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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



May, 191 1 



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PARKE & PARKE HAMILTON 



FOR SALE AND WANTED 



Advertisements in this department in- 

 serted at rate of two cents a word tor each 

 Insertion, each flgrure, sign or single letter 

 to count as one word, minimun cost, 25 

 cents, strictly cash in advance. 



READ BEZZOS* Famous Prize Aster advertise- 

 ment on page 125. 



HARDWOOD ASHES— Best Fertilizer in uae.— 

 George Stevens, Peterborough, Ont. 



WANTED — Persona to grow mushrooms for us 

 in waste space in gardens, ynrds, sheds or 

 cellars, $15 to $30 per week. Send for illus- 

 trated booklet and lull particulars.— Montreal 

 Supply Oo'y, Montreal. 



FARMS FOR SALE 



FRUIT FARMS sold and exchanged. List with 

 us for quick sale. See us if you are thinking 

 of buying a fruit farm. — P. J. Watson & Co., 

 1275 Queen Street W.. Toronto, Ont. 



NIAGARA DISTRICT FRUIT FARMS.-Before 



buying, it will pay you to consult me. 1 make 

 a specialty of fruit and grain farms.— Melvin 

 Gayman St. Catharines. 



H. W. DAWSON— Ninety Oolborne St., Toronto. 



A GOOD FARM— Hundred acres. County of 

 Kent, brick house, two barns, cheap at thirty- 

 five hundred. 



NINETY ACRES COUNTY HALTON— Twenty 

 miles from Toronto. House, bank barn, 

 orchard, seven thousand five hundred. 



UP TO DATE FARM— Hundred axjres. County of 

 Peel, Seven Thousand. 



IF GOING TO ALBERTA, Saskatchewan or 

 Manitoba I have farms both improved and 

 unimproved. It will pay you to see me. 



FRUIT, STOCK, GRAIN or Dairy Farms to suit 

 you in Old Ontario. Consult me. 



H. W. DAWSON. Ninety Colborne Street, phone 

 Main 6990; nights or hoUdays, 272 Wright 

 Avenue, phone Park 527. 



SALMON ARM, Shuswap Lake, B.C. has the 

 flnest fruit and dairy land in B.C. No irriga- 

 tion necessary mild winters, moderate sum- 

 mers, no blizzards, or high winds; delightful 

 climate; enormous yields of fruit, vegetables 

 aJid hay; good fishing; fine boating amidst the 

 most beautiful scenery, and the Salmon Arm 

 fruit hag ralized 25 cents per box more than 

 other fruit in B.C. Prices of land moderate, 

 and terms to suit. Apply to F. 0. Haydock, 

 Salmon Arm, B.O. 



BRITISH COLUMBIA fruit growing. Send one 

 dollar for two hundred page beautifully illus- 

 trated cloth bound book, entitled "Fruit £anch- 

 ing in British Columbia," written by T. J. 

 Bealby, a competent and well known authority 

 on the subject. British Columbia Fruit. Mol- 

 son's Bank Bldgs., Suite 1 Vancouver, B.C. 



IF YOU WOULD LIKE to purchase a site for 

 a home and fruit farm on good, suitable soil 

 situated in the most favorable and dependable 

 climate in Canada, get Louth.Clinton Peach 

 Area free information and ground floor prices 

 for properties in the coming locality for most 

 profitable fruit growing. Don't miss present 

 bargains — forty thousand mansion and farm 

 for only thirty thousand, a fifty acres for ten 

 thousand; others large and small. Enquire 

 about them. State what you want. W. H. 

 Brand, Jordan Station. Ont. 



YOU CAN TALK to the members of 10,000 homes 

 for a few cents by placing your advertise- 

 meot in this column. If you have anything 

 to sell, or want to sell or buy a fruit farm 

 try it. It will pay you. 



Leasing Orchards 



Some idea of the extent of the opora- 

 tions of the oompany that is leasing or- 

 chards throughout Ontario and part of 

 Quebec may bo gained from the fact that 

 already it has 14,000 trees, representing 

 about 4,500 a^ires of orchard, under lease. 

 Upwards of 1,000 acres of additional land 

 is being purchased outright. Most of the 

 orchards have been leased for periods of 

 ten years. The majority cf them are lo- 

 cated in the counties of Prince Edward, 

 Grey and Huron, although oiierations are 

 being conducted in some eighteen counties 

 all told. Interests have been secured also 

 in two of the largest orchards in the 

 province cf Quebec. Mr. 1. F. Metcalf, 

 formerly the district representative of the 

 Department of Agriculture at Collingwood, 

 is in charge of the operations- The com- 

 pany has appointed representatives in the 

 different districts. Mr. J. E. Anderson, of 

 Melville, being its representative in the 

 county of Prince Edward. Mr. Anderson 

 has at work under his direction several 

 parties of three cr four men, each in charge 

 of a foreman. These parties reijort, both 

 to Mr. Anderson and to the head office in 

 Toronto. They have charge of the prun- 

 ing and spraying operations in the or- 

 chards as well as of all of the work re- 

 quired to maintain the crcnards in a good 

 thrifty condition. 



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Methods oi Packing Compared 



White & Co., Commiition Merckanti, Toreato, Ont. 



It is difficult to make a comparison of the 

 methods of packing Canadian and Cali- 

 fornia fruits, as the existing conditions 

 are very different. 



Our Canadian fruit is intended mostly 

 for immediate consumption, and the pack- 

 ages used are suitable for the purpose in- 

 tended, they not being called upon to stand 

 any long distance or delayed shipping. 



A great improvement has taken place in 

 the packing of Canadian fruits during the 

 past year or two. Shippers have become 

 aware that the public are willing to pay 

 fcr a well packed package of fruit, so that 

 aside from the moral aspect of the ease, 

 it is financially profitable. 



With the California fruit a great deal 

 more trouble has to be taken to ensure uni- 

 form and proper packages, and proper load- 

 ing of cars as the fruit is shipped from 

 5,000 to 8,000 miles. Nevertheless it in- 

 variably opens up at its destination in 

 perfect condition. The shippers are exact- 

 ly informed as to the carrying qualities 

 of the different varieties, and they in turn 

 inform the pickers as to the exact stage 

 of ripeness at which the fruit must be taken 

 from the trees. Furthermore, the cars are 

 iced thoroughly in transit and kept in 

 sound condition. 



We are not noticing so much waste this 

 season in California fruit as we have in 

 previous years, owing to the fact that the 

 United States Government has established 

 pre-cooling stations at most of the large 

 shipping points, i.e., they have a large re- 

 frigerator shed into whch the cars are run 

 after loading, and all the vegetable heat is 

 extracted from the fruit inside each of the 

 cars. The temperature is brought down 

 to about 40 degrees, and the ice bunkers 

 are filled. Cars prepared in this way do 

 not require continual icing in transit. The 

 result of this test is that such stations are 

 being established as fast as the apparatus 

 can be installed in the various sections. 



While this system would be of no use to 

 Ontario shippers using Ontario markets, it 

 would be of vast benefit to them in ship- 

 ping to the northwest or to the far east. 



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This is the rose which Mr. W. G. 

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