SMALL FRUIT AND FLOWERS. 



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" In my young- orchard I always plant 

 small fruit if the soil is suitable. This 

 practice can be carried on until the fruit 

 trees come into bearing. In raspberries I 

 find the Marlboro and the Cuthbert give ex- 

 cellent satisfaction. The former comes in 

 slightly eariier. They are both large ber- 

 ries of good quality suitable for shipping. 

 The bushes, too. have sufficient wood to 

 bear large cjuantities of fruit." 



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Methods With Raspberries 



^HERE are two radically different 

 methods of growing raspberries," 

 said Air. R. B. \\'hyte. of Ottawa, to The 

 Horticulturist. " The one commonly used 

 in western Ontario is to ' pinch in ' the plant 

 when it is about two feet high and make a 

 bushy plant of it. In this way staking is 

 not necessary. In the colder parts, like Ot- 

 tawa and vicinity, where the plants have to 

 be laid down during the winter for protec- 

 tion. I find it much better to allow them to 

 grow without pinching them until they are 

 about five feet high. 



" Lateral branches should be cut oft' to 

 within aboiit six inches of the main cane so 

 as to throw additional strength into the main 

 cane and to prevent the lateral branches 

 breaking oft' with the weight of the fruit. 

 The bushes can be staked off. For a tall 

 open bush like this it is possible to obtain 

 larger and finer fruit, which possesses much 

 finer flavor. I used to lose my crops when 

 I tried the other method, but have never lost 

 a crop since I have adopted this system." 



It pays to correctly fertilize strawberries 

 for the following reasons : It vastly in- 

 creases the yield, it gives larger berries of 

 better color and flavor and a firmer fruit. 

 Firmness in the fruit enables it to be ship- 

 ped long distances and arrive fresh. 



A Fine Fruit Exhibit 



LIXUS WOOLVERTON, GRIMSBY, ONT., SUPT. 

 FRUIT EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



OUR Ontario fruit experiment stations 

 will put up an exhibit at the Ontario 

 Horticultural Exhibition in Toronto next 

 November which will be of the greatest in- 

 terest to fruit growers because of its edu- 

 cational character. For nine years these 

 stations have been testing all known varie- 

 ties of fruits. We have found many much 

 lauded varieties to be worthless. These 

 will be showai in a class by themselves, wdiile 

 the varieties which have proved profitable 

 or otherwise worthy of cultivation will be 

 shown and duly placarded. Work is al- 

 ready- beginning in preparation by the put- 

 ting up of tender fruits in glass bottles, of 

 which several hundred have been distributed 

 anicng the experimenters for the purpose. 



The Effect of Example 



GEO. V'AIR, TORONTO. 



DO not be discouraged by one failure to 

 grow flowers, but try, try again. 

 Your neighbor will seek to emulate you and 

 thus spread this pleasing and refining influ- 

 ence. 



On the street on which I live I did not 

 have much opportunity to grow flowers, but 

 I began to plant some creepers and added a 

 few geraniums and other things in the small 

 space at my disposal. The result was that 

 my neighbors began to do likewise and have 

 put me in the shade. 



These neighbors began to take pleasure 

 in gardening, and a more delightful scene 

 could hardly be witnessed than that of a 

 whole family, young and old, sitting outside 

 in the summer evenings, often bragging 

 about their different displays. 



Take pains. If you do that you will 

 make a success of strawberrv culture. 



A perfect all round strawberry is about 

 as hard to find as a perfect all round milk 

 cow. 



