May, 191 1 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



129 



Gulf Islands B. C. 



W. J. Hamilton, Sooth Salt Spring, B. C. 



There are two horticultural lines whicti 

 should prove great money makers in our 

 district of British Columbia. (Gulf Islands). 

 The first is the growing cf hardy bulbs. 



For purely ornamental, not commercial 

 purposes, I have round my hotse at least 

 50,000 bulbs of common hardy varieties, 

 such as snowdrop, scilla, chionondoxa, cro- 

 cus, hyacinth, daffodil and narcissus, tulip, 

 gladiolus, etc., whilst anemone, iris, lilies 

 of sorts, lily cf the valley and other quasi- 

 bulbous plants grow like weeds. All these 

 multiply most freely with little care, large 

 numbers growing through the grass where 

 they look their best. We have much light 

 well drained sandy loam, and I believe that 

 anyone who gave to this line the care and 

 att-ention it requires could make this busi- 

 ness mcst remunerative. 



The other line, which as the profits in it 

 are long delayed, might well be combined 

 with bulb culture is the growing of holly 

 berries for the Christmas market. Buyers 

 from the American side come to Victoria 

 every year and clean up what holly they can 

 get, paying high and yearly increasing 

 prices for it. It is true it takes many 

 years for holly to bear profitably, but might 

 not shelter belts of it be planted round the 

 bulb fields to protect the bulbs from the sea 

 breezes P The holly trees would thus serve 

 a useful purpose whilst they were growing 

 to a bearing age. 





Montreal 



E. H. Wartman, Dominion Frait Inspector 



During my inspection season in Ontario 

 from December 5th to March 18th, princi- 

 pally in county of Notrthumberland, al- 

 though the quantitv of apples .stored was 

 small compared with other years, yet ship- 

 pers packed slowly, lengthening out season. 

 Good, well packed apples brought long 

 prices all through the season. One thing 

 that was quite evident in most of the pack- 

 ing houses visited were that apples of the 

 most inferior quality were stored. Even 

 (juite a percentage of windfalls were put in 

 storage, and these conditions, of course, 

 made a large per centage in shrinkage. 



It appears to me that in March, when 

 temperatures in oellai's cannot be controll- 

 ed and apples rotting fast, the air is thor- 

 ouglily polluted in the barrels to the detri- 

 ment of all, and when re])acked at a tem- 

 poraturo of 40 degrees F. we oould not 

 look for good results for future keeping. 

 ^.Choice apples of winter varieti<« packed in 

 "ctol)er and November and kept at a tem- 

 perature of 31 to 33 degrees F. will not 

 refiuire repacking in February and March, 

 but in some cases may require a cushion 

 jiad to replace natural shrinkage. In my 

 ox]>erience I have found only one per cent, 

 of apples handhxl as above rotten in April. 

 Prices of apples being very high, the 

 orange and l)anana trade is booming- 

 Think of $1.25 being asked me for a 11 

 quart basket of poor Spy apples, or over 

 $12 per barrel. In 1886' I bought far bet- 

 ter Spy apples for 50c. per barrel by taking 

 a two hundred and fifty barrel lot I's and 

 2's, It seems to be a very poor year for 

 our most coveted apple, the Spy. The 

 Stark seemed to be generally good when 

 the Spy failed. 



The Ben Davis apple eeems to be a favor- 

 ite, even to the reptile kingdom. A good 

 size<3 specimen of this variety was given to 

 me, which a garter snake cf about fifteen 

 inches in length had hollowed out and 

 curled inside the cavity and died there. 

 Till! snake had been in some way hoad(H] 

 up in a barrel in the orchard and after 



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