A GROWING INDUSTRY. 



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Greenhouse in Which Mr. Frost Grows Some of His Roses 



grown in the greenhouse should do well ed in caring 

 when treated in the same way. I have 

 tested this method for 13 years and shall 

 not go back to the old way." 



" What do you do with the old wood ?" 

 was asked. " Every third year," replied 



Mr. Frost, " I go through 

 and cut out all but the strong 

 young shoots. This leaves 

 a healthy bed of young 

 plants which keep on bloom- 

 ing. I usually do the prun- 

 ing in July, but last year I 

 pruned one bench in Janu- 

 ary when the crop was off, 

 and it did as well as others 

 pruned in the summer. 



" The work connected 

 with rose growing in this 

 ivay is very light. Each 

 year in July I add about one 

 inch of cow manure and a 

 moderate dressing of bone 

 meal. Then there is the 

 usual work which is need- 

 for benches. My experi- 

 ence," concluded Mr. Frost, " has taught 

 me that it is wise to leave a crop as long as 

 it is paying well. These roses will stay as 

 they are until I see they have ceased to 

 bring handsome returns." 



CANNING SITUATION IN PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY 



IN Prince Edward County, Ontario, a 

 great number of the tillers of the soil 

 depend on truck farming for a livelihood. 

 Perhaps more canned goods are put up in 

 this county than in any other county in the 

 province. Prince Edward growers supply 

 the raw material for nine factories, all lo- 

 cated within the borders of that county. 

 They also furnish the greater portion of 

 what is canned in two factories just outside 

 the limits of the county. The fact that 

 four new factories have been built within 

 the last two years gives some idea of the 

 increasing importance of the canning in- 

 dustry to the growers. 



" In Prince Edward county," said Mr. 

 Wellington Boulter, of Boulter & Sons, Pic- 

 ton, to The Horticulturist, "the total value 



of goods canned each year amounts to 

 somewhere in the neighborhood of $1,000,- 

 000, Of course it depends on what Nature 

 gives the grower." 



" There has been a marked increase in 

 the number of acres devoted to truck gar- 

 dening this season," said Mr. Earl Spencer, 

 of Picton. " This increase is to supply the 

 new factories which are going up. The 

 acreage of canned stuff has doubled in the 

 last few years." 



" The old factories are holding their own 

 growers," said Mr. J. E. Terrill, of Picton, 

 " and the four new factories which have 

 started within two years back are being 

 supplied by new growers." 



" It is hard to estimate the total number 

 of farmers who supply the raw material for 



