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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



January, Idl^ 



Wonderful Fall-Bearing 



Strawberries 



Fruit In f«U »lt flnt year uul In 

 •prtns and hLil of aecond year. 

 Big money-muterl 

 too plania aet In May yielded from 

 Aug. U to Nov. 11 nearly 400 quarts 

 which aold for Be per qt. The pait 

 ieaaon (lflI3) we had fresh titraw- 

 bernet every day from June 15 to 

 Nov. 151 We are htadquarterw for 



Stra%vberrles and Small Fmlt 

 Plants ol all kinds 



Big atock of iK-^t hiirdy v;irielles at very low 

 prices. Plum farmer, Idaho and Royal Purple 

 Raspberries, also Blackberries, Gooseberries, Cur- 

 rants and Orapes. SO years' experience. Cata- 

 logue free. 

 L. J. FARMER, Box 396. Pulaski. N.Y. 



You Pay for 

 This Lamp 



many times In ruintsJ 

 eyesight, annoyances 

 of odor and cleaning of 

 greasy lamps. May * 

 well buy it and own it. 

 Simple, safe and cheap — 

 generates its own gas giv- 

 ing 200 candle ix)wcr of 

 pure wliite brilliant ligilt 

 for less than H cent per 

 hour. Color post car<) free. 

 Write to day for circular 

 'H' and free post card. 



■RICE-KNIGHT Ltd. 

 Toronto or Regina 



Mature your crop early 

 HOW? 



The market gardener gets the top of 

 the market for early produce, and the gen- 

 eral farmer saves many dollars from early 

 frosts by using a soluble, high-grade com- 

 plete fertilizer, like one of our Stockbridge 

 manures. There is no mystery about it. 

 A crop, like a calf, will grow quicker and 

 healthier on a full ration, but the ration 

 must be right The 



Stockbridge Manures 



offer this sort of ration for crops. 



■ nSmSPQ 



The Stockbridge Manures 



were formulated by the Lite 

 Professor Stockbridge of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College and were introduced 

 forty years ago. They have 

 been improved and kept up-to- 

 date. The Stockbridge and 

 all the other Bowker brands 

 are soluble, active, sure. 

 They are made from the best 

 materials by special factory 

 methods. Prompt service and 

 moderate prices go with them. 



We want Agent* in unoc- 

 cupied territory. Write today 

 for prices and terms; this may 

 mean a good business for you if your act at once. 



Write anyway for our illu*trate<l cataJogue and calendar. 



We want you to know what we can do before you buy your spring 

 fertilizer. 



BOWKER ^^^S^ 



73 Lymui Street. Buftalo, N. Y. 39 Chmtlwm Street. Boston. Mass. 



Original and largest mantifacturers of special fertilizers. 



Fruit Combine in the West 



Replying recently to the charges that 

 combine exists among the fruit dealers of 

 the prairie provinces. Mr. W. H. Bunting, 

 of St. Catharines, stated that the charge 

 was only partly true. In Winnipeg the 

 combine had been broken by the St. Cath- 

 arines fruit growers. 



"Some years ago," said Mr. Bunting, 

 "an attempt was made by American firms 

 to buy up all the wholesale fruit houses in 

 the west. They succeeded in establishing 

 a dhain of houses under their control 

 throughout the west. Their object was to 

 control the buying and selling through the 

 western provinces, to prevont others from 

 gaining a foothold. .'Vbout three years ago, 

 when affairs became so strenuous in Win/ni- 

 peg that purchasers were at the mercy of 

 the combine, the .growers in the St. Cath- 

 arines Cold Storage Company established 

 the wholesale firm of the McNaughton Fruit 

 Exchange at Winnipeg. Thither the On- 

 tario fruit was shipped. It was sold by 

 auction to the consumer, with the result 

 that people bought direct and prices began 

 to drop. Since then several hundred car- 

 loads of Niagara district fruit have been 

 sent to Winnipeg. Last fall two or three 

 carloads were shipped daily, and the com- 

 bine in Winmipeg was completely broken. 



"High freight rates west of Winnipeg 

 have militated against eastern growers 

 fighting the combine in Calgary, Edmon- 

 ton and other cities. It costs twice as 

 much to ship from Winnipeg to Calgary, a 

 distance of eight hundred miles, as it does 

 to ship from St. Catharines to Winnipeg, a 

 distance of one thousand miles. We are 

 fighting for lower rates, and hope soon to 

 have them reduced. The Railway Commis- 

 sion has asked the C.P.R. to give reasons 

 why the rates should not be reduced. As 

 soon as the rates are reduced to Alberta 

 and Saskatchewan eastern growers will at- 

 tempt to break the combine's higih-handed 

 work west of Winnipeg." 



THE WEST ACTIVB 



"In the meantime, as far as the more 

 western points are concerned, such as Cal- 

 gary, Regina, Moosejaw and Edmonton, 

 British Columbia growers through the med- 

 ium of the Vernon Fruit Exchange, have 

 been working along the same line as we 

 have in the east in a determined effort to 

 place Britisih Columbia fruit in the prairie 

 cities independent of the organization which 

 attempted to corrall the trade. The Ver- 

 non association has met with very good 

 success and is I believe now on a satisfac- 

 tory footing amd promises to be of great 

 value to British Columbia growers." 



Items of Interest 



Cherry Lane, a beautiful avenue lead- 

 ing from the roadway to Brown Bros.' Nur- 

 sery offices at Fonthill, Ont., has long been 

 admired for its beauty. It is bordered on 

 either side by cherry trees, one row on each 

 side. The product from these trees this 

 year was 1800 baskets, all of which were 

 sold to the Pelham Canning Company. The 

 price reached over $1,800. The product 

 was the finest grown in the township. 



Quite a number of the orchaird owners in 

 the Meaford district, Ontario, have com- 

 meinced setting out plantations of peaches. 

 Several have put out twenty to forty trees, 

 and some have gone as high as two hun- 

 dred. The varieties selected are for the 

 most part Triumph, Carmen, Fitzgerald. 

 Elberta and Crawford. 



Rev. W. M. Viney, of St. Catharines, suc- 

 ceeded last year in growing a cotton plant 

 from seed sown in the parsonage garden.. 



