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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



Floral Edition. 



Advertising Apples on an Ambitious 



Scale 276 



Manitoba Fruit for Hybridization 281 



Lessons from Failures 288 



Gardens — 

 Informal Planting of Home Grounds 33, 64 

 Planning the Garden of Satisfaction. . 93 



Early Work In the Flower 94 



How I Made My Garden Pay 96 



Suggestions for May 125 



A Velvety Lawn Adds Beauty to the. . 147 

 A Garden In The Critical Month of 



June 151 



Early Season Work in the 153 



Have a Pergela in Your 170 



Cultivating, Watering and Succession 



for the Home 171 



The Garden and Grounds of Clydagh 



House 173 



Suggestions for July 174 



The Vegetable Garden in July 175 



The Garden of a Summer Cottager . . 195 



Suggestions for August 197 



September Activities in the Home. . . . 222 



Making the Garden Live Longer 270 



Planning the Home Lot 59 



Plan of a Horoe Vegetable Garden .... 90 



Preparations for Planting 121 



Luxuries for the Home Garden 122 



The Grounds and Garden of Cralgleigh 219 

 October Preparations and Precautions 



for Winter 243 



Greenhouse — 



Insect Pests in the Amateur's 5 



The Pleasures of a Home-Made 194 



Horticultural Societies — 

 1)1 35, 67, 99, 129, 155, 177, 225, 249, 275 



Insects and Diseases — 



The Fruit Tree LeafjRoller 21 



Control of Fruit Insects, With Special 



Reference to Nova Scotia 25 



Sucking Insects of the Apple 59 



Two Fruit Pests to Watch for 118 



Leaf Curl Disease of Peach 166 



Insect Pei5ts In Manitoba 205 



Diseases of Potatoes 231 



The Apple Sca;b Problem 285 



The Fruit Tree Leaf Roller in New 



York State 287 



Fighting the Potato Beetle 290 



Fighting the Pests of House Plants.. 292 



Irrigation — 

 Results from the Skinner System 143 



Markets — 



Marketing Garden Produce 17 



iCanadian Apples in South Africa .... 19 

 A Forward Step in Cooperative Mar- 

 keting 250 



Miscellaneous — 



Niagara Notes 



viii., vii., 48, 9, viii., 138, 157, 181 



Better Net Returns for Local Associa- 

 tions 68 



How to Prevent Cooperation 79 



Annapolis Valley Notes . .x., 184, 256. 281 

 Success and Failure in Cold Storage. . 100 



Better Net Returns 104 



Cooperation in the Niagara District. . 130 

 British Columibia Fruit ' Growers 



Helped 156 



Reasons for Cooperative Failures.... 159 

 Planning Cities to Make them Beau- 

 tiful 177 



Cooperative Methods Not a Cure-All. 189 

 Notes on the Montreal Fruit Trade ... 203 



Orchard — 

 The Right and Wrong Way to Care 



For An 27 



Fertilization 87 



I^inie in the 119 



Methods of Cultivation 121 



Plants— 



The Care of House 29 



Spring Work With House 124 



Pointers in Potting 127 



Winter Protection of Tender 271 



Care and Culture of House Plants 6 



Poultry — 



17 46, 80, 106, 140, v.. 213, 300 



Seeds — 



Starting Seeds in the Hotbed 63 



Conditions of the Seed Market 178 



Shru/bs — 



Pruning Shrubs 60 



Spraying- 

 Orchard Sprays 23 



Poison Sprays and Poison Baits 28 



Methods in Nova Scotia 89 



Dusting Fruit Trees 118 



Spraying at Different Dates 144 



Dust Sprayer Tested in Mr. Gibson's 



Orchard 166 



Tests of Dust Sprays 178 



Sulphur Dusting for Apple Scab in 



Nova Scotia 220 



Vegetables — 



A Northern Ontario Vegetable Garden 9 



Vegetable Growers Have Losses 13 



The Production from Seed 54 



Growing Vegetables for a Family of 



Seven 91 



Sowing . . . , 97 



Asparagus Culture 207 



Field Crop Competition 258 



Onions Along Lake Erie 267 



Profitable Vegetable Cropping 289 



Successful Vegetable Growing 290 



The Cellar Vegetable Garden 295 



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