December, 1922 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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A POTATO weighing exactly a pound and 

 a half was produced the past season in the 

 back yard garden of Elmer Misener, Wel- 

 land, Ont. It was a Rural New Yorker. Who 

 in Ontario or east can beat that for weight of a 

 potato of any variety? 



What is claimed to be a world's record in 

 potato growing is reported from Ilkerton, Ont. 

 In the presence of a large numljcr of people, a 

 farmer named F. Peel, weighed potatoes totalling 

 Sli pounds si.x ovmces, all of which was produced 

 from one pound of seed. 



At a growers' meeting at Fonthill, early in 

 November, Frank Lowrey, of St. David's, said 

 that the Elberta peach, while good for long- 

 distance shipping, was the poorest yellow- 

 flcshed freestone peach grown, and the poorest 

 for canning purposes. He recommended St. 

 John, Lincoln, Fitzgerald and J. H. Hale. 



According to latest reports from the United 

 States, the apple crop over there generally has 

 moved slowly due to low prices. /'Commercial 

 orchards nearly everywhere produced well with 

 quality good. Some damage by freezing is re- 

 ported from New England. In the middle 

 west the agricultural crop is going mostly into 

 cider or being wasted. A large portion of the 

 commercial crop is going into storage. All 



available storage space is reported filled in the 

 northwestern states. 



According to a press despatch from Three 

 Rivers, Mich., dated Nov. 2i, $50,000 for a 

 single strawberry plant was paid that day by 

 Frank B. Beatty, president of the R. M. Kel- 

 logg Co. The price is the highest ever paid 

 for a strawberry plant, and the purchaser 

 believes that the plant will revolutionize the 

 strawberry industry. The variety is to be 

 known as "Rockhill," in honor of its originator, 

 Harlow Rockhill, of Conrad, Iowa. The plant 

 bears in early summer and repeats again in 

 late summer with continual bearing until frost 

 comes. 



Besides peaches. South Africa ships pears and 

 plums to England and lands them there in good' 

 condition. About Christinas last year, early 

 varieties of plums sold on the London market 

 in trays up to ;C3 per bushel. 



A carload of Concord grapes was shipped to 

 Vancouver, B.C., in October, by the Niagara 

 District Grape Growers, Ltd., St. Catharines. 

 It was said to be the first Ontario grape car to 

 reach Vancouver in 12 years. The fruit was 

 well iced in transit and arrived in excellent 

 condition. A Vancouver paper reported that 

 the grapes were far superior to Washington 

 Concords that were arriving about the same 

 time. There were from two to three pounds 

 more grapes in each basket than in the Wash- 

 ington package. The grapes sold mostly at 80 

 cents and the demand was keen. 



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