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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



February, 191 1 



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 C— Fire Box 

 D— A«h Pan 

 E— Smoke Pipe 



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 with a single tank and ono with a double tank, as shown in illus- 

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The tanks are made of heavily galvanized steel, thoroughly 

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NEW COLORED FREESIAS 



The mo^ intere^ing novelty offered this year. 

 No such colors have aa yet been seen in the 

 Sweet Scented Freesias, ranging, as they do 

 from pink, red, hlac, violet to yellow and 

 orange ; will flower seven months after sowing 



DUPUY & FERGUSON 



38 Jacques Cartier Square 

 MONTREAL 



Got 98 Apples Out of 



Every 100 Free From Worm Cuts 



was only /2 



In an orchard of 3,000 trees, the percentage of apples injured by codling moth 

 i only yi oi 1%. The Rose Cliff Fruit Farm, of Wanesboro, Va., also reported 

 that when the 



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THE VREELAND CHEMICAL CO.. 

 46 Church St., New York 



Northern British Columbia will constitute 

 the fifth rffioial division, to which two or- 

 chards will be given, one in the Kitsum- 

 k*lum, and the other at Lakelse. 



Nova Scotia 



B7 A. Ktliilj, WilBot, N. S. 



The popularity of the Farmers' Short 

 Course, held annually at the Nova Scotia 

 Agricultural College, grows wi+h each suc- 

 cee<linK year. As might be exnected, how- 

 ever, the students of horticulture were less 

 in number this year than in the few pre- 

 ceding years, owing to the comparative 

 failure of horticultural crops during the 

 pa.st season. 



Professor Shaw, the Nova Scotian horti- 

 culturist, was most ably assisted by Mr. A. 

 McNeil, of Ottawa, and by Mr. "Johnson, 

 Mr. Messenger, and Mr. Bishop, promi- 

 nent horticulturists of the Annapolis 

 Valley. 



PLANTrNG j 



Profe8.sor Shaw introduced a d i.scussion j 

 on the planting of an orchard, the sub- ' 

 stance of which is as follows : Orchard land 

 in Nova Scotia in a condition ready to 

 plough costs from ten dollars to ninety dol- 

 lars per acre, the average nrice being pro- 

 bably thirty dollars to fortv dollars. Usu- 1 

 ally no returns are obtained until the or- 

 chard has been out from seven to n 

 years, though no regular substantial 

 turns are made until the twelfth >> ..1 

 from planting. If no barn manure is avail- 

 able and the orchardist relies entirely on 

 commercial fertilizer to supply the neces- 

 sary plant food, the total cost of growing 

 an acre of orchard until it is six years old 

 is two hundred and forty dollars. The 

 apples obtained during the next six years 

 that is until the orchard is twelve years 

 old. will pay for the entire expenditure on 

 the orchard until that time. An acre of 

 orchard in prime condition is worth from 

 five hundred dollars to one thousand dol- 

 lars per acre. Surelv the growing of an 

 orchard in Nova Scotia is one of the best 

 financial propositions of the present time. 



Any land in Nova Scotia which is deep 

 and well drained, and will grow ordinary 

 farm crops, will grow apples. Many or- 

 chardists prefer a gravelly loam, and pre- 

 fer the site to be higher than the sur- 

 rounding land. Probably this is on account 

 of _ the superior natural drainage of such 

 soils. The desirable slope of an orchard 

 site depends a great deal on the locality. 

 A northern slope will retard the blossom- 

 ing and consequently lessen the danger of 

 injury through late spring frosts. A sou- 

 thern slope will produce earlier maturing 

 anples of a Letter color : while an eastern 

 slope i-; generally nroteotel from the pre- 

 vailing western winds. 



The year 1910, in spite of the light 

 apple crop, has had advantages as well 

 as disadvantages in that many more 

 people are becoming interested in spray- 

 ing and the better care of their orchards. 

 — R. R. Sloan, Proctor's Hill, Ont. 



While probably 99 per cent, of the spr.iy- 

 ing done in Nova Scotia has been with Bor- 

 deaux ; in the spring of 1911 probablv 00 

 per cent, will be with lime sulphur. — S.C.P. 



British Columbia Pruit Growers 

 Association 



At the annual meeting of the British 

 Colnmbin Fruit-growers A.ssociation held in 

 Victoria, January 6th and 7th, the chief 



