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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



January, 1913 



TKis is the Book ttiat will sKowyou 

 how you can have a 



BEAUTIFUL OLD 

 ENGLISH GARDEN 



THE OLD ENGLISH 



GARDEN owes much of its 

 charm to the beauty of its simple 

 herbaceous plants. 



KELWAY'S COLOUR 

 BORDERS of Paeonies, 

 Delphiniums, Pyrethrums, Gail- 

 lardias and the like will enable 

 you to reproduce this picturesque 

 effect under almost all conditions 

 of soil and climate. Borders are 

 planned to fill any space, and 

 on receipt of dimensions, care- 

 fully selected plants are sent 

 beautifully packed, labelled and 

 numbered in order for planting. 



The cost is $6.00 for every 

 1 square yards. 



Full particulars and illustrations are given in 

 the Kelway Manual of Horticulture mailed 

 free on application to 



KELWAY & SON 



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The Canadian Horticulturist, 

 Peterboro, Canada. 



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from Ontario nurserymen, depending on 

 local inspection and fumigation, and we 

 find that criminal negligence and careless- 

 ness have been the result. For instance, a 

 Nova Scotia buyei in a large Ontario yard 

 selecting trees, heard orders Riven by the 

 manager to fumigate a lot of stock in a 

 "box car!' 



Of some one hundred and fifty thousand 

 trees from Ontario nurseries reciived here 

 this spring about twenty-five per cent, had 

 scale on them— some liberally encrusted. 

 To be sure most of the scale was dead, but 

 we do not propose to pay for any more 

 apple trees from Ontario or anywhere else 

 with scale on them, dead or alive. The 

 "blessing" will have to be disguised more 

 carefullv in the future before it will pass 

 current' here. The "three large nurseries 

 that furnished ninety-eight per cent, of the 

 stock planted in Nova Scotia," must get 

 busy and clean up the stuff before any more 

 of it comes this way. We want the trees, 

 and are willing to pay the pnce, but we do 

 not want any "blessings" thrown in. While 

 they are cleaning up we will mark time and 

 take stock, incidentally doing a little in the 

 nursery business on our own account. 



Early in 1912, while pursuing Brown Tail 

 Moth Mr. Saunders found live San Jose 

 Scale' on apple trees brought from Ontario 

 in 1911. One blessing— not in disguise— we 

 have in Nova Scotia is a live Secretary ot 

 Agriculture. There was something doing 

 in horticultural lines almost immediately. 

 Secretary Gumming soon had a good statt 

 at work running down the "ees planted in 

 1911 The inspectors soon found that lyiu 

 plantings were also infested, and 1912 plant- 

 ings were "lousy." 



As fast as competent men could be ob- 

 tained they were put into the field and 

 spent the summer in hard work. The net 

 results are eight hundred and fifty trees 

 found infested with live scale torn out and 

 burned root and branch. Mr. Saunders, 

 who has had charge of the field operations, 

 is sanguine that in two or three years the 

 scale can be exterminated, and every fruit 

 grower is willing and anxious to give him 

 a chance to try. 



The Provincial Government, on petition 

 of the Fruit Growers' Association, took 

 power last session to make regulations by 

 Order in Council, to control the San Jose 

 Scale and other insect pests. 



The Order in Council, as promulgated 

 on October 25th, 1912, provides that all 

 nursery stock coming into the Province 

 shall pass through either Middleton or 

 Truro as ports of entry, and no imported 

 nursery stock will be delivered to any im- 

 norter or consignee within the Province of 

 Nova Scotia unless the same is accompan- 

 ied by a certificate signed by the Provincial 

 Entomologist or other authorized Govern- 

 ment officer, that the nursery or other prem- 

 ises on which the same was grown was in- 

 spected between the fifteenth day of June 

 and the fifteenth day of September next pr^ 

 ceding the shipment thereof, and that said 

 nursefv or other premises were found to be 

 .ipparently free from Sam Jose Scale. 



The Regulations as promulgated, are 

 drastic and will mean prohibition to trees 

 from Ontario during the coming season at 

 least. 



I appreciate The Canadian Horticulturist 

 very much. Your efforts to provide practi- 

 cal information for the fruit grower. K^ar- 

 dener and florist entitle you to the increas- 

 ing patronage you are receiving."— R. El- 

 liott, Brantford, Ont. 



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