July, 191 1 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



17. 



The Better Care of Orchards 



A marked feature of the apple industry 

 particularly in Ontario this year will be 

 the number of orchards that are being 

 worked on rentil. A large amount of Eng- 

 lish capital has been invested through two 

 or three companies in this enterprise. In 

 addition to this, many local apple dealers 

 have changed their methods, and instead 

 of buying the fruit in the orchard as in 

 former years, they have proceeded to rent 

 the orchards. This has been done on so 

 large a scale that it cannot fail to ma- 

 terially affect the ouantity and quality of 

 apple.5 produced in Ontario orchards. Near- 

 ly all these rented orchards will be thor- 

 oughly sprayed and many of them have been 

 pruned. In most cases there is a stipula- 

 tion for cultivation of the ground as well. 



It is safe to say, therefore, that there 

 will be several thousand trees this year re- 

 ceiving cultivation, pruning and spraying 

 that did not receive treatment in former 

 years. The immediate effect of this good 

 treatment will be to increase the crop ma- 

 terially the first year. In estimating the 

 apple crop of Ontario for this season, 

 therefore, liberal allowance will have to be 

 made, over and above the usual estimates, 

 for the increased quantity and quality of 

 the apple crop as the result of this feature. 



i CO0PBR.\TIVB ASSOCIATIONS 



Another important feature is the forma- 

 tion of a large number of new co-operative 

 a.=sociations ; in all probability the number 

 will be double that of last year. Many of 

 these of course, are small and may not do 

 effective work the first year. The ten- 

 dency, however, is towards a better quality 

 of fruit, and a larger quantity of it from 

 the same number of trees. 



It would be an easy matter, by only ordi- 

 nary good care, to double the merchantable 

 quantity of Ontario apples. This co-oper- 

 ative movement is not confined to Ontario. 

 The development in Nova Scotia is even 

 more noticeable, and it is not at all im- 

 probable that the larger portion of the crop 

 will be handled co-operatively there, if not 

 this year, in the very near future. A 



large increase in the number of associations 

 is also noted from British Columbia. — 

 Biilletin of The Dominion Fruit Division. 



The Cold Storage of Apples* 



J. A. Roddick, Cold Storafe Cemmii(oner, Ottawa 



Cold storage may be applied to the apple 

 industry in two or three ways : In the first 

 place it is useful for the cooling of the early 

 varieties for immediate shipment. Then 

 it is also useful for the preservation of the 

 later or winter varieties which may be 

 kept for several months ; and it has a fur- 

 ther use in extending the season for certain 

 special varieties. The earliest varieties are 

 not wanted for long keeping; it is not ad- 

 visable to try to keep them. 



It is inadvisable to try to keep the ear- 

 liest varieties into the season for other 

 later and superior varieties. Then it is 

 important to get the apples out promptly 

 to secure the early market. These early 

 apples ripen rapidly ; that is the reason 

 they are early apples, because their life 

 processes are short and proceed much more 

 rapidly than in the later varieties. That 

 means that the earlv variety ripens as much 

 in a day as some of the later varieties will 

 in a week or even in a fortnight, and per- 

 haps even more than that. A day or even 

 a few hours at high temperature makes a 

 great difference. 



It is of the very greatest advantage to 

 be able to chill these early apples before 

 .shipment. They will carry very much bet- 

 ter, because being firmer and harder when 

 chilled they do not bruise so readily, and 

 they will reach the consumer in much bet- 

 ter condition and with less waste. That is 

 the one way in which we need cold storage 

 for apples of this class. 



BOXES vs. n.\RRELS IN COLD STORAGE 



The box or the package is of some im- 

 portance in this connection, because apples 

 packed in boxes may be cooled more quickly 

 than if they are put in barrels. If you pack 

 apples in barrels during warm weather 

 when the ripening process is proceeding 



• Extract from evidence given before the House of 

 Commons Committee on Agriculture. 



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Better than Paris Green because it will never burn the leavea and 

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It never fails to kill Potato Bugs, Cabbage Worms, Codling Moths and 

 other leaf eating insects. It is easy to spray and does not settle In the 

 tank like Paris Green. 



Simply mix "VANGO" LEAD ARSENATE with water, four pounds 



to forty gallons of water. "VANCO" LEAD ARSENATE contains IS 



per cent to 16 per cent Arsenic Oxide, one of the most effective poisons 



for leaf eating insects. "VANCO" LEAD ARSENATE is made in Canada. 



There is no duty to pay on It. You get the best 



quality at lowest prices. 



Write for our Price List and Book on Spraying. 



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PAEONIES 



40 Varieties. Very early to very late. 



Beautiful colours. Delicious fragrance. 



Elegance of form. 



Plant in September 



Fall Planting List to be published on IstAuguat 

 will contain descriptions of 40 varieties. It will 

 be sent to all names on our mailing list and to 

 all others interested, on receipt ol name and 

 address. 



JOHN CAVERS 



Esiabllshed 1890 



Long DIstaace Telephoae M 3102 



H. J. ASH 



(Member Toronto Board of Trade) 



WHOLESALE 

 FRUIT MERCHANT 



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