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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



August, 191 2 



A Cherry Orchard Pays 



Plant in Fall and Avoid Failures 



CHERRY ORCHARDS PAY BIG DIVIDENDS 



Toronto Wholesale Fruit Market Quotations, present season, quote — 



Early Richmond and Montmorency, $1.25 to $1.50 per basket 



We offer Choice Trees for Fall Delivery at 

 Special Prices for Orctiard Lots 



Sead for Prices and our Cherry Circular 



THE FONTHILL NURSERIES 



Established 1837 



STONE & WELLINGTON - TORONTO 



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TORONTO 



Aug. 24th-1912-Sept. 9th 



$55, 000.00 IN PR IZES 



For Products of the Farm, the Garden 



and the Home. 

 Liberal Premiums for all classes of 



Horticulture. 

 ALL ENTniES CLOSE AUGUST 15th 



Daisy Apple 

 Press 



Used by all leading 

 apple packers in Can- 

 ada, United States and 

 England. 



Write for prices and 

 complete information 

 to- 



J.J.ROBUN&SON 



M anuf actu re ri 



BRIGHTON, ONT. 



Canada 



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the purpcwe of purchasing, or leasing for a 

 niimher of years, orchards in various parts 

 of the country, it being the intention to 

 care for the.«e orchards in accordance with 

 the most approved methods. Should these 

 companies prove succeeeful, the several 

 orcihards so handled should prove splendid 

 object-lessons to the surrounding country. 



The Provincial Government has taken an 

 active interest in horticulture in Ontario. A 

 fruit branch has been formed, with Mr. P. 

 W. Hodgetts as director; an Experimental 

 Farm has been established in the tender 

 fruit area, the gift to the province of Mr. 

 M. F. Rittenhouse, of Chicago, who, an old 

 Niagara district boy, has not forgotten the 

 place of his birth. Some good results arc 

 expected in the course of time from the 

 work conducted on this farm. The Ontario 

 Horticultural Exhibition has grown from 

 very small dimensions a few years ago to 

 one of the largest annual displays of 

 apples on the continent, second only to 

 the National Apple Show. 



If those of us who are engaged in the fruit 

 industry in Ontario will rise to the dignity 

 of the situation, and by every means in our 

 power .seek to put our product on the public 

 market in such a manner as will remore 

 every cause for complaint due to careless 

 and indifferent packing and grading of 

 what might otherwi.se be a high-class pro- 

 duct, there is a bright future in store for 

 the fruit-growers of the premier province 

 in the Dominion. 



Orchard Heating 



Late spring and early fall frosts not in- 

 frequently prove disastrou.s to fruit and 

 vegetable grnwers. It is encouraging, there- 

 fore, to note that orchard heating is con- 

 sidered to be a demonstrated success com- 

 mercinlly in leading fruit sections of the 

 United States. 



Bulletins issued recently by the Nevada 

 and Iowa Experiment Stations show that 

 experiments conducted not only by the 

 stations, hut by private growers as well, 

 prove that orchard heating is practical and 

 within the reach of the average grower who 

 has any considerable quantity of fruit that 

 he desires to save. Where winds are high 

 windbreaks are necessary. In Nevada it 

 has been shown that even when the tem- 

 perature falls as low at twenty-two degree.s 

 Fahrenheit and fro.sts occur persistently, 

 the orchards can be protected during the 

 season at an expense varying* from seventy- 

 three to ninety-five cents a tree. The maxi- 

 mum cost for each heating should not ex- 

 ceed ten to twelve and a half cents a tree. 

 In an orchard of two hundred and fifty 

 trees the average expense for each of thir- 

 teen heatings was a little over five cents a 

 tree. 



There are numerous styles of orchard 

 heaters on the market in the United States. 

 Their use is almost unknown in Canada. 

 The cost of conducting experiments is not 

 great. Profiting from the experience gain- 

 ed in the United States, some of our Cana- 

 dian Experiment Stations might conduct 

 similar experiments on a somewhat exten- 

 sive scale in Canada to the advantage of 

 the fruit industry. 



Mention The Canadian Horticulturiet whan writing 



I am glad to see the very great improve- 

 ment made in The C.anadi.vn HoRTicfLTUR- 

 isT during the past year. The improve- 

 ment in the quality and general tone of 

 the articles has been most marked. The 

 illustrations used in recent numbers are 

 also very much better. — J. H. Bowman, 

 Elmira, Ont. 



