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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



Floral Edition 



Wrapped Fruit 



Brings 



Better Prices 



A well packed box of apples, attrac- 

 tively wrapped, appeals strongly to the 

 city dweller who has not the facilities for 

 keeping a barrel. He is willing to pay a 

 better price for them because he knows 

 they are carefully graded and selected and 

 will keep much longer. 



The fruit grower who wants the highest 

 prices will wrap his fruit with 



"Safet/* Fruit Wraps 



8x 9 17c. per ream of 500 sheets 



10x10 20c 



12x12 30c 



20x30 $1.20 



24x36 $1.80 



EKscounts in quantities. 



Other supplies required by Fruit Growers 

 carried in stock at Hamilton. Prices on 

 application. 



Buntin, Gillies & Co. 



Limited 



67-71 John St. South 



HAMILTON CANADA 



j Crops and Markets j 



On Toronto Market 



WITH the exception of a week during the 

 middle of the month and odd days now 

 and then, which were quite brisk, busi- 

 ness on the Toronto commission market during 

 July was rather slow, some days being almost 

 dead. In comparison with other lines of trade 

 throughout the city, however, the fruit and 

 vegetable business, as one of the commission 

 firms pointed out to Tug Canadian Horti- 

 culturist, was good. Much unemployment and 

 a lower buying power on the part of most of the 

 employed have curtailed the demand for fruits 

 and vegetables other than the actual necessities. 

 Fancy fruits for eating out of hand or as table 

 desserts seem to be considered this summer as 

 luxuries more than usual. Retailers and huck- 

 sters have been cautious in handling fruit in 

 large quantities' and prices generally have suf- 

 fered accordingly. 



Cherries, which slumped badly at the end of 

 June, did not recover much until after the 

 middle of the month. While some were wasty 

 at times, quality and condition was not always 

 responsible for the low to medium prices. The 

 buyers simply would not handle them, excepting 

 at the low figures. After the middle of the month, 

 with sweets about done and sours well on in 

 season, prices picked up spasmodically. At the 

 end of the month, Morellos were selling at $1 to 

 $1.50 in elevens. 



The peaches during July were mostly of white- 

 fleshed varieties and not much wanted, although 

 occasionally they brought fair prices; on Aug. 1, 

 some extra fancy whites brought $1.75 to $2 in 

 elevens. Yellow peaches commenced to arrive 

 during the last week of July and sold around 

 75 cents in sixes and $1.25 to $1.50 in elevens. 



A feature of this market is the fact that most 

 buyers prefer to handle peaches in sixes than in 

 elevens. Other factors being equal, sixes usually 

 are snapped up first. The same applies, during 

 the first part of season for each fruit, of most 

 other kinds, especiallv cherries. 



The first pears arrived on July 18, but small 

 and useless. Not until the end of the month 

 were the pears of good enough quality to com- 

 mand attention. Early plums were quite heavy 

 from middle to end of month and sold low. The 

 market was waiting for the better plums of 

 August. Apples in baskets mostly were poor in 

 variety and quality. Good apples sold readily. 



Raspberries of good quality and condition 

 sold well all through the month. Blackcaps were 

 in poor demand, and always brought 5 cents or 

 more less than the reds. Blackberries (Lawtons 

 and Kittatinnys) came in first about July 20 and 

 sold at 25 cents, and prices ranged between 18 

 and 25 cents to end of month. Good currants 

 of all kinds and gooseberries constantly were in 



strong demand and sold at satisfactory prices. 



The vegetable market in general was slow. 



While lots of stuff was moved, onlv o^casi'mallv 



PEDLAR'S 



"PERFECT" 



TREE PROTECTORS 



Protect Your 

 Young Fruit Trees 



from damage by mice in 

 early spring 



Mice will "girdle" any fruit tree up to six 

 inches in diameter, in the early spring. When 

 the snow at the base of the trees melts the 

 hungry rodents gnaw the tender bark dose to 

 the ground. Thousands of valuable young 

 trees are injured in this way every vear, in- 

 volvhig an enormous loss to orchardists. 

 But you can easily circiiravent the mict by 

 using Pedlar's ' Perfect" Tree Protectors. 

 They are made from strips of galvanized metal 

 lath, with a raeshonly three-eighthsof an inch 

 — too smal. for the smallest mouse to squeeze 

 through. 

 Supplied in buadfes of 25. Write for prices. 



THE PEDLAR PEOPLE LIMITED 



EstabUsbed 1361 



EXECUTIVE OFFICES I OSHAWA. ONT. 



Factories! Osbawa, Oot.r and Montreal, Que. 



Branches t — Montreal. Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton* 



Winnipeg. Calgary. Vancouver 



We Solicit Your 

 Consignment 



Send for 

 Shipping Stamp 



Fruit and Vegetables Solicited 



WE GET BEST PRICES 



OUR facilities enable us to realize top prices at all times for your fruit, veget- 

 ables or general produce Aside from our large connection on the Toronto 

 Market we have established branch warehouses, with competent men in 

 charge at Sudbury, North Bay, Coba t and Timmins. In time of congestion on the 

 loronto market we have a ready outlet through these branches. We never have to 

 sacrmce your interests. 



Branch Warehouses: 

 Sudbury, North Bay, 

 Cobalt and Timmins. 



Peters, Duncan Limited 



88 Front St. East, Toronto 



References: The Bank 

 of Nova Scotia, King 

 and Victoria Branch, 

 and Commercial Agen- 

 cies. 



