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Heater for Greenhouse. 



1020. — Can you give me tlio address of 

 the llitchiiigs & Co., who nianufiicture the 

 Donustic Water Heater, reci iiiir.ended by 

 the man who wrote the description of the 

 amateur's greenhouse on p. 20 No. ]., Vol. 

 xix. of the Canadian Horticultuiist ? If you 

 cannot, can you tell me where to get a heater 

 that would heat a thousund (1,000) feet air 

 space — the temperature falling sometimes a.s 

 low as 40*^. If you will answer this through 

 your valuable Journal, I shall bo very much 

 obliged. 



Yours sincerely, 



Pekcy p. Fakmkk. 

 A rnprior, 



Hitching's Domestic Water Heater is 

 made by Hitching's & Co., 233 Mercer 

 St., New York. It will probably an- 

 swer as well as any for the purpose 

 named. 



There is also, Ibelicve, a small sized 

 Daisy heater, made at Toronto, but 

 without more data I cannot tell the size 

 that will be required as it depends upon 

 the area of exposed glass rather than the 

 cubic air space. The radiation required 

 will be about the one half the glass area. 



L. R. Taft, 

 AgricuUural College, Michigan. 



Small Fruits at Gravenhurst. 



1021. Sir, — Strawberries have borne a 

 splendid crop, one-third of an acre yielding 

 930 quarts, averaging 6^ cents each, with a 

 very rapid sale. Indeed, I was not able to 

 supply the demand. Currants are good ; red 

 and white ones bring ~t\ cents, and black 12^. 

 The only trouble is that there are not enough 

 home-grown fruits, for these are so much 

 fresher than those brought from a distance. 



Could you recommend a good late variety 

 of strawberry, and also a good early kind. 

 We have Jessie, Crescent, Logan and Wilson, 

 and would like new kinds bearing large ber- 

 ries. 



Jessie Parker, Grave7ihursl. 



Reply by Prof. H. L. Hutt, Agricultural 

 College, Guelph, Ont. 

 Such reports are encouraging, and 

 quite different from those received from 

 many of the older fruit sections, where the 

 .supply is far in excess of the demand, 

 and the cost of transportation eats up 



all the profits when it is sent to a distant 

 market. Where it can be obtained there 

 is no market like the home market for 

 the small and soft fruits. At anything 

 like the prices mentioned there is money 

 in growing small fruits, and the northern 

 growers who first go into it in a business- 

 like way to supply this home demand, 

 will have a little Klondike of their own. 

 The varieties of strawberries you men- 

 tion have never made any great records 

 for themselves here, or at least we have 

 had many other varieties which have far 

 excelled them. As one of our leading 

 early varieties 1 would mention Van 

 Deman. Sadie, a new variety, beat it 

 this year, but for an average of three 

 years Van Deman heads the list for ear- 

 liness. Warfield comes in a few days 

 later, and usually holds out much longer. 

 It ranks eighth for total yield among 220 

 varieties fruited this year, and averages 

 second among 85 varieties grown for 

 three years. Saunder.s, Tennessee, Pro- 

 lific, Haverland and Clyde, are all heavy- 

 yielding, excellent, midseason varieties. 

 The latter stands second on the list this 

 year for total yield, and has certainly 

 proved itself worthy of all the high com- 

 pliments paid to it. Stone's Early heads 

 the list this year, and also for an average 

 of three years as the most productive 

 berry, but as it so seriously lacks size 

 and firmness we cannot recommend it. 

 Edgar Queen has also made a great 

 record for itself. For total yield it ranks 

 third among the 220 varieties grown this 

 year, and averages third among the 85 

 varieties grown for three years, and it 

 heads the list this year and for an aver- 

 age of three years for the largest late 

 yield. Its worst fault is a lack of firm- 

 ness, which might also be said of Do- 

 minion, another heavy-yielding, late va- 

 riety, which in most respects is superior 

 to Edgar Queen. 



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