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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



May, ign 



Wrlag pian0s 



THE PRIDE OF 

 OWNERSHIP 



To own a Gourlay Piano is to be proud of your piano. 

 If you are a musician, the sympathetic bond between 

 you will be strong indeed, for a Gourlay piano responds 

 to every mood of the player. There is a crispness and 

 delicacy of tone for the daintiest improvisation and a 

 richness and volume for the most exacting bravura 

 passages. 



If you are not a player, but a lover of music, the 

 pleasure of your friends' enthusiasm will more than 

 repay you for the amount of your investment, to say 

 nothmg of the extra years of service over an ordinary 

 piano. Write for Catalogue and prices. 



GOURLAY, WINTER & LEEMING 



188 YONGE ST., TORONTO 



You Can't GroMr Crops 

 without Nitrogen 



You've got to give it to them in some way, and the 

 Quickest —Cheapest Cleanest 



way is to use 



Nitrate o! Soda 



Because: The Nitrate willjact at once. It is the form of nitrogen the plant may 

 take up without.previous or delayed soil nitration, All it.s nitrogen is available. It is 

 pure plant food.i It is as clean to handle as sand. .'l. 



It will pay you to top dress your meadow withJilOO lbs. per acre, and to add some 

 Nitrate of^Soda to^our complete fertilizer. 



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CHEMICAL LABORATORIES, Ltd. 



148 VAN HORN STREET, 



PULTiVATE OFTEN 



and you hold the moisture 

 in ttiti ground. Culcivute 

 ■baltow or deep as the crop 

 need* it and you release the 

 forgotteu or unknown soii 

 propertits which are needed 

 to make the crop grow prop, 

 erty. We have been niakin, 

 farm tools for 75 years am 

 think we bavo m good a line 

 of Hiding CultivatorB us yoo 

 need to choose from. 



TORONTO, CANADA 



mONAGE RIDING CULTIVATORS 



are long lived machinea— B'ljustfllili' f t rnwa 1^ to 50 

 tucbea. while in motion — teeth adjustaljli' for dfiah iind 

 angle— pivot or fixed wlieel.oiie row or tw,>— higii or low 

 wheeU— work well on blllsides — farm close 

 and true. A complete line. Our Anniver- 

 sary Cntfllog will show you — also, potato 

 itiHchtiH-ry. garden wheel boes and drillfl^ 

 I'tc. Address 



BATEMAN M'F'G CO. 

 _Bpx 5 1 67 GRENLOCH.N.J. 



Stocks carried at many coaveDieut point*. Ask 

 for address of nearest Canadian Agency. 



LOOK, READ, ACT ! 



stock Guaranteed No. 1 



Roses two year, strong, H. P. Moss 

 .ind Climbing, 12c; Flowering Shrubs, 

 large assortment, 5c, 10c and 15c; Dutch 

 Pipe and large flowering Clematis, all 

 colors, at 30c; Perfection Currant, strong, 

 two years, $10; other currants, $6 per 100; 

 Cherry, Pear, Plum and Spy Apples, 30c; 

 other apples 25c; Cuthbert Easpberries 

 $7 per thousand; Peach trees at 20c: Hon- 

 eysuckles, 15c: Boston Ivy, 15c; Wistaria 

 20c; German Iris 10c; Paeonies, all colors, 

 15c; Liliee, 10c; Tree Boses, Hardy Bho- 

 dodendrons ajid Azaleas, Blue Spruce. 

 Write your wants. All must go. 



Eastern Annapolis Valley 



E. W. Backaaaii 



The weather in Nova Scotia during the 

 past winter has be«n the most severe ever 

 rcmen,bere<l, but so far March has been fine 

 and frosty with brilliant sun. The apple 

 orcliards look promising ; the wood ripeneH 

 well last season and now there are to 1 

 seen a fine lot of fruit buds. 



When we left Scotland in February, the 

 trees there were exceptionally advanced, 

 the white buds on the pears were almcst 

 ready to burst into blossom, while rhodo 

 dondrons, primroses, crocus and snow dro] 

 were in full blcom. Vegetation was ju, 

 as forward in England where the winUi 

 has been unusually mild, however, if a 

 spring frost occurs it will do a lot of dam 

 age in the Old Country which may in- 

 directly affect Canadian fruit returns" next 

 fall. 



Nursery stock, home grown and importe'l 

 is now being root gri'fted. While in Fraiu 

 we walked over several of the famous Oi 

 leans nurseries (there are two hundred ci 

 them which supply the world with root 

 stocks of various kinds). Owing to the 

 rains and floods, the quantity and in some 

 instances the quality of these stocks is not 

 so great or so good as ether years and it i.s 

 hard to supply the demand, owing to this 

 scarcity; this too will probably affect the 

 Canadian orchardist. 



Ar W. GRAHAM 



ST. THOMAS 



ONT. 



Money in Apples in P. E. I. 



I know a man who stated in public last 

 December that he had harvested a barrel a 

 tree from Wealthys seven years plajited 

 and it is not impossible for others to do 

 likewise. These trees can be set out 16 

 by 20 feet or closer, making 162 tsrees to 

 the acre. At a barrel a tree and $3.00 

 per barrel this would give $456.00 per acre. 

 Of course this is an exceptional case but 

 just cut it in two and for your five acre or- 

 chard you have a revenue of $1140.00 in 

 seven year's time. 



Is this not worth trying for." Cultiva- 

 tion, fertilization and thinning the fruit 

 will do it. Then the work is very light 

 compared with other farm work. 



NO LIMIT TO THE MARKET 



Some one may say that if every on© 

 started this work the market would be 

 glutted. The same was said when we start- 

 ed the cheese industry. Why we have not 

 half enough apples on Prince Edward Is- 

 land to attract a buyer to come here. The 

 City of Glasgow, Scotland, consumed last 

 year more apples than we will produce for 

 export in the next five years. And just 

 think of the markets opening up in Western 

 Canada. No, no, the market will not be 

 glutted. I hope I have been able to pre- 

 sent some points in fruit growing that 

 will lead you to give this phase of agricul- 

 ture more attention. 



I do not say that we are getting all out 

 of our orchard tliat we could have got with 

 better care. I am forced to admit that I 

 have not at all times practised what I 

 preach, but I am fully persuaded that the 

 orchajd will give more returns for the time 

 and money expended than any department 

 of farming unless it is strawberries and 

 these could be grown between the trees. 



But growing good fruit is only one part 

 of the business, we must have a market for 

 the fruit. The old way of knocking the 



