SEED SPECIALTIES, 50c 



1 pkt. Hodson Wax Bean. 



1 " Lucelles Chard. 



1 " Golden Bantam Corn. 



1 " Witham Fireball Beet. 



1 " High Grade Erfurt Cauli- 

 flower. 



1 " Copenhagen Market Cabbage 



1 " Improved Hanson Lettuce. 



1 " New Century White Spine 

 Cucumber. 



1 " Fordhook Early Water Melon 



1 " Dwarf Perfection Parsley. 



1 " Delicious Squash. 



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can get for it, theroby spoiling the market 

 for all and lowering the high standard of 

 fruit, which it should be the object of each 

 district to maintain. 



By all means enforce sanitation in your 

 orchards as you do in your towns, or you 

 will be heavily handicapped by those who 

 do. 



Speaking of sprays, with m© Bordeaux 

 mixture is a thing of the past, not only be- 

 ing troublesome and costly to make, but 

 russetting the apples, especially if rain fol- 

 lows the spraying. Commercial lime-sul- 

 phur, one part to forty of water, is as good 

 a fungicide, and does no injury to the fruit, 

 whilst the addition of two pounds lead ar- 

 senate to every forty gallons doubles its 

 power as a fungicide besides forming a 

 powerful insecticide. Applied hot, with 

 ten pounds of quicklime to the barrel, it is 

 still further improved. 



British Apple Market 



The Canadian High Commissioner in 

 Great Britain, discussing British apple 

 markets in the weekly report of the Depart- 

 ment of Trade and Commerce, has the fol- 

 lowing to say : 



The reports recently appearing in the 

 newspapers that a million barrels of apples 

 have been received in the United Kingdom 

 this season from Nova Scotia, appear to be 

 substantially correct, and it is estimated 

 that another 300,000 or 400,000 barrels re- 

 main to be shipped. The condition of those 

 already received has not been uniformly 

 good, the keeping qualities having been be- 

 low the average, owing, it is thought, to the 

 fruit having ripened too quickly. The huge 

 quantity, combined with the disappointing 

 quality, has had an adverse effect on prices. 



A member of a well-known firm in the 

 trade states that, although the number of 

 barrels received was so great, he had not 

 heard of one which had been branded 

 "falsely marked," but he had had one very 

 bad instance of fraudulent packing and had 

 heard of several others. A new feature will 

 be introduced into the trade very shortly by 

 the arrival of six thousand cases of apples 

 from Cape Colony, but these will not com- 

 pete with Canadian, but with Australian 

 fruit. 



8CIENTIPIC LINES 



It is become more evident each year that 

 apple growing on scientific lines is making 

 progress in this country, and that the efforts 

 which have been mad© for a number of years 

 to bring about an improvement in the apple 

 orchards here are meeting with success. The 

 better kinds of apples are being planted, 

 the varieties are being limited, and the 

 numbers are such that the produce can be 

 marketed in commercial quantities; the 

 trees are being sprayed and the orchards 

 cultivated, and the practice of grading and 

 careful packing in boxes is being greatly ex- 

 tended. 



The development has been such and pro- 

 mises so well, that a leading firm with 

 branches at all the principal ports, and 

 hitherto engaged in the import trade only, 

 has been compelled to start a department to 

 deal with English fruit. They express the 

 opinion that it will not compete with the 

 Canadian product, but if the movement 

 grows, as it has every appearance of doing, 

 it is difficult to see why the late native 

 apples will not influence the market for the 

 earlier Canadian importations, especially if 

 the latter are not of very good quality. As 

 the improvement in the English apple is 

 likely to raise the quality standard of the 

 demand generally, the necessity will be per- 



