Marcli, iai6. 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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Some excellent newspaper advertlsdng has 

 already been carried on wiUi much benefit. 

 We hope to see this advertisinig continued. 



There is another method of educating the 

 public, and that is througu the legitimate 

 fruit trade. There has been too much an- 

 tagonism in the past, between the fruit 

 itrade and the fruit growers. Such a state of 

 affairs is not in the best interests of either 

 party and a better understanding all around 

 would help the industry. We need the fruit 

 jobber and the retailer and they need us; 

 they can boost our wares to their own ad- 

 Tant&ge, as well as ours, but everybody con- 

 cerned must have confidence in "the other 

 fellow." Every retailer has his clientele of 

 customers, who look to him for advice la 

 such matters; these men can do much to- 

 ward stimulating the demand for apples by 

 recommending the proper variety for certain 

 purposes, varieties in season, etc. Let us 

 bury the hatchet and get closer together. 



Many of our associations have another 

 pernicious habit which reduces our net re- 

 turns. That is forcing on the market un- 

 seasonable varieties. Lack of storage facili- 



ties is a difficulty in many cases, but there 

 is always storage to be had in the larger 

 centres, and the holding of some of the lat- 

 er maturing varieties for even a few weeks 

 may make a great difference in the neit re- 

 turns to the grower on the season's busi- 

 ness. I ani not advising associations to go 

 in for wholesale storage of apples, but I am 

 advising that you offer the various varieties 

 when the trade wants them. We growers 

 are sometimes in such a hurry for our 

 cheque at the close of the season, that a 

 sacrifice is made in order to turn all the 

 apples into money. 



The business of a fruit growers' associa- 

 tion should be conducted upon sound busi- 

 ness principles, keeping as free as possible 

 from speculative ventures, but you will have 

 your reverses, just the same as any other 

 business. Learn to take such things cheer- 

 fully; you will have good seasons and you 

 will have bad seasons, and I have repeatedly 

 noticed that the fellow who is dodging In 

 and out of associations always jumps the 

 traces after a lean season and misses the 

 good one to follow. 



Basket Packages for Fruit 



F. M. Clement, Horticultural Experimental Station, Vineland, Ont. 



THE ba.=?ket as we use it to-day is not 

 the product of a day or a year, but 

 has been evolved from home-made 

 boxes, baskets of various sizes and shapes, 

 boxes and other containers that at various 

 times have been used for delivering fruits to 

 the markets. It is a temporary container, 

 being only used for delivery and then dis- 

 carded or destroyed. The consumer pays 

 for the container with each basket of fruit 

 that he buys. The factor of cost in the 

 basket is essentially then an important one. 

 Because of the demand for a basket at a 

 low price, the tendency has been somewhat 

 to make a cheap basket — cheap material, 

 cheap manufacture, cheap basket. The 

 leading growers, however, demand a good- 

 quality basket. The veneer may vary in 



thickness. Veneer of good quality, cut in 

 not more than sixteen to the inch for six- 

 quart baskets, and not more than fourteen 

 to the inch for eleven-quart baskets, makes 

 a fairly substantial package. Material of 

 hard wood of excellent quality may be cut 

 a little thinner; the handle for six quarts 

 should be cut not more than eight to the 

 inch, and for eleven-quarts not more than 

 seven to the inch. The bands must be 

 strong, of good material, and all parts must 

 be well nailed. I shall be pleased to have 

 the opinion of manufacturers on these 

 standards. 



The sizes of the so-called "six" and 

 "eleven-quart" baskets are fixed by law, but 

 it is difficult to find baskets that are con- 

 structed exactly according to the standards. 



AYLMER SPRAYERS 



have won Medals 

 and are used by 

 •even Governments 



USE' 



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 SPRAYER 



Aylmer Sprayer 

 Outfit : 



Piimp, complete, 10 

 icct hose; 2 Bordeai.x 

 nozzles; I brass stop 

 cock; I Y; 1 long ex- 

 tension rod; Without 

 Iarrcl5y5.25- Lined 

 liamboo extension 

 rod. in place of 

 iron rod, $1.50 

 extra. Bar- 

 rel,S3.00ex- 

 tra. Shipped 

 freight pre- 

 paid, any 

 station in 

 Oatarios 



Fruit growers use 

 Aylmer Sprayers be- 

 cause they give RE- 

 SULTS. Aylmer 

 Sprayers have the force to 

 drive the mixture intocrc- 

 vicea of bark and buds and 

 make it penetrate the hiding 

 placesof the destructive little insects. No time wasted 

 on repairs during the Spraying Season if you KCt 

 Sprayer that DOES NOT GET OUT OF ORDER. 

 Ajiy man who has had the exasperating experience of 

 having to stop o:i account of loose "racking" on the, 

 pstons, will be glad to own an Aylmer Sprayer. It is 

 the only Sprayer constructed without troublesome 

 "packing." In the Aylmer, the pistons are made tight 

 by three bronze expanding ring'', the same as the 

 pistons in automobile engines. This Sprayer is easy 

 to pump and there is no pressure leakage; every 

 ounce of pressure being turned into 6pray work. 

 Agitators prevent clogging; nozzles are up-ti 

 date; throw full distance and with lull 

 power from a stream to a spray, 

 livery part designed to give perfect 

 ecr^'ire. Prices low. F R E F 

 OUIDE TO SPRAY Ml 

 TURtS sent on re- 

 quest. 



Aylmer Pump and Scale Co. Ltd. 



WATER ST., AYLMER, ONT. 



Douglas Gardens 



OAKVILLE, ONT. 



A gentleman who lives in Toronto, 

 and who has had experience in building 

 and planting, has recently been exam- 

 ining the lists of Herbaceous Perennials 

 to be found in many of the leading 

 Plant Catalogues issued in the U. S. 

 ajid Canada. His conclusions given — 

 not to the writer — but to a mutusil 

 friend, is that there Is no occasion for 

 going past Douglas Gardens for this 

 class of plants: that the prices are no 

 higher, and the plants are at least equal 

 to the best to be found elsewhere. 



The testimonials, the originals of 

 which are in our possession, printed In 

 our new and enlarged Planting List, go 

 to support this gentleman's conclusion. 



We are ready to send this Planting 

 List to all who request it, and to fill 

 orders from old and new customers with 

 plants fully equal to the best to be got 

 anywhere, and superior to most that are 

 sold elsewhere. 



JOHN CAVERS 



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