•August, 1916. 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



207 



$500.00 per acre. Planting is on the Increase 

 and although the marlteting is now confined 

 to the city of Montreal, it would not be sur- 

 prising to find that in a few years the mar- 

 kets of Quebec will be supplied with straw- 

 berries grown within the province. 



Town Planning 



Thos. Adams, Town Planning Adviser, Commis- 

 sion of Conservation, Ottawa 



It is around the home that gardens are 

 most wanted and most easily obtaimed. 

 Provision should be made in all town plan- 

 ning to give adequate garden space to each 

 dwelling. For practical reasons it is not 

 possible to house all our people in the cities 

 *in detached homes, but we should try to 

 /make that our ideal and do what we can 

 to discourage any tendency towards the 

 tenement house or other overcrowded con- 

 ditions. The horticultural society is the 

 best means of encouraging the individual 

 householder to lay out his garden attrac- 

 tively and use it to the best advantage. 

 Without the aid of such a society the lack 

 of uniformity creates an untidy and gener- 

 ally unsatisfactory effect. 



Tenements and other buildings of that 

 class which are occupied by a number of 

 families using a piece of ground in common 

 have -usually too little open land attached 

 to them. The important thing in town 

 planning is to insist on sufficient space 

 being provided around the tenement to 

 allow of there being plenty of space for light 

 and circulation of air. If this were done 

 it would be found that even in connection 

 with such buildings there would he scope 

 for the horticulturist in the designing and 

 planting of the open space that would be 

 provided for hygienic purposes. 



The objection to even the best class of 



"apartment houses" as residences is not 

 that they represent unsatisfactory living 

 conditions, but that they are usually with- 

 out sufficient open space surrounding them. 

 When we arrive at the stage that we shall 

 insist upon a building having a proportion- 

 ately increased area of land surrounding it, 

 as it increases in height, we shall be able 

 to get healthier conditions as well as scope 

 for garden treatment which will open up 

 a new and interesting field. 



Large "apartment houses" should have 

 sufficient space adjoining them to enable 

 shade trees, tennis courts and recreation 

 spaces for children to be provided as part 

 of the equipment of the group of dwellings. 

 Under a proper system of development the 

 space so provided would not be wasted 

 land. Instead, it would be regarded as 

 necessary open space for hygienic purposes, 

 and its use for recreation and gardening 

 would give this open space the position of 

 being a real asset in the rental value of 

 the premises. 



won, as a market and a reputation must be 

 found before it can be made a profitable 

 line to follow. There is no reason why al- 

 most any one cannot have a small bed of 

 asparagus sufficiently large to supply the 

 home table, but tfie growing of asparagus 

 in a commercial way is not a business for 

 the average farmer. It belongs to the realm 

 of special farming, where only those who 

 have a liking for that particular line of work 

 can make a success of the business. — W. 

 G. O. 1 



Asparagus Culture 



SOME six or seven years ago, Mr. W. C. 

 Dempsey, Prince Edward Co., Ont., set 

 out about two and a half acres of aspar- 

 agus. In a recent interview Mr. Dempsey 

 told me that he was having fairly good suc- 

 cess with it, but that he had waited many 

 years for these results. I had an oppor- 

 tunity of seeing the trays being loaded with 

 this delicacy and my thoughts naturally 

 turned to the question of the profits to be 

 derived from asparagus culture. The re- 

 Fults of my enquiries fully convinced me 

 that in order to successfully grow aspara- 

 gus on a commercial scale, years of experi- 

 ence and patient waiting are required, and 

 even then only half of the way to succe.ss is 



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