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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



March, 1913 



Flower and 

 Vegetable 



Seeds 



Selecting good seed 

 has a. great deal to do 

 with the ultimate success 

 of growing flowers or 



vegetables. The love of flowers 

 should inspire those who culti- 

 vate them to select the choicest 

 and most reliable seeds. Gard- 

 ening for profit or pastime 

 should be done with a view to getting the best results. The size, quantity 

 and excellence of flowers and vegetables are things that are governed 

 largely by the character, strength and pedigree of the seeds. 



CARTER'S 



TESTED 

 ENGLISH 



SEEDS 



These famous seeds are known, sown and grown the world over. 

 Wherever used they have made extraordinary records for productiveness. 

 Your flowers and your garden vegetables for next season will be the 

 admiration of all who see them and a source of pride and satisfaction to 

 yourself if you sow Carter's Tested Seeds this Spring. Order from the 

 catalogue. Write for a copy at once, so you can order early. 



Send for 1913 Catalogue— FREE 



Printed on fine paper, profusely illustrated with 

 half-tones and containing four full page pictuers 

 in natural colors. When you write, please address 

 Department O 



PATTERSON, WYLDE & CO. 



Sole Agents in Canada for James Carter & Co., of London, 



Eng. Seed Growers to His Majesty King George V. .^t- ■ ^ ' * j . - 



133 KING ST. EAST. TORONTO. ONT. m xuiWkTns oeoru v. 



I RHODES DOUBLE CUT 

 PRUNING SHEAR 



RHODES mPQ. CO., 



«a« S. DIVISION AVE , QRAND RAPIDS, niCH. 



THE only 

 * pruner 

 madetnat cuts 

 from both sides of 

 the limb and does not 

 bruise the bark. Made in 

 all styles and sizes. We 

 pay Express charges 

 on all orders. 



Write for 

 circular ana 

 prices. 



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 OIL LIGHT 



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 or Gasoline 



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MANTLE LAMP CO., 258 Aladdin BIdg., Montreal and Winnipeg, Can. 



New Brunswick 



Interest in fruit g-rouing- in New Bmns- 

 wick is rapidly increasingr. New orchards 

 are being- plamted and better care is be- 

 ing taken of the old orchards. The Fruit 

 Growers' .Association reports a great in- 

 crease in the number of orders for trees, 

 and that the number of spraying outfit* 

 amd quantity of spraying material pur- 

 chased showed an increase between 1910 

 and 1912 of 1,080 p>er cent. Last summer 

 and fall a number of prominent English 

 capitalists visited our fruit districts, as 

 well as some fruit growers from British 

 Columbia, where land values are much 

 higher than they are here. 



The Provincial Department of Agricul- 

 ture realizes that the time is ripe for a 

 dcvelopmf^nt of the fruit industry, and last 

 year continued the series of orchard sur- 

 veys that was started in 1911. These sur- 

 veys consist of a farm census, and are be- 

 ing- conducted with the object of gather- 

 ing information of value to the fruit grow- 

 ing industry, including such points as the 

 best varieties, methods of cultiavtion, amd 

 insect aind fungus pests and their con- 

 trol. All the farms fronting on the west- 

 ern bank of the St. John River, from 

 Fredericton to Woodstock, a distance of 

 sixty-two miles, have been surveyed.. As- 

 sistance is also being given in the plant- 

 ing of orchards and in the examination of 

 bearing orchards and orchard sites. 



The twenty-one illustration orchards are 

 fully equipped with spraying machines 

 and materials and are making good pro- 

 gress, as are three special demonstration 

 orchards. Recently the Department of 

 Agriculture made an extensive display of 

 fruit grown in the province in the City of 

 Montreal, where it attracted much atten- 

 tion amd proved a valuable advertisement 

 for our fruit interests. 



Railway Charges Injure Fruit 

 Industry 



Speaking recently before the Agriculture 

 and Commerce Committee of the Dominion 

 House of Commons, Mr. D. Johnson, pre- 

 sident of the Ontario Fruit Growers' As- 

 sociation, said that the reason there are 

 so many United States apples in Canada 

 is because the United States shippers have 

 a better transportation rate. United States 

 shippers, for instance, have a rate of thir- 

 teen cents a barrel between Medicine Hat 

 and Winnipeg. Ontario shippers on the 

 other hand pay seventy-nine cents or sixty- 

 six cents more. The railways always get 

 their tolls, no matter what the market or 

 the price. 



The fruit growers in Ontario are los- 

 ing the trade of Saskatchewan amd .'^ - 

 berta thiough railway discrimination. Ex- 

 press rates are killing the trade in peaches 

 plums, and other small fruit. During th 

 past ten years practically nothing ha 

 been dome to increase the refrigerator car 

 service. The express rate on fruit from 

 Sarnia to Winnipeg is two dollars ninety 

 cents a hundred. From Forest to Winni- 



PRUNING SAW 



Operates from groand. Xo breaking of Umba 

 by climbtDg. No oioviog' of ladders. Xo Bawing 

 of wroDg limbs. Can reach topnioat branches and 

 sbape tree better than by old meibods. Will sare its 

 coatinonertay. Nothing to get ooi of order. Will laat 

 foryears, Thoasands in ase. Recommended by all ustTS. 

 If yoar dealer cau't furnish it, write for mil dejcrlittive 

 circular and prices, iiatisfaciioa gaaranbeed. Addresi 



FRUITGROWERS' SAW CO., Scotfsville, N. V. 



Representative tor Ontario, 



Jas. E. Johnson & Bro., SImcoe, Ont. 



