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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



to form a sufficient protection to take the 

 place of the snow. 



" In the winter of 1903-1904 many of the 

 orchards that had been replanted were again 

 frozen. In sections of the United States 

 where they have had the same difficulty to 

 contend with, they are using a coarse mulch 

 applied directly to each tree. We are now 

 planting our new orchards 16 by 24 feet 

 apart, and with this plan hope to work a 

 strip in the centre of 10 or 12 feet in width, 

 keeping a sufficiently heavy mulch on the 

 balance to hold the moisture. This, in 

 connection with the heavy cover crop on 

 the cultivated strip, that nearly always 

 grows rankly at a distance from the trees, 

 ought to afford ample protection. I hope 

 in the future to work vegetables in with my 

 fruit growing rather more than I have 

 hitherto done, and vuider the foregoing con- 

 ditions expect to make fruit as profitable as 

 vegetables. 



" We grow tomatoes chiefly, also cucum- 

 bers and musk melons. This year, aside 

 from growing the supply for our own 



needs, our growers had over 250.000 tomato 

 I^lants under contract for canning factory 

 purposes. These were transplanted but 

 once. My own planting included 3,000 

 cucumber plants, 14,000 Earliana and 20,000 

 Stone and B. B. tomato plants, and 10,000 

 mellon plants. We ship to commission 

 men in the cities, many of whom we find 

 reliable, although on the start I had deal- 

 ings with some who were quite the reverse. 

 We also ship more or less to about 80 towns 

 in Ontario, including a few in Quebec, 

 Manitoba and Nova Scotia, where we deal 

 direct with the retailers at a quoted price. 

 The cities we ship to include Winnipeg and 

 the cities of Ontario and Quebec. 



" The greatest competition from south- 

 ern growers is at the winding up of their 

 season, when they send their fruit into the 

 Dominion, under, as I am given to under- 

 stand, some arrangement with the railway 

 companies whereby no charge for freight 

 is made if the price realized does not make 

 it up. We fruit and vegetable growers of 

 Canada should follow the example of the 



An Interior View in One of Mr. J. D. Fraser's Greenhouses, at Leamington, Ont. 



This greenhouse is i6S feet long by 31 feet wide. In it a large number of tomato plants and other vegetables were started this 

 spring for the early markets. 



