THE CANADIAN II OliTI C ULT U RIS T 



March, 191, 





m0^/M Large and 



Early 

 Tomatoes 



Progressive Jones Says : 



"The Early Tomato Gets 

 The Fat Price'' 



THEREFORE, we want the early tomato. I've just 

 been reading a letter from F. G. Bridge of St. James 

 Park, near London, Ont., who has had great success 

 in growing early tomatoes. He says: "The 



ara 



I purchased have done all claimed for them and more. Where I put Harab on 



Tomatoes, the fruit is larger and ripening early, and where I did not use the Ferti- 

 lizer the fruit is very small and going to be late." 



You can have just as great success with your tomatoes as Mr. Bridge, and scores 

 of others, if you enrich your soil with Harab Fertilizers. Harab No. 12 contains just 

 the amount of Nitrogen, Phosphoric Acid and Potash required to start the young 

 tomato plant off right and push it to early maturity, increasing and improving 

 the fruit as well. 



My experience has shown that, while stable manures supply the humus to hold 

 the moisture in the ground, they need the assistance of richer, well-balanced ferti- 

 lizers to produce the biggest yield and to bring the tomatoes to early maturity. 

 Mr. W. A. Thrasher of Sarnia states that he picked tomatoes ten d lys earlier from a 

 plot treated with Harab Fertilizer than from an adjoining plot treated with stable 

 manure. 



I find from experience that soil fertilized with manure produces a large growth 

 of vine, and while the vines may be loaded the fruit is undeveloped and ripens late, 

 if at all. On the other hand where Harab No. !2 has been used, I find the vine 

 development moderate, while the fruit is more plentiful, larger and ripens earlier. 



Using the proper fertilizers means the early ripening of your tomatoes — and 

 other vegetables — and the fat price for you. There are 14 different Harab Fertilizers, 

 each one the best for its particular purpose. The 

 Harris Abattoir havfe published a guide book, showing 

 the correct fertilizers for all kinds of vegetables, fruits, 

 field crops, berries, flowers and lawns. I strongly 

 advise you to write for a copy. 



The Harris Abattoir Co., Limited, Toronto 



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will have to be exercised in selecting? th 

 fruit. In as far as the package and pack 

 ing are concerned, Mr. Dobson has thi 

 part of the problem solved.*' 



Mr. Dobson was also written to for in 

 formation but a reply from him has no 

 been received. 



Vegetable Growers Plan Thei 

 Work 



Every branch of the Ontario Vegetabl 

 Growers' Association was represented a 

 the annual meetinjjf of the association hi^li 

 in Toronto early in February. It was de 

 cided to continue the experiments in th 

 growing of potatoes and peas for see> 

 distribution that have been conducted ii 

 Xorthern Ontario. 



Standintf field crop competitions, whici 

 have been conducted with success m. th 

 past, will be continued during 1913. Th 

 province will be divided into four districts 

 and prizes will be offered im each distric 

 for the g^rowing- of celery, potatoes aw 

 onions. District prize winners will b 

 eligible for entrance in a provincial com 

 petition which will bs conducted at th 

 Canadian National Exhibition Toronto 

 Four prizes will be given in each distric 

 rano-ing from $10.00 to $25.00 each. 



The following officers were elected :- 

 President. C. W. Baker. Tamblinirs ; firs 

 vice-president. VV. J. Kerr, Woodroffe : se< 

 ond vice-president. F. F. Reeves. Humbe 

 Bay ; secretary-treasurer. J. Lockie Wilsot 

 Toronto ; executive committee, the afor* 

 said oflficers. together with Thos. De' 

 worth, Weston : representative to the Cat 

 adian National Exhibition, Thos. De 

 worth : representatives to the Horticu 

 tnral Show W. J. Rush. F. F. Reevei 

 Thos. Delworth and James Dandridge. 



A resolution was passed expressing 

 protest against the action of certain see 

 dealers who have endeavored to preyen 

 the growers from purchasing seed dire* 

 from other growers. The resolution O 

 pressed the belief that such action on til 

 part of the seedsmen partook of the nai 

 ure of a combine in restraint of trade. 



Recent Catalogues 



k number of excellent catalogues hal 

 reached The Canadian Horticulturist dui 

 ing the past few weeks. These inrlnd 

 Kelwav's Manual of Horticulture. ■' 

 nossibly is not equalled by anv other 

 lication of the kind in. the world. "C 

 Acres Gladioli," by B." Hammond Tr 

 Wenham. Mass, "Hardy Herbp 

 Plants." sometimes known as "Old V 

 ioned Hardv Garden Flowers." from T 

 Smith dt Son, of The Helderleigh Ni: 

 ies. Winona, Ontario: "Rennie's Sc 

 issued bv The Wm. Remnie Co.. Tor 

 Ontario: "Bruce's Seeds for 1913. '' 

 tributed bv John A. Brure & Co., Lin 

 Hamilton. Ontario; D. M. Ferry & ' 

 nanv's "Seed Annual for 1913," ad 

 Windsor. Ontario; and "The Seed 

 nual," of Dupuy & Ferguson, Man- 

 Quebec. 



British Columbia 



The Dominion Government has acqiiirP 

 3 tract of thirty-five acres in the T' 

 Columbia River valley and will est.T 

 an experimental fruit f.irm there_ for th 

 purpose of testing various varietie<: ' 

 small and large fruits, grains, clover^ 

 potatoes. The farm is located at T 

 mere, about eiehty miles south of GoMe^ 



Penticon fruit grpwers are forming wh? 



