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THE CANADIAM HORTICULTURIST 



April, 191 1 



Only thorough work with the best macliinery will 

 accomplish the best paying results from spraying. 



You mujt spray if you would have perfect fruit, and it 

 doesn't pay to bother with a cheap outfit. It means no 

 end of trouble and it's too risky — you have too much 

 at stake. 



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No pupil may receive more than two 

 prizes, but a prize winner may also win a 

 medal. 



The gardens of all competitors will h. 

 first examined by the teachers of the 

 school in each ward. A committee of the 

 teachers should reduce the gardens to the 

 best ten belonging to Fcurth Book pupils 

 and the best ten belonging to Third Book 

 pupils. Committees of the Horticultural 

 Society will be apjjointed to visit these ten 

 and award the prizes to the beet. 



The Horticultural .Society has arranged 

 with the Davies Manufacturing Company 

 to have fertilizers delivered at the schools 

 for one cent per package. 



Suggestions for Lawn 

 Competitions 



II. W. Brooks, secretary Brantford Horti- 

 cultural Society, sends the following sug- 

 gestions to members to aid them in pre- 

 paring for lawn competitions : 



In marking, the whole place is oonsidti 

 ed; the lawn and the garden is marked 

 on five points — 



1. General effect or lay out, or ground 

 plan of the place, 30 points. 



2. Neatness and order in keeping lawns, 

 walks and boulevards, 20 points. Keep 

 your lawn thoroughly weeded, and edges 

 neatly trimmed; mow as often as the 

 mower will cut it. 



3. Care and taste shown in selection of 

 flowers, plants and shrubs, etc., 20 points. 

 In laying out ycur plantings as a rule 

 avoid straight lines and sharp angles. 



4. Floral display, 20 points. Plant all 

 flowers you wish, but plant shrubs at theii 

 back to give a more pleading effect whili; 

 the annuals are out of season, as well as 

 when they are in bloom. 



5. Difficulties overcome, 10 points. Some 

 allowance is made in new lawns or old fen- 

 ces covered with wires, or any drawback 

 the competitor may have. Try to plant so 

 as to make the whole place one single pic- 

 ture of a home, with the house its chief 

 feature, and the outside boundary line its 

 frame. 



Major H. J. Snelgrcve, a representative 

 of the Ontario Horticultural Association on 

 the Board of the Canadian National Ex 

 hibition, put up a stiff fight for giving a 

 square deal" to amateur floriculturists, and 

 succeeded in inducing the Agricultural and 

 Horticultural (jommittoe to revise the prize 

 list so as to increase the prize money for 

 certain classes and bring others within the 

 scope of amateur growers. Professional flor- 

 ists will not have it all their own way this 

 year, as formerly. The prize list will be 

 issued in April. Mr. R. B. Whyte, of Ot- 

 tawa was selected as judge in the floricul 

 tural department. 



The growers and packers of oranges, 

 lemons, pine apples, and box apples are 

 endeavoring to put up each year a more 

 attractive and superior article. An attrac- 

 tive substitute ns taken in preference to a 

 scabby, ill appearing apple, and we must 

 at least keep posted or the King of Fruits 

 in the East will be compelled to take a 

 tion and declining popularity. — Jas. E. 

 tion and declinng popnlarty. — Jas. E. 

 Johnston, Simcoe, Ont. 



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We have still on hand a few copies of the 

 Index to volume XXX., which will be sent to 

 those of our readers requesting same. They 

 are free but are only sent on request. 



