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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



Floral Edition. 



You Can Grow Prize Fruit by 



SPRAYING 



your fruit trees with the right sprayer. 



Over two hundred prize winners at last year's Fairs were grow- 

 ers who used our Sprayer last Spring, and who followed our directions 

 about when and how to spray trees. 



Your orchard can be made to produce three times its last year's 

 yield, and the extra profit will add many dollars to your banlc bal- 

 ance if you spray with the 



I. X. L. JUNIOR Automatic Power Sprayer 



The I. X. L. Junior is 

 made in two styles. It 

 consists of a 3% H.P. En- 

 gine, cypress tank, gear 

 driven vertical cylindei 

 pump, two 25 ft. leads of 

 Hose, two visible spray 

 nozzles, complete in all 

 details. 



Weight, 450 lbs. 



i. X. L. with 100 gallon tank, $165.00 



I. X. L. with 150 gallon tank, 170.00 



I. X. L. with 200 gallon tank, 180.00 



For rough or hilly orchards, common in some parts, the machine 



which best fills the requirements is our back-mounted 



Pontiac Special 



Automatic Power Sprayer 



This machine is equipped with the same engine as the I.X.L., and 

 is made with two size tanks. 



150 Gallon Tank, 50 ft. Hose, 2 poles $200.00 



:00 Gallon Tank, 50 ft. Hose, 2 poles $210.00 



We have prepared a valuable booklet entitled, "Prize 

 Fruit and Vegetables from your Orchard and Garden," 

 which is free to all farmers, fruit and vegetable growers. 

 Use the coupon and send for your copy to-day. 



Canadian Sprayer Co. 



TRENTON, ONTARIO 



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exceptional chances to place her apples in 

 the British and other colonial markets at 

 an advantage. He gave a full account of 

 what they were doing at Ottawa in the 

 originating of new varieties. Seven hundred 

 varieties had been tested there, and they 

 had one hundred kinds that were very pro- 

 mising and likely to cake the place of older 

 kinds. He thought it would be profitable in 

 the future to grow early-beariag varieties. 

 By planting trees closer judiciously, a large 

 amount of fruit couid be obtained from a 

 small piece of ground in a short time. He 

 recommendGd the following varieties for the 

 Niagara District: Red Astrachan. Duchess. 

 Wealthy, Gravenstcin, Blenheim, Hubbard- 

 son, Mcintosh, Fameuse, Greening, Baldwin. 

 Spy. He considered that good summer, fall 

 and winter varieties of the highest quality 

 would be very profltuble In the Niagara Dis- 

 trict. 



Mr. McCubbin repeated his address on 

 "Fruit Diseases of the Year." 



Mr. C. A. Pratt gave a capital address on 

 "Strawberries." Large crops of good fruit 

 can't be grown from poor plants. First-class 

 plants and rich soil are necessary. Barn- 

 yard manure Is the best manure for the 

 strawberry. In plantmg make an opening 

 In the soil, place the plant in It and make 

 the soil firm against the roots. Plants must 

 be cultivated well and carefully, and the 

 crowns must not be covered with soil. They 

 grow a propagating bed for plants every 

 year. For variettea they grow Senator Dun- 

 lap for early, Gandy and Brandywine for 

 late. Rotating the crops is the best way to 

 control insect diseases. For the last "two 

 or three years they ppray their fltrawherries 

 wUh Conner sulnhate; first, lust before the 

 bloRsomins: next, l>Ptween blossoming and 

 picking. Chlckwepd Is a hard pronosttion in 

 a strawberry patch. They mulch their 

 plants with marsh hay. It should be done 

 earlv in the fall. 



iMr. D. Johnson spoke on the marketing 

 of fruit, and sugeested that the growers 

 should get together in the Niagara District 

 and formulate a plan to market their fruit 

 co-operatively. Last year they had come to- 

 gether and advprtised Niaeara District fruit, 

 consequently Niagara peaches had been used 

 where they had never been used before. 

 "This year you exncct again to have a large 

 crop of peaches, therefore you should organ- 

 ize now, and be ready to handle the crop." 



Prof. J. W. Crow, of Guelph, considered 

 fruit growing too risky for a man to raise 

 only one kind of fruit, and advocated an 

 apple orchard in addition to other kinds of 

 fruit for the Niagara District. He strongly 

 urged fruit growera to raise a variety of 

 fruits, as in this way a paying crop could 

 be raised every year. He was of opinion 

 that Northern Spys in Ontario are usually 

 produced at a loss. Many fruit growers 

 injure their business by asking too high a 

 price for their frulL. 



Mr. Bush repeated his excelleat address 

 as given at Grimsby. 



Mr. E. D. Reed gave full dara couceminu 

 the Publicity Association's advertising cam- 

 paign of last season. The greatest benefit 

 derived last year was when the Dominion 

 Government helped by inserting large show 

 advertisements in the dally newspapers. 



An informal round-table talk was held in 

 the evening, at wiiich marketing and co- 

 operation were the chief subjects discussed. 



iMr. W. T. Macoun spoke the last day on 

 '^Small Fruits." He advised getting plants 

 nearby if possible, as the loss was heavy 

 when obtained from a distance. Currants 

 needed severe pruning, good manuring with 

 barnyard manure, and a soil with plenty of 

 moisture. Mr. Macoun went fully into the 



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