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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



July, 1912 



EVEN WITH THIS BIG 6 GALLON VS/ATERPAN WE DO 



NOT PROMISE HIGHER THAN 55%) HUMIDITY 



THE ORDINARY WATER PAN AFFORDS FROM18T025% 



NORMAL HUMIDITY OUT DOORS IS ABOUT 70% 



I See The Point? \ 



lOuR Furnace Literature is both Interesting 

 AND Instructive — Ma/led on Request 



No 3 



Adama & Tanton. 115 King St., London, Ont. 



Kenneth McDonald, Ottawa, Ont. 



A. E. Cameron, Brockvllle, Ont. 



J. A. Slmmera, Seedsman, 143-145 King St. 

 East, Toronto, Ont. 



Wm. Smith, 10th Line East, Petrolea, Ont. 



Darch & Hunter Seed Co., 119 Dundas St., 

 London, Ont . 



Wm. Ewlng & Co., 142-I44 McGill St., Mon, 

 treal, Que. 



Robt. Kerr, It AInslee St., flalt, Ont. 



SLUG-SHOT 



USED FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN for 30 rem 



SOME SEEDSMEN WHO FOR UPWARDS OF 20 YEARS 



HAVE SOLD SLUG-SHOT IN CANADA : 



Chas. E. Bishop, 31 Bridge St., Belleville, Ont. 

 Steele Briggs Seed Co., 130 King St. East, 

 Toronto, Ont. 



Jas. B. Hay, Brantford, Ont. 



Patrick Ross, Market Square, Woodstock, Ont. 

 George Keith, 124 King St. East, Toronto, Ont. 

 Graham Bros., 53-55 Sparks St., Ottawa, Ont. 

 Wm. Rennie & Co., Winnipeg, Man. 

 J. A. Bruce & Co., 47-49 King St., Hamilton, 



Ont. 

 Dupuy i Ferguson, 38 Jacques Cartier Sq., 



Montreal. 

 Wm. Rennie S Co., Adelaide and Jarvis Sts., 



Toronto, Ont. 

 Wm. Rennie & Co., 190 McGill St., Montreal, 



Que. 



SAVES CURRANTS, POTATOES, CABBAGE, MELONS, FLOWERS, TREES AND SHRUBS FROM INSECTS 



Put up in popular packages at popular prices. Write tor free pamphlet on Bugs and Blight, etc., to 

 B. HAMMOND, FISHKILL-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK 



has been obtained, bnt mucli remains to 

 be done before this feature of the Canadian 

 fruit industry is put on a 8ati.sfactory basis 

 The great north-west country will be able to 

 consume, at a profit to the producer, all 

 the fruit that can be groTm for many years 

 to come, provided it can be landed from 

 the east and from the west in good condi- 

 tion and at reasonable cost. 



This conference will render the very best 

 service to the fruit industry at large, if 

 ways and means can be devised to secure 

 improvement of these conditions, both with 

 regard to the freight and express service. 

 I take the liberty of suggesting to this con- 

 ference the advisability of selecting a joint 

 committee of say three men, one from 

 British Columbia, one from Ontario, and 

 one representing the Maritime Provinces, 

 whose duty would be to secure facts and in- 

 formation relative to market conditions, 

 both as to supply and demand throughout 

 the Dominion, and give publicity to such 

 information. This committee would also be 

 able to treat with railway companies and 

 other organizations, having regard to the 

 welfare, not only of any particular section 

 or province, but of the fruit industry of 

 Canada as a whole. 



Ontario Apples in the West 



Byroo W. Webster, Winniper, Men. 



There is land in British Columbia that is 

 selling on the Winnipeg market very read- 

 ily at_ one hundred dollars an acre. This 

 land in most cases is just plain farming 

 land. It includes some timbered land, but 

 none that is any better than land in On- 

 tario. The fruit grown is no better than 

 Ontario fruit, and the railroad facilities no 

 better if as good. Why is it that they can 

 get tip-top prices for their land, while in 

 Ontario land is. almost given away in com- 

 parison. 



Perhaps this will throw a little light on 

 the subject. I went into a fruit store the 

 other day on Main street, which cal's itself 

 the city apple market. Barrels of rotten 

 apples were lying around the shop, and on 

 stands were apples that in Ontario we would 

 throw out to the pigs. At their best they 

 were number three, but through time and 

 exposure they were all partiaUy rotted. 

 And horrors of horrors, at the back of the 

 shop, in big red letters covering the entire 

 b.ock, was printed " High-class Ontario 

 Apples." Beneath that was a sorting table 

 piled up with apples, mostly rotten, with a 

 half bushel measure on one side and a barrel 

 for the rotten ones at the bottom. 



And that is the way Ontario apples are 

 advertised. Contrasted with that the Bri- 

 tish Columbia and Washington fruits are 

 packed in clean boxes, are sold in the best' 

 stores and placed in every way to show 

 the public what fine fruit is grown out west. 

 Their enterprise results in large profits for 

 western fruit - growers and landholders. 

 When one examines the fruit, it is no bet- 

 ter than that grown in Ontario. I have 

 never seen western apples shown in such a 

 rotten way as I see the eastern apples. 



It is just that which makee the western 

 fruit sell at two dollars fifty cents a box, 

 while that grown east sells at one doUar 

 fifty cents, and makes British Columbia 

 orchards sell at five hundred dollars and one 

 thousand dollars an acre, while eastern 

 orchards sell at from one hundred to three 

 hundred dollars an acre. No wonder the 

 people are going west, where up-to-date 

 business methods are employed. Although 

 Ontario fruit-growers are waldng up, the 

 progress is altogether too slow. There may 

 be boxed Ontario apples on the Winnipeg 



