January, igii 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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stated that the Ottawa orchards have been 

 prayed for eighteen sucsessive years three 

 four times each year with Bordeaux 

 Tnade according tc the old formula, 4-4-40. 

 For some time lead arsenate was used 

 alone as a poison, but of late the practice 

 harl been to combine Paris green and lead 

 arsenate, in order to secure the quick 

 action of the Paris green together with the 

 adhesiveness of the leed arsenate. 



Many orchardists frequently use mere 

 fertilizer than is necessary. Trees do not 

 take a great deal from the soil and it is 

 safer to proceed slowly until experiments 

 have been made to determine the value of 

 fertilizers for each particular soil and 

 district. 



BRIGHT PROSPECTS 



Mr. A. G. Turney. Provincial Horticul- 

 tiinst, who was engaged by the New 

 Brunswick Department of Agriculture last 

 snring tc look after the fruit interests of 

 the Province, and who is in large mea- 

 sure responsible for the success of the 

 Fruit Show and Convention, expressed the 

 opinion that the outlook for apple grow- 

 ing in New Brunswick is extremely bright. 

 .Vpple raising is destined to become one of 

 its greatest industries. Splendid land is 

 available at a very low rate and within 

 easy reach of an excellent cold-storage 

 pUnt in St. John. Shipping facilities to 

 Clreit Britain are of the very best and 

 transportation rates are very moderate. 



Mr. G. H. Vroom, Dominion Fruit In- 

 sr-pctor, added very -materially tc the feel- 

 ing of optimism which characterized all 

 the meetings of the Association when he 

 stated, as reported in our last issue, that 

 there is no possible danger of over-produc- 

 tion of apples. Increased plantings of 

 fruit trees may be expected in New Bruns- 

 wick during the next few years. 



Arrangements are being made for the 

 holding of a siecia! school of box packing at 

 the same time as the short course in fruit 

 growing that will be held at the Guelph Ag- 

 ricultural College from January 23rd to 

 I<"'ebruary third inclusive. There will be a 

 thoroughly competent instructor and an ex- 

 pert packer from either British Columbia or 

 Oregon who will give several hours each day 

 during the two weeks tc personal instruction 

 of the individual student. The class will 

 be limited to thirty. Several hundred bush- 

 els of choice apules of different varieties 

 have been secured for the use of the class. 

 At the annual meeting of the Toronto 

 branch of the Ontario Vegetable Growers' 

 Association held recently, George Syme, Jr., 

 was re-elected president and Frank F. 

 Reeves Secretary-treasurer Messrs. Syme, 

 Reeves, Thos Delworth, J. W. Rush, W. 

 G. Carter, Ed. Eagle, James Dandrich, J. 

 W. Allan and J. Tizzard were elected to 

 act on the board of Vjthe provincial asso- 

 ciation. 



Douglas Gardens 



OAKVIUUE, ONTARIO 



We offer to the readers of The Canadian 

 Horticulturist The Greetings of the Season. 



We beg to announce that we shall occupy 

 this space in all the issues of this paper dur- 

 ing 1911. We shall endeavor to make it in- 

 teresting from month to month. 



We grow HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS and 

 SUMMER FLOWERING BULBS, BPecializing 

 on Paeonies. Perennial Phloxes, Shasta Daisies 

 and Gladioli. 



We want to build up a large Mail Order 

 Business, sending good sized, healthy plants 

 and bulbs all over the country, from the Atlan- 

 tic to the Pacific. We give special attention 

 to the correct labelling and packing of al) 

 orders. 



Our SPRING PLANTING LIST will be pub- 

 lished on the 1st of February. It will be mail- 

 ed to all whose named are now on our lists, 

 ind to all those interested wh^^ will send their 

 names and addresses on post cards. 



.lOHN CAVERS, Address: 



DOUGLAS GARDENS 



OAKVILLE, ONT. 



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