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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



June, 1916. 



CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS 



Advertisements in this department Inserted at rate of 3 cents a word for each In- 

 sertion, each figure, sign, or single letter to count as one word, minimum cost SOCh 

 strictiy cash in advance. 



REAL ESTATE 



ALL KINDS OF FARMS — Fruit farms a speci- 

 alty. Writ* for CjiUlogue. W. B. Calder, 

 Qrtmrtijr. 



FARIVIS— All UnxU, all sizes, for eal«. fruit 

 atock, grain and dairy farms. Let me know 

 wthat you are lookinK for. H. W. Daweon, 

 Brampton, Ont. 



SEEDS. 



YOU WANT "Reliable Seeds," get our Seed 

 Price List and Save Money. Morg-an's Sup- 

 ply House, London. 



SPRAYING. 



SAVE IVIONEY — Get our Spraying and Garden 

 Supply Catalog. Morgan's Supply House, 

 London. 



BEES. 



CARNIOLAN, GOLDEN AND THREE BAND- 

 ED ITALIANS. Bees by the pound, Nuclei. 

 Ready to go April 1st, Write for price list. 

 C. B. Bankston, Buffalo, Leon Co., Texas. 



BEES and QUEENS from my New Jersey 

 Apiary. Price list free. J. H. M. Cook, 70 

 Cortland St., New Tork Cdty. 



ITALIAN BEES AND QUEENS as advertised 

 on page 160. Catalogue free. Deroy Taylor 

 Co., Newark,, N.T. 



BEST THREE BANDED QUEENS at lowest 

 prices, after June 1. Also Bees by the pound. 

 Satisfaction guaranteed. Send for circular. 

 J. H. Haughey, Berrien Springs, Mich. 



BEES — Per pound, .$2.15; per frame, $2.35; 

 queen, $1.00. Comb foundation, light brood 

 or extracting, per pound, 60c. Langstroth 

 hives and frames, painted and empty (new), 

 $1.60 each. Address Aurora Apiary, Aurora, 

 Onit. 



FOR SALE — Hardy, healthy honey bees from 

 diseaseless district. Nuclei and full colonies 

 at low prices. Good shipping facilities to all 

 Canadian points. May to October. The Rahn 

 Bee & Honey Co., Ltd., Haileybury, Ontario. 



WANTED— A few English Queens (BLACK). 

 Wm. Reid, White Valley, Vernon, B.C. 



GOLDEN ITALIAN QUEENS— Bred from a 

 strain of great honey gatherers, (Gentle and 

 proUflc. Untested— 1, 75c; 6, $4,25; 12, $8.00; 

 50, $32.50; 100, $60,00, All orders promptly 

 filled and safe arrlvfil guaranteed, L, J, 

 Pfelfter. R,F,D. No. 16, Los Gates, Cai., XJ.B.A. 



LET US send you price list and descriptive 

 circular of our bees and queens, and If you 

 will tell us what size and how many pack- 

 ages you may want we will tell what the 

 Express will amount to. R. V. & M. C. 

 Stearns, Brady, Texas. 



FOR SALE — Italian queens from the best honey 

 gathering strains — untested queen, 75c; 6, 

 $4.25; 12, $8,00; tested queens. 1, $1,25; 6, $7.00; 

 12, $12,00, Robert B, Spicer, Wharton, N.J, 



TRY US — Pure Italian Queens, untested, 60c; 6, 

 $3,50; 12, $6.50, Whitt & Lovejoy. Sinking 

 Creek Apiaries, Gimlet, Ky. 



BEE SUPPLIES. 



BEEKEEPERS — Please write for our Catalog. 

 Morgan's Supply House, London. 



1,000 GUIVIMED HONEY LABELS, two color*, 

 any wording, for $1.30. Catalogue fre«. Slast- 

 ern Label Co., CUntonvlUe, Conn. 



A DAUGHTER of one of Dr. Miller's beat honey 

 queens, and the Beekeeper's Review for 1916 

 for only $2.00. A daughter of one of the 

 very best honey-getting queens selected from 

 1.100 colonies worked for extracted honey, 

 from the yards of E, D. Townsend & Sons, 

 and the Review for 1916 for only $1,75. The 

 queens will be mailed In June direct from 

 our breeders in the South. A rare buy. Bee- 



• keepers' Review, North Star, Mich., U.S.A. 



could have used larger space, we could have 

 supplied those advertising features which 

 compel or impel the attention of women, 

 and we would have oversold your whole 

 Niagara Peninsula crop at even better 

 ■prices than those obtained. 



The little fruit bulletins were good In 

 their -Hray. They led up to the final large 

 crop— peaches. At the last moment the Do- 

 minion Government, through the fruit com- 

 missioner, Mr. D. Johnson, gave $5,000, with 

 which to get real action. And believe me 

 gentlemen, that the display advertising 

 ■which this government money ipurchased 

 really saved the day. If we had not had 

 this last extra display advertising you would 

 have been as badly off as the American 

 speaker indicated when he said that had it 

 not been for the tariff wall, last year the 

 New Yorkers would have "buried you in 

 eight feet of peaches." Had it not been 

 for the last seven weeks of large display 

 advertising, you would have had a two-foot 

 layer of peaches on your land to-day. (Ap- 

 plause). 



I have been accumulaiting, for the benefit 

 of your committee, data on the retail prices 

 of fruits as sold in the stores throughout 

 the Dominion. I know the prices at which 

 this fruit was offered by the dealers, and 

 year for year you must admit that you sold 

 peaches in 1915 at better prices than 1914 

 or 1913 or even 1912, And gentlemen I Ibe- 

 lieve that advertising did it. 



Apple Orchards Decreasing 



Geo. E. Sanders, Annapolis Royal, N.S. 



In talking over the outlook for the apple 

 business with different people, and reading 

 what I could with a bearing on the future, I 

 have obtained several interesting bits of 

 information. Prof, T. G, Bunting, of Mac- 

 donald College, tells me that he has in- 

 vestigated and finds that there are fewer 

 apple trees east of the Mississippi or in 

 eastern America to-day than there were 

 twenty years' ago, Mr, F, S, Walsh, Agri- 

 culturist to the New York Central Railway, 

 whose business it Is to know such things 

 for his employers, tells me that there are 

 fewer apple trees In New York State to- 

 day than In 1891. 



Several factors explain this falling off In 

 orchards in eastern America. The most 

 important is the San Jose Scale, which has 

 killed fhousands of acres of apple and 



peach trees in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Vir- 

 ginia, New York, Connecticut and Massa- 

 chusetts. In addition to killing off the un- 

 cared for orchards the San Jose Scale is 

 making it almoet impossible to grow a 

 young orchard in Infested distrlcU as the 

 profits from apples in the middle states are 

 not large enough to justify the extra care 

 necessary. The fact that peaches are a 

 much more profitable crop than apples in 

 some sections has caused a portion of the 

 reduction. Lack of profit and general ne- 

 glect have also been the cause of a large 

 amount of the decrease in Massachusetts, 

 Maine, New Hampshire and other states. 



British Columbia 



The work of the inspection of importe<l 

 fruit, nursery stock, vegeUbles, trees and 

 plants, and field and orchard inspection work 

 has heretofore been administered by the 

 Fruit Inspection Branch of the Department 

 of Agriculture, under the direction of the 

 late Thomas Cunningham, Inspector of Fruit 

 Pests. A reorganization of this work has 

 been effected, and all field inspection work 

 will hereafter be under the direction and 

 control of the Horticultural Branch of the 

 Department 



R, M. Winslow, B.S.A,, Provincial Horti- 

 culturist, has been gazetted as Provincial 

 Horticulturist and Inspector of Fruit Pests, 

 W. H. Lyne has been gazetted Inspector of 

 Imported Fruit and Nursery Stock. 



The duties of the inspector of Imported 

 fruit and nursery stock will be confined to 

 the work now carried on at our Provincial 

 Inspection and Fumigating Station at Van- 

 couver, by enforcing the provisions of the 

 provincial regulations, and also those Issued 

 under the Dominion Destructive Insect and 

 Pest Act, The inspection of Imported fruit, 

 vegetables, nursery stock, grains, rice, com, 

 etc, at all ports of entry into the province, 

 will also be undertaken by this branch of the 

 Department 



Items of Interest 



The Dominion Fruit Division announces 

 that there is every prospect of a satisfac- 

 tory production of large fruits in Canada 

 next fall. Trees have come through the 

 winter in fine condition, and from all parts 

 of the Dominion reports Indicate that with 

 favorable weather the crop .siould be well 

 above the average. Frost is reported to 

 have injured the peach and sweet cherry 

 buds in British Columbia and in some fruit 

 districts of the Northwestern States, No 

 frost injury is reported in Ontario or E!ast- 

 ern Canada. 



So many new discoveries of new facts by 

 plant investigators, shortcuts and "wrinkles" 

 worked out by plant propagators, and nurs- 

 ery, greenhouse and garden methods sim- 

 plified or made more effective, have made 

 books hitherto available on plant propaga- 

 tion out of date, A new book by Professor 

 Kains will appeal with equal force to the 

 amateur, the professional propagator, and 

 the teacher in agricultural colleges and 

 schools. The table of contents includes: 

 An introduction on general principles, ger- 

 mination, seed testing, potting, layerage, 

 bottom heat, cuttage, classes of cuttings, 

 graftage, and theories and laws, Daniel's 

 experiments in graftage, tree stocks and 

 scion handling, grafting waxes and wound 

 dressing, methods of grafting considered in- 

 dividually, budding methods, nursery man- 

 agement, and laws affecting nursery stock. 

 Illustrated, 5% x 714 inches, 342 pages. 

 Cloth, Price, net, $1,50, Orange Judd Com- 

 pany, New York, 



