July, 1911 



PROVINCIAL NOTES 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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I^yj^PQJJ'p YOUR BULBS send with me; I import every year and get only the 



highest quality of spring flowering bulbs. Write for 



C. MORTIMER BEZZO Larticulars and prices. 

 Bulb Importer <• Berlin, Ontario 



Eastern Annapolis Valley 



Eunice Bacbanan 



The apple crop promises to be one of the 

 biggest ever seen in Nova Scotia. The 

 young fruits have set well and there were 

 no frosts to destroy or injure the blossoms. 

 The month of May was very dry, but a 

 heavy shower fell on June 1st and then 

 came a dry period until June 13th when 

 there was another heavy rain; till then 

 things were beginning to look serious. 



Small seeds have been very slow in ger- 

 minating, and those put in early have suf- 

 fered from the attacks of cutworms, which 

 are very plentiful. A ne.'t of the brown tail 

 "^oth containing caterpillars was found in 

 Waterville and sent to Truro College for 

 identification. 



Strawberries looked in fine condition unr 

 til the drought, even now there may be 

 more than expected. Frost is reported to 

 have damaged them in Yarmouth County. 



Plums do not seem as plentiful as other 

 fruits. Cherries, pears, blackberries, rasp- 

 berries and currants are loaded with fruit. 



In spite of the late spring, the warm 

 weather hurried the aople blo.s.soms out 

 about a week earlier than usual, so that 

 by June l.st there was hardly a blossom to 

 be seen. The lawns have a dried up, August 

 appearance, and the hay crop is almost a 

 failure. The power sprayers have proved 

 to be rapid and more economical than the 

 hand pumps, and probably will soon put the 

 old-fashioned spray rigs out of business. 

 Canker worms are in some orchards in 

 Waterville. 



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New Brunswick 



Apples promise a good crop. The trees 

 came through the winter well, bloomed heav- 

 ily, set a good proportion of the bloom and 

 have escaped any injurious frost. Many 

 new orchards were started this spring. 



As an instance of the development in ap- 

 ple growing that is coming, may be cited 

 the formation last winter of the St. John 

 Valley Fruit and Farm Land Company. 

 This company holds some twelve thousand 

 acres of fir.st-class apple land with a beauti- 

 ful frontage on the St. John River, at Bur- 

 ton, seventeen miles below Fredericton. 

 The company is developing a large orchard 

 on the unit system and planted two thous- 

 and trees this spring and proposes planting 

 itween five thousand and ten thousand 

 irees next year. The balance of the prop- 

 irty will probably be developed in ten, fif- 

 n and twenty-five acre lots, planted to 

 irchard and with suitable buildings erected, 

 reat progress has already been made and 

 le work of clearing land, making roads, 

 c, is going forward rapidly. The newly 

 t orchards are composed mainly of Fam- 

 luse, Mcintosh Red, Wealthy, Alexander or 

 olfe River, Duchess and Bethel. 

 More illustration orchards have been 

 lanted in the counties of Queens, West- 

 oreland. Kent and Northumberland. 

 Demonstration orchard work on trees of 

 learing age, after the manner conducted in 

 ntario, has been taken up in York, Sun- 

 •ury and Albert counties. Tent caterpillars 

 many sections have completely strippe<l 

 nsprayed orchards, but in the demonstra- 

 ion plots they were completely wiped out 

 by the limo sulphur 1-40 and lead arsenate 

 two pounds solution. In one plot of on<'fl 

 undred trees sprayed only onco with lime] 



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 in this country proves this state- 

 ment. A large percentage of this 

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Field experiments prove that 

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 are as good as twice that number 



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spread in a haphazard way. Hand spreading requires at least twenty loads 

 to cover an acre. With a manure spreader, eight loads will cover the same 

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Your problem of soil fertility is only half solved when you decide to get a 

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The method of transmitting power from the wheels to the beater is 

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 large in diameter and the teeth are long, square, and chisel pointed. By 

 using this style of tooth, the manure is thoroughly pulverized and is 

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 individual experi- 

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