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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



January, 1913 



SPRAYING 



A Profitable 

 Investment 



is the name of a booklet of over one hundred pages, 

 compiled from the bulletins issued by the Govern- 

 ment and Agricultural Colleges, regarding the life 

 history and method of exterminating the various 

 insect pests and fungus diseases, that are responsible 

 for enormous losses each year to the fruit growers, 

 farmers and gardeners of this country. 



The importance of getting this information 

 into the hands of those who are most interested in 

 the extermination of these pests, was realized by the 

 Insecticide Department of the Sherwin-Williams 

 Co., and as a result, this concise and practical book- 

 let has been published for free distribution, it gives 

 complete information regarding the most important 

 pests, and a table showing the most efficient method 

 of exterminating them. The booklet contains about 

 fifty illustrations which will enable a person to dis- 

 tinguish the particular pest that is destroying his 

 crops. 



Some of the spraying preparations that are 

 advocated by the authorities are manufactured by 

 the Sherwin-Williams Insecticide Department and 

 complete information is given regarding them. 



A copy of this booklet will be sent, free of 

 cost or obligation, to any person who sends their 

 address to our Insecticide Department. 



The Sherwin-Williams Co. 



of Canada, Limited 



MANUFACTURERS OF INSECTICIDES 

 OFFICES & Vk'AR E H O USES; MONTREAL. TORONTO. WiNN.PEC. VANCOUVER. 



ONOON, ENG 



have San Jose Scale, living- or dead, upon 

 it, as well as any other injurious insect 

 named in the Injurious Insect, Pest and 

 Plant Disease Act of 1911, will be destroy- 

 ed or shipped out of the province at the 

 expense of the consii^nee. 



Sixty per cent, of this year's imported 

 stock from Ontario and Quebec had some 

 examples of scale, dead or alive. The nur- 

 seryman who knowinjfly sends infected 

 stock into a district free from that pest, 

 ouffht to have some g-reater punishment 

 than merely losing- his market. The indus- 

 try of a xreat country is imperilled that a 

 few men may for the time being- grasp a 

 few more dollars. 



A feature of the work of the United Fruit 

 Companies has been the large market found 

 in Montreal for our No. threes. Owing to 

 the late growth of fungus or black spot, 

 a large proportion of our Gravensteins had 

 to be marked No. three, as the companies 

 allowed only clean apples to be packed in 

 their Nos. one and two grades. 



These were large well-formed apples, but 

 when spotted, Gravensteins begin to decay 

 very quickly, so it is necessary to find a 

 near-by market. 



A few cars were sent to Montreal, and as 

 a fine cooking apple their value was at once 

 recogrnized by the pedlar trade. Word came 

 back for more, and in all about nine thou- 

 sand barrels of No. three Gravensteins alone 

 were marketed in that city, at a little over 

 one dollar a barrel net. One of the strong 

 features of the companies is the pushing of 

 our fruit in new markets. They have ship- 

 ped to date one hundred and fifty-five thou- 

 sand barrels, of which fifty thousand were 

 placed in Canada and Newfoundland. Their 

 nack is giving universal satisfaction. — 

 M. K. E. 



Ontario Fruit Growers' 

 Convention 



At tlie recent convention in Toronto of 

 the Ontario Fruit Growers' As.«ociation. 

 P. E. Angle. B. S. A.. Simeoe. Ont., cue 

 of the larerest apple planters in Ontario, 

 described his method of laying out the or- 

 chard and setting the trees. He strongly 

 recommended the use of a wire stretched 

 from end to end of the field in order to 

 get the rows straight and the trees evenly 

 spaced in the row. 



P-rof. J. W. Crow, in his address on 

 "The Selection of Nursery Stock." strongly 

 advocated the low headed tree. He did not 

 see what use a tree had of more than twelve 

 inches of a trunk or eicrhteen inches at the 

 outside. It is diilfirult. however, to buy 

 such a low headed tree from nurser>'men, 

 so the speaker advocated the buving of one- 

 vear-old. unbranched trees. The grower 

 ran then make a head to suit himself. Prof. 

 Crow believes it would be a desirable im- 

 provement if nurserymen headed all of their 

 trees low. then those, who wanted high 

 heads would have onlv to cut off the lower 

 branches. Mr. E. D. Smith, speaking 

 for the nursen^men. said that they would 

 just as soon sell low headed as high head- 

 ed trees, but that they had to give what 

 the public demanded, and as yet public 

 opinion had not been educated to appre- 

 ciate the low headed tree. 



BEST Srx VARIETIB8 



"What Six Varieties Shall We Plant for 

 Profit" was discussed by a number of ex- 

 perts with the various fruits. In apples, 

 J. R. Anderson. M.L.A.. Lucknow, recom- 

 mended Wealthy. Snow or Mcintosh, King, 

 Goldem Russet. Baldwin, Spy. Much ad- 

 verse opinion was expressed regarding this 

 list, most of those present thinking that 



