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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTUHIST 



March, 191 1 



SMALL FRUIT PLANTS 



Gooteberriet, Josselyn, Red Jacket, Downinjr, Pearl, Houghton. — CorraBtt, 

 Perfection, Ruby, Cherry, White Grape, Lee's Prolific, Champion, Black 

 Naples, Victoria. — Raipberriet, Herbert, Cuthbert, Marlboro, Brinckle's 

 Orange, Golden Queen, Strawberry-Raspberry. — Garden Roots, Asparagus, 

 Rhubarb, Perennial Celery, Write for Catalogue. 

 WM. FLEMING, Nurseryman, Box 54, Owen Sound, Ontario 



Get 9896 or Better 



Perfect Fruit ^ 



There will be no "off year" for your trees if you cultivate them 

 right and protect them against all insect enemies with 



ELECTRO Arsenate of Lead 



(in Powdered Form) 

 It is certain death to all leaf-eating insects. You can depend absolutely on dry 

 Electro Arsenate of Lead because it is the only one in amorphous (non-crystalline) form. 

 Mixes instantly with water and stays long in suspension — or can be used as a dust. Rain 

 cannot wash it off. We guarantee it to contain 32>^-33% arsenic oxide — twice the 

 strength of other brands— yet it will not harm the tcnderest foliage because it contains 

 less than ^ of 1% water-soluble arsenic. Prove it from tests at Conn, and N. J. Agri. 

 Exper. Stations. Write us for them. 



Send for folder on Electro, interesting to all fruit growers. Folder on Electro Lime 

 Sulphur tells how to use this solution which is certain death to San Jose 

 Scale and sucking insects and the best fungicide for summer treatment. 

 Buy F.leciro brands from your dealer, but if he cannot supply, send to 

 s for prices and proofs and natne of nearest distributor , 



THEVR ELAND CHEMICAL CO. 



46 Church ; Iretl, New Yoik 



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, DEALERS EVERYWHERE SELL RENmE'SSEEDS'r 

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British Columbia 



The Grand Forks Fruit Growers' Asso- 

 ciation got a car load of lime-sulphur ear- 

 ly last winter and sold it to growers out 

 cf the Association at a price just slightly 

 above cost. This enabled our orchardists 

 to secure the material for spraying at a 

 reasonable price in spite of high freight 

 rates. A very large percentage of them 

 made purchases, and spraying throughout 

 the district was general. One gallon of the 

 concentrated sulrihur was used to ten gal- 

 lons of water. 



During November a number of the or- 

 chardists sprayed with bordeaux mixture, 

 using eight pounds bluestone, eight pounds 

 lime to fifty gallons cf water, a few using 

 as high as twelve pounds bluestone, twelve 

 pounds of lime to fifty gallons water ; for 

 contrary to the conclusions of seme ex- 

 perts, the fungus known here as apple an- 

 thracnose has made its appearance. It has 

 usually been considered that in this dry 

 climate anthracnose, even if it made its 

 appearance, would not live, but it does. 

 The Canadian Horticulturist should be 

 in all orchardists' hands. — Ccoper Bros., 

 Grand Forks, B.C. 



W. S. Johnson, wholesale fruit merchant 

 of Brisbane, Australia, has written for 

 prices of apples and pears in the province 

 and for facts concerning the freight rates 

 and shipment. He states that he became 

 interested in British Columbia fruit re- 

 sources through reading accounts of the 

 recent Canadian apple show and believes 

 a good trade can be worked up with Bris- 

 bane merchants. He states he will probably 

 come personally to look over the field 

 during the year. 



Alberta 



A. G. Bcanett, EdmoBton District, Alberts 



Will fruit of any kind grew in Northern 

 Alberta" This is the question a new set- 

 tler asks when he lands in the vicinity of 

 Edmonton. It is 100 chances to one that 

 the ans\ver is "No." especially if the one 

 he asks is an "Old Timer," as We class our 

 earliest settlers. Why is he so sure that 

 fruit will not grow in Alberta? Simply 

 because he has not had the time or is tco 

 much taken up in growing grain to pay 

 any attention Co his surroundings. 



Take a look in our upland pastures. 

 What do we find? Strawberries c-ery- 

 where. Wander into our burnt timber re- 

 gions : Raspberries, blue-berries, saska- 

 tocns, pin-cherries, red and black cur- 

 rants, mountain-ash and so forth — all 

 growing and ripening iirofusely. This was 

 what struck me the first summer after 1 

 arrived from Denver, Colorado. Surely, 

 if such wild fruit will grow to perfection 

 without cultivation, why not try the cul- 

 tivated kinds under thorough cultivation? 



PRODUCE HAltDr VARIETIES 



Then came my first difficulty. To pro- 

 duce fruit one must bring his stock from 

 some district in the same latitude or bet- 

 ter still, from further north, to be suc- 

 cessful. This was impossible. The cnly 

 alternative was to get stock from the 

 south, and by careful nursing over the 

 first winter, cross-fertilize the blossoms 

 the following summer with the native 

 strawberry, and thereby produce a plant 

 tc stand our climate. The result has been 

 a complete success. The first northern 

 grown strawberries were sold in commer- 

 cial quantities in Edmonton this summer. 



The same course will answer with rasp- 

 berries, gooseberries and currants. It 

 would seem, therefore, that before many 

 years the district between Edmonton and 



