THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



FAVORABLE REPORTS. 



Some reports just received on Arnotts Con- 

 centrated Horticultural Manure : 



From Messrs. Geo. Dobbs & Son, Auburn. N. 

 Y., U. S. A. : " The 25 pounds we ordered last 

 fall have given us excellent results. Please 

 send us 100 pounds more." 



From the Fenwick Nursery, Halifax, N. S. : 

 "Everything in which the "food" was applied 

 is doing well. The Calla and Easter lilies were 

 beautiful. Chrysanthemums are looking well, 

 also hydrangeas, fuchsias, geraniums and bench 

 roses." 



From the general superintendent department 

 of parks and boulevards, Detroit, Mich., U. S. A.: 

 " The sample of Arnott's Concentrated Horticul- 

 tural Manure gave satisfaction." 



down to him or to knock it down with sticks and 

 stones as we did when we were iboys. 



For all these purposes he must have a ladder, 

 and a ladder which is light, handy and strong 

 and which can be put up in the middle of the 

 tree as well as against the outside. The old- 

 fashioned single ladders have served their day, 

 but with the spraying machines, binders and the 

 cream separators have come in the extension 

 ladder. The fruit grower who has only one 

 tree should have an extension ladder. It will 

 pay him handsomely, and proportionately it will 

 pay the man who has many trees. 



A LADDER IN THE ORCHARD. 



So long as fruit trees grow taller than unas- 

 sisted man can reach so long will it be neces- 

 sary for him to have at hand some assistance in 

 reaching the higher parts of the tree. Before 

 the leaves are put forth in the spring the care- 

 ful orchardist prunes his trees and examines 

 every part carefully for signs of disease and for 

 the rings of eggs of the tent caterpillar. Later 

 he may require to get to the high branches to 

 relieve them of an overload of fruit which 

 threatens to break the tree or to leave the 

 quality of fruit inferior. And later still he must 

 climb to where the ripe fruit is and bring it 

 down for use. It will not do to wait till it falls 



Favorable Season for Packing.— We have had 

 a splendid season for packing, writes Mr. E. D. 

 Smith, of the Helderleigh Nurseries, at Winona, 

 and have got out our stock in excellent time and 

 in splendid shape. We had 150,000 trees dug 

 in the fall and heeled in my above ground cel- 

 lars. This enabled me to get the goods out to 

 the planters over the country earlier than could 

 possibly be done if everything had to be done in 

 the spring, and the stock was in better shape 

 as it was not damaged by the winter, as it some- 

 times is, although there was very little damage 

 last winter. 



I take a number of the (best fruit journals pub- 

 lished in the United States, but I consider The 

 Canadian Horticulturist the most complete and 

 valuable of any. — (J. L. Hilborn. Leamington, 



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