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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



September, 191 1 



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SPECIAL NO. 26 



Sent to your Kxprrns Offit-e 

 carefully packci!. for $5.00 



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8 BEAUTIFUL HOUSE PLANTS 



AND 



100 Choice Win er Flowering Bulbs 

 All for $5.00 



We stake our reputation on thl« Special 

 . Bargain. Tile mo«t careful buyer cannot 

 select better quality or get more for the 

 . money. The plants are all thrifty and 

 . healthy ; of full blooming gize. and such 

 ■ only as will do well in the ordinary home 

 atmosphere. The bulbs are those that 

 are sure to bloom and thrive and give de- 

 light to the inmates of the home all 

 through the long Canadiin winter. Send 

 us $5.00 and we will express to you as 

 follows: 



PLANTS 

 1 Choice Ostrich Plume Fern. 

 1 Pine Boston Fern. 

 1 Splendid Chinese Primrose. 

 1 Beautiful Cyclamen. 

 1 Rare Begonia. 

 1 Fine Cinerari-a. 

 1 Strong Asparagus Fern. 



1 Large Kentia Palm. 



Our regular selling price of these plants 

 will average 50c e^ch. and some of them 

 we retail at One Dollar each. 



BULBS 



12 Early Narcissus Paper White. 



12 Early Roman Hyacinths. 



12 Freesia Mammoth size. 



(The above are for early Xmas bloom) 



12 Dutch Hyacinths (all colors). 



12 Choice Single Tulips (all colors). 



12 Superb Double Tulips (all colors). 



12 Double Daffodils a choice assortment. 



12 Single Daffodils a choice assortment. 



2 Chinese Sacred Lillies. 



2 Bermud.i Easter Lillies. 



Cultural directions for these Plants and 

 Bulbs are found in our Catalog, which 

 we mail free. 



The above bulbs will give continuous 

 bloom until Easter. Catalogue prices of 

 the«e bulbs is $4 00. 



This Order is Not Good after December 

 15 th. 



THE HAY FLORAL AND SEED CO., 



Seedmen and Florists 

 BROCKVILLE - - - ONT. 



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You can depend upon it foi positive re- 

 sults without le^i of failure or dissatisfact- 

 ion. 



$2.50 per Gallon — $1.00 per Quart 



, FWItiiE 



An infalliable remedy for mildew, car- 

 nation rust and other fungus diseases. 

 $2.50 per Gallon — 75c per Quart 

 We will lead with reciprocity by placing 

 our products on the Canadian market at 

 the same prices as sold in the United States. 

 For Sale By 



Dupuy SI Ferguson 



MONTREAL 

 Minnfsctared by APHINE MANUFACTURING 

 CO., Maaiio", N. J., U. S. A. 



We will be gl.ad to negotiate with responsible firms 

 ^ip^Canada to handle our products. 



have been growing many Japanese plums 

 and whether thev have nny reason to think 

 they are in any way blaraahle for Little 

 Peach. 



The whole di-strict between Boamsville 

 and Hamilton along the line of the H. G. 

 & B. trolley is being devoted to fruit grow- 

 ing, but not in largo frnit farms as for- 

 merly. The one hundred-acre farms are be- 

 ing cut up into ten and fifteon-acrc plots 

 and being better cultivated and letter 

 nriinod and sprayed, and thus several fam- 

 ilies are bettor sujmorted than the one origi- 

 nal owner, who had more than he could cul- 

 tivate. 



The Benefits of Cold Storage 



J. A. Raddack, Cold Storsgc Csmmittioser, Ottawa 



If I were asked why I think cold storage 

 is useful in handling late fall or wint<'r 

 varieties of apples, I would put the ca.se 

 something like this: A large percentage of 

 all apples become more or less wasty and 

 over-ri'ie before they reach the consumer. 

 Now. that is riartlv the result of injuries 

 wliich the apples receive in the picking and 

 handling, and it is partly because they are 

 held for a few weeks at too high a tempera- 



tre. Even our latest varieties are expo.s- 

 fe ' to temperatures which are not sufficient- 

 ly low to check these life processes in time, 

 and in consequence a large percentage of 

 the anples become over-ripe and wasty be- 

 fore they reach the limit of their season — 

 the season that they may be expected to 

 be good in. 



Cold storage will not prevent all this 

 waste. There is as much room for improve- 

 ment in the handling of applas so as to pre- 

 vent bruises and sk-'n punctures of one 

 kind and another, as fhere is in the appli- 

 cation of cold storagft If you have your 

 apples perfect, sound in the skin, with no 

 bruises and no punctums of any kind so 

 that the moulds cannot find entrance, win- 

 ter varieties will keep a long time even 

 without cold storage; but with the aid of 

 cold storage you can ext-nd their season, 

 and those whicli are not quite so perfect 

 will be p*-eserved in better condition. 



Apples keep very much better some sea- 

 sons than they do in others. I am speak- 

 ing of the winter varieties. In 1909 it was 

 found that the Northern Spy kept very 

 badly, it turned out badly early in the 

 season. There was reason for that, and I 

 think it was simply this : that at the time 

 of harvesting and after the apples were 

 packed, while they were still in tho barrels 

 Iving round, the weather was unusually 

 warm, and that meant of course that there 

 was a very rapid deterioration. Now, if 

 these apples oould have been chilled, and 

 without any delav, at the time they were 

 harvested, it would hive meant a consider- 

 able saving to the apple growers and deal- 

 ers, many of whom suffered great lasses in 

 that year, and the warm weather would 

 have been an advantage rather than a 

 detriment. 



It is not easy for t^e individual farmer 

 to provide himself with a good cold storage 

 warehouse, but it is possible for the indi- 

 vidual fruit grower to have small ice stor- 

 aaes. If I were a fruit grower or was 

 handling apple=i or tender fruits, 1 should 

 certainly provide a plice of that kind. Of 

 course I think the ideal way would be to 

 have these apples removed at once from 

 the orchards to the cold storage ware- 

 hotises. In the State of New York — where 

 they need cold storage a little more than 

 we do because their season is somewhat 

 earlier in som-^ districts — ilong the Falls 

 Branch of the New York Central Railroad 



Extract from evidence given before the House of 

 Commons Committeo on agriculture. 



Daisy Apple 

 Press 



Used by all leadiuK 

 appb- packers in t^an- 

 adii, Inited States and 

 Knirland. 



Write for prices and 

 complete information 



to 



J. J. ROBLIN & SON 



Maiiufacturer.s 



Brighton, Ont. 



Canada 



You can cultivate be- 

 tween berry bushes when 

 the Bissell Oarden Disc 

 Harrow is closed up, or 

 under fruit trees with - - 



wings added. Adjustable— for sinirle horse, 

 or light two horse harrow. Low or high 

 seat. Reversible— In-Throw to Out Throw. 

 Remember, no harrow is genuine without 

 Bissell name olamped on it. Ask local deal- 

 er ab'jiu ihe Bissell or write I>ept N for 

 Catalog. 



T. E. Bissell Co. Ltd., Elora, Ont. 



The Bissell 



GARDEN MARROW 



See advertisement of Bissell Orchard 

 Disc, page xiv. 



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