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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



July, 191 I 



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THE WESTERN FAIR 



LONDON CANADA 



SEPTEMBER 8th to 16th 



GOOD CASH PRIZES FOR 



FRUIT AND FLOWERS 



The interior of the Horticultural 

 Building all changed this year 



Special Railroad Rates for Exhi- 

 bitors and Visitors 



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Send for Prize Lists and Entry Forms to the Secretary 

 W. J. REID, President A. M. HUNT, Secretary 



Take a 



Kodak with you 



Make the most of every outing by taking pictures of the people and 

 places that you are interested in It will add to the joy of all the party at 

 the time and give the added pleasure of pictures that you and your friends 

 will always cherish. 



And it is all simpler than you think. Ther*s no dark-room required by the Kodak 

 system of photography, and every step has been made so easy that the mere beginner can 

 readily grasp every essential. 



You can do every part of the work yourself or, if you prefer, may simply "press the 

 button" and let some one else "do the rest. ' 



And picture-making is not expensive now-a-days. Kodaks from five dollars up and 

 Brownie Cameras (they work like Kodaks), at one to twelve dollars, offer a wide variety 

 from which to choose. The Kodak catalogue, free at the dealers or bv mail, tells all 

 about them. 



// it isn't an Eastman, it isn't a Kodak 



CANADIAN KODAK CO., LIMITED : TORONTO, CAN. 



sulphur one-ninth in April, practically n 

 oKg8 hatched though the ore ohiKters wert- 

 aLundant on thi.s block and it was badly in- 

 fested the previous year. The Bud Moth 

 and Leaf Roller are very common and do- 

 ing a lot of harm. 



Mr. R. P. Oorham, a graduate in Horti- 

 culture from MacDonaM CoIIpko, Queb<'<- 

 and a native of Kin^s Co., will conduct (ir 

 chard survey work in selected portions •i\ 

 the province during the .summer months. It 

 is planned to hold the Provincial Apple 

 Show again in St. John from November Ist 

 to 3rd. While last year's show was the first 

 of the kind held in the province and proved 

 a groat success, it is expected to be much 

 improved on this year. The prize money in 

 the box and barrel classes is being more 

 than trebled and the prospects for a good 

 apple crop, together with the exiwricnce 

 gained last vear. shotdd greatly improve the 

 qual'tv of the exhibits. 



A Bulletin on "The Establishment of Ap- 

 ple Orchards and Their Care un to the Tenth 

 Year" by A. G. Turner, the horticulturist, 

 has recently been issued by the Department 

 of Agriculture. 



Niagara District Notes 



The advance in land values in this dis- 

 trict still continues. A few years ago, when 

 Major Roberts paid $10,000 for twelve acres 

 of peach land near (irimsby, every one said 

 "What a high price!" But now such sales 

 are everyday occurrences, and some young 

 peach orchards are valued at $1,200 per 

 acre. Nor does a cherrv orchard command 

 less money, if planted with such varieties as 

 Tartarians or Windsors. The prices these 

 fruits bring seem to justify these values, 

 quite aside from the .shipping conveniences 

 and the beauty of location to which some 

 give the credit. 5Iy first shipment of cher- 

 ries, sold on June 13th at $1.75 per eleven 

 quart basket! They were Early Purples, 

 and were allowed to hang until fully ma- 

 tured and well rounded : and last season 

 Tartarims brought $1.50 and one lot of 

 AVindsors $1.90! These are, of course, the 

 gross sales, from which expenses of express 

 and sale charges must be deducted. 



T dn not remember such fine loads of all 

 kinds of cherries for thirty years. Every 

 tree carries all it can support, and Rich- 

 monds are already (June 19th) a mass of 

 red. And what is best of all, there is no 

 rot, espe<-ially on trees sprayed with lime- 

 sulphur. Of course the dry May is death 

 to fungus, and has been a great favor tf) 

 cherry growers. Nobody need pick his fruit 

 half green to save it. as sometimes, but can 

 let it hang till fidly ripe and then market 

 it at its best. 



Tomatoes are being grown verv exten- 

 sively in this district this year, in view of 

 the slight advancs> in price by our factor- 

 ies, from 2.5 cents to 30 cents per eleven 

 quart basket full, basket returned. — L.W. 



Montreal 



E. H. WartiBU, Dominion Fruit liup«ct«r 



We received our first strawberries from 

 Ontario on June 6. They were the Early 

 Michael variet.v, a very small variety. 

 Every fruit merchant seems to be looking 

 for size and dark color in berries. Why is 

 this the case? The merchant does not like 

 to hear the remarks of passers-by. "What 

 miserable little berries,' but would rather 

 hear them say, "What beautiful berries.' 

 vSize often makes a difference of five cent.^ 

 a box. 



Why people crating strawberries do not 

 go over every box and see that it is pro- 

 perly filled before shipping I cannot under- 

 stand. The berries in the boxes lianded in 

 by pickers to be crated are very loose, and 



