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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



Jane, 1916. 



A Greenhouse to 

 Welcome Winter 



There is a wealth ot pleasure in a greenhouse when falling leaves and frost 

 in the air herald the approach ot Winter, while horticultural work goes on with 

 renewed enthusiasm under the protecting glass. 



Why do we speak of winter now, with Spring just arrived? Because a green- 

 house for November joys should be under construction without delay. Write 

 for the book of Glass Gardens which explains more about it. Address Dept. B. 



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Orchardists are now fully persuaded ihai 

 commercial fertlliers and cover crops 

 warrant extension without regard to hay 

 land and stock. As their crops have in- 

 creased they have recognized their ability 

 to handle the greater quantities with as 

 much ease as the smaller and with 

 inflnitely greater satisfaction. This largely 

 pertains of course where such crops a* 

 3,000 to 4,000 barrels are harvested when 

 the inspiration and ambition and confidence 

 increases In greater ratio than the bu^ 

 ness. Men are beginning to realize th:. 

 fruit growing can be extended as Luccees- 

 fully as any other line of industry, and as 

 they separate the profits of the orchard 

 from their other crops they realize the 

 superiority of the apple trees as money, 

 makers. 



The Profits Earned. 



A carefully tabulated statement, which 

 has stood the test of several years, shows 

 the net profits of well-cared for orchards to 

 be about 16 per cent, annually on a valu- 

 ation of $1,000 per acre. This stateiment 

 has been fully verified and endorsed by the 

 Fruit Growers' Association. A dozen years 

 ago a $20,000 orchard was considered so 

 only on paper. Five years later a $50,000 

 orchard was thought impossible. This year 

 some young orchards getting nicely under 

 way, hardly commencing their business 

 career, will pay (or would pay were it not 

 for the war in Europe) better than bank 

 interest on $60,000. Ten years hence a 

 $100,000 proposition with an output of over 

 10,000 barrels of apples is likely to be a 

 reality in Nova Scotia. The war for a time 

 will, and does, doubtless restrict the ex- 

 pansion of the trade to Europe, which had 

 so greatly improved and expanded in the 

 past five years, but new markets are open- 

 ing. The American market, which was 

 practically ignored by the Nova Scotians in 

 the piping times of peace, is now relied on 

 to take a large quantity of the product. 

 Portland and Boston are good markets 

 which may be relied on. 



Intensive Planting. 



The system of intensive planting is every 

 year becoming more popular than the old 

 way of forty permanent trees to the acre. 

 Fillers can be transplanted with not more 

 than one or two years check, and no longer 

 need the beginner in orcharding worry 

 over the purchase or the clearing up and 

 the fencing and cultivation of twenty acres 

 of land in order to plant 1,000 trees. These 

 trees can be easily planted on two to four 

 acres if desired and the encumbrance of 

 larger areas to contain them permanently 

 may be considered later when time and 

 means are smaller factors. With early- 

 bearing varieties as "fillers" applied to 

 this system the ambition of any orchardis^t 

 to harvest 1,000 or 2,000 barrels may be 

 realized in eight to ten years from the start 

 instead of waiting a lifetime. 



For these and other reasons' it is plain 

 that Nova Scotia's apple output must 

 naturally increase in greater ratio than dur- 

 ing the past twenty years, which ratio has 

 been practically constant. Shortly before 

 the outbreak of the war a large grower in 

 the Annapoli-s Valley and well-known 

 statistican, stated that during the next 

 twenty-five years, besides local consump- 

 tion. Nova Scotia will be shipping, 1915-20, 

 1,085,170 barrels; 1920-25, 1.627,755 bar- 

 rels; 1925-30, 2,441,632 'barrels, and that be- 

 yond this latter period it will go beyond 

 the three million mark. We all hope and 

 trust these ambitious figures will be 

 realized. 



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