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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



June, 191 1 



BEZZO'S FAMOUS PRIZE ASTERS 



Prize at New York State Fair, September, 1910 



VIok'fl Vio'ot Kiiii,', Mikftdo White, Mikiido (Kothesier) Pink, Vick's Karly DranchliiB, Kone and White, 

 20c par dozen, tl.OO per hnndred. 



Vink's Branching Pink, White, H08O. Lavender Sonii)le's Pink, Uoyal Purple. Daybreak and Purity, 

 truly the ariHt<)i:ral9 of the aster taniily: l.te per diz., 75c nor hundred; packed and labeled separately In wet 

 moB8. AU plants Kont by express and guaranteed to arrive in good condition. Kxprena prepaid on orders 

 over $2.00, Ucinit by money onler. 

 C. MORTIMER BEZZO, BERLIN, ONTARIO 



OF VANCOUVER, B.C. 



Will publish a Special Copyrighted 

 Article in the Issue of May 20th, on 



"The Timber Lands of British Columbia 

 from a Commercial Standpoint." 



To those interested in B.C. Timber a copy will be 

 sent on request, as long as the supply lasts 



The Commercial Revie^r 



543 Hastings Street, - VANCOUVER, B. C. 



Some History 



about Typewriters 



Modern and Ancient 



CHAPTER I 



-TYPEWRITER HISTORY is making fast. 

 ■»• Real action commenced 1 4 years ago — 

 with the Underwood. 



POR 20 years the typewriter has been evolving and 



finding its place in business. 

 ■yHE Underwood was the first present-day typewriter. It was 

 radical. It violated all old-time ideas about typewriter con- 

 struction. 



[N the face of sneers, jibes, ridicule, and opposition from other 



makers it gave the public the first writing in-sight typewriter. 



"pHE Public applauded---and bought. Naturally they preferred 



to see what they wrote as they wrote it. 

 J-JEKETOFOf^ typewriters had been built on the simplest plan 

 mechanically, but up-side-down with the writing out of sight. 

 It was time for something better. 



United Typewriter Co. 



Limited 



TORONTO 



Returns from one Crab Apple 

 Tree 



Miss Stewart, near Homer, Lincoln Co., 

 Ont., had one crab apple tree in her gar- 

 den which received no particular care, but 

 gave a net return in 1910 of $2.5.80. If 

 the real estate men who have acreage for 

 sale in Lincoln county would emulate the 

 methods of Oregon or British Columbia real 

 estate men, there would be a photograph 

 of thi.s tree, together with a photograph 

 of the leaded wagons tliat took the fruit 

 to the station, all duly certified to as be- 

 ing ju.st what could bo done on this par- 

 ticular property which was being offered 

 for sale. Great is the possibility of adver- 

 tising! 



Successful Market Gardener 



Mr. F. Williams, proprietor of the 

 Rideau Gardens, Ottawa, has a property of 

 forty acres in the suburbs of the city all 

 used as a market garden. He is a large 

 asparagus grower, having ten acres devot- 

 ed to this crop ; he has also five acres in 

 strawberries. His crop of cauliflower for 

 the past year consisted of between fcrty 

 and fifty thousand. He grows a large 



amount of celerv between 125.000 to 

 150.000 bunches, the larger quantity being 

 of the Golden self l)lanching variety, the 

 remainder being winter celery. Last win- 

 ter he stored almost his entire crop for 

 winter sale, and made good profit. He has 

 been known for forty years as a successful 

 melon rai'sr. He has one thousand sash 

 that is used in the production of Montreal 

 nutmeg melons and also raises a large 

 quantity of field melons. The above crops 

 along with earlv tomatoes and other var- 

 ieties of vegetables tend to keep his time 

 fully occunied during the growing season. 



Mr. Williams also has a large greenhouse 

 plant with storage and Itoiler pit in connec- 

 tion. There are two modern houses one 

 hundred and seventv-six feet bv thirty feet 

 each. Also one of the same length forty 

 feet wide, with sash roof. One of the best 

 houses is devoted to the growth of potted 

 plants. The other two being used exclu- 

 sively for the growing of vegetables. 

 Tomatoes are raised during the latter part 

 of the summer and the crop is sold im- 

 mediately following the finishing up of the 

 outdoor crop. .4fter the tomato crop is 

 over the houses are devoted to lettuce for 

 the remainder of the season. The total 

 crop of lettuce amounts to on© hundred 

 and fiftv thousand plants. Mr. Williams 

 gives his method of lettuce culture as 

 follows : 



LBTTtrCE GROWING 



I SOW the seeds in flats or in the benches, 

 and when the first true leaves appear prick 

 them out and transplant into rows two 

 and a half inches apart and one-half inch 

 apart in rows. As soon as they grow suffi- 

 ciently to make good sturdy plants, they 

 are transplanted int-o the permanent beds 

 six inches apart each way. I keep sowing 

 seed ever,v few days so that I shall have 

 plenty of seedling plants, so that if any- 

 thing should happen to one batch there 

 would be others ready. It is a mistake 

 man,v make net to have a sufficient number 

 of plants. So to be on the safe side sow; 

 plenty of seed. 



The soil should be a light sandy loam 

 of a coarse sharp nature, made as rich as 

 possible. I depend almost entirely on stabk 

 manure. Sometimes if plants are not, 

 making sufficient growth I use a littl 

 nitrate of soda, and after the first crofj 



