



CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY 



Fruit Growers' Association of P. E. Island [illustration) . . .Frontispiece 



Wood A^hes Are a Valuable Fertilizer 53 



Black Knot on Plums 54 



The Ontario Fruit Fxperiment Stations 55 



Will Fncourag-e Cooperaiive Associations 5S 



A Canadian Institution To Be Proud Of {illustrated) 59 



Fruit Growing in Hriiish Columbia 62 



The Manuring- ot Fruit Trees 63 



The Time to Apply the V\'ash 64 



Pedigreed Strawberry Plants . 65 



Black Rot of Grapes 66 



Grape Fertilizers 67 



Pruning Currant Bushes (illustrated ) 68 



Varieties of Strawberries 6g 



Disease Among Lilies 70 



Fertilizers in the Greenhouse 71 



The Red Oak as a Shade Tree ( illustrated) • 72 



House Plants in the Winter 73 



Flower and Plant Lore ( I'lustrated) 74 



Chrysanthemums in the Garden 75 



Mild, w on Lettuce 76 



The Manuring of Market Garden Crops 78 



Forcing Lettuce 7c) 



Forcing Tomatoes 80 



Fertilizers Benefit the Crops 81 



Growing Earls Cauliflowers 81 



EditO' ials 82 



Selling- Fruit in (ireat Britain on Commission 84 



Packing Apples in Boxes For Export 84 



The .Annual Meetings of Horticultural Societies 86 



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