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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



October, 191 1 



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 aANOiNG BASKETS 



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 STRAIGHT PANS 



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 Manufacturers 



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This furnace is built to keep 

 gas, dust and smoke out of 

 the house. 



^TT No matter how cosy your 

 ^ home, an odor of gas, how- 

 ever slight, is unpleasant and 

 sometimes dangerous. 

 The health of your whole house 

 demands a furnace that will give 

 pure warm air without gas or 

 dust. 

 Gas cannot escape from a 



THE FUSED JOINT 



In the " Hecla " the steel s Ides 

 of the radiator are fused by our 

 patented process to the cast 

 iron plates at the top and 

 bottom. This i)rocess welds 

 the steel and iron into one 

 piece, making an inseparable 

 joint— ono that cannot spread 

 with the beat, and one that has 

 proven perfectly gas and dust 

 proof, even after years of 

 service. 



"Hecla" Furnace. Every place 

 where experience has shown 

 that gas might otherwise find 

 an opening has been made 

 absolutely tight by our Patent 

 Fused Joint. 



The constant expansion and 

 contraction of the steel and iron 

 parts cannot break this joint. 



"Hecla 

 Furnace 



^TT The " Hecla " has other safe- 

 j| guards against gas. The cast 

 Iron Combustion Chamber will not 

 burn through and allow fumes from 

 the fire to pass into the house. 

 The air }et* in the door assure 

 proper burning of any surplus gas. 

 The Automatic Gaa Dan\p«r 

 prevents danger from gas puffs. 

 There is a special dust flue to carry 

 the ash dus' up the chimney. 



The "Hecla " Saves One 

 Ton of Coal in Seven 



How steel ribs add- 

 ed to the " Hecla " 

 Fire Pot make this 

 saving is told in our 

 booklet " Comfort 

 & Health." 



GETTHIS 

 BOOKLET 



It tells how to get 

 heat for a minimum 

 cost. 



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CLAR.E BROS. & CO., LIMITED, 



PRE5TON, Ont. 



PLANS 



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estimates lorliealing It. * ■■■»*-J*J 



according to the brand. The day of putting 

 large apples on top, and small ones in the 

 centre of the barrel, is past, and shippers 

 who want to make money in the apple busi- 

 ness should pack and grade apples honestly. 



"Private sale is coming more into voguo 

 with lnyers in England and Scotland. We 

 are the only private sale house in Glasgow. 

 The English buyers who attend here every 

 week during the apple season prefer to see 

 the top and bottom of the barrels, so that 

 they will not buy 'a pig in a poke,' as apples 

 bought at auction very often turn out. 



"We are handling a large quantity of 

 apples this year from Australia, which, of 

 course, come in boxes. Only the large sized 

 apples have a ready sale. 



"The applet we handled from Ontario last 

 year gave cause for very few complaints, 

 and if packers and shippers would be care- 

 ful in huying and packing, it would be a 

 great pleasure handling apples compared to 

 what it has been in past years." 



A Western Buyer's Views 



The Regina (Saskatchewan) Trading Co., 

 Limited, which handles onsiderable quanti- 

 ties of United States, British Columbia and 

 Ontario fruit, has written The Canadian 

 Horticulturist as follows : "The pack of 

 Washington fruit is far superior in many 

 instances to British Columbia fruit. The 

 early pack of peaches from British Columbia 

 are often short in weight, the ca.ses not be- 

 ing filled to their full capacity. Custom- 

 ers, therefore, are dissatisfied, and in some 

 cases we have to fill the cases at our own 

 expense. We would suggest that the cases 

 should be either made smaller or the present 

 sized cases filled. Plums in four basket 

 crates, in the early season, are also lacking 

 in this particular. We never have this 

 trouhle with fruit from Washington. The 

 shape of the Washington fruit last year was 

 much better than that from British Colum- 

 bia, and the weight of the cases was always 

 heavier, in some instances (peaches in par- 

 ticular) five pounds a case. The best way 

 to ship plums, is in four ba.sket crates. 



"Boxes are preferable to barrels for 

 apples for easy shipping and quick sale, and 

 they give our customers a greater variety of 

 apples for the same outlay, or practically 

 so. A customer can get three varieties of 

 apples in boxes, while they must take all 

 one kind by the barrel, for the same quan- 

 tity. We would suggest a uniform weight 

 of about fifty to the box. 



"Washington anples are better packed 

 than most of the British Columbia stock. If 

 all British Columbia fruit was shipped and 

 packed as was the fruit at the exhibitions 

 last year, it woitld be second to none in this 

 country, or in the States, but there is no use 

 having good fruit poorly packed, for the 

 good packing of fruit does as much towards 

 soiling it as the fruit itself. 



"We receive some very poor samples of 

 apples from Ontario in barrels, especially 

 No. 2. This, to a great extent, would be 

 avoided by following the box system, as we 

 can open a box on every side if necessary, 

 and see the quality of fruit we are buying 

 and selling. We do not mean to say that 

 wo do not receive good anples from Ontario, 

 as Spy's, Greenings, Russets and other 

 kinds are second to none, but we would sug- 

 gest that all grades should be up to the full 

 standard. 



"Ontario plums and peaches are in great 

 demand, but we very seldom receive shin- 

 ments that are in Al condition, and usually 

 they are high in price compared with the 

 Briti.sh Columbia and Washington fruit. 



"We have a great demand for small 

 fruita, such as raspberries, strawberries, 



