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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



December, 1913 



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GARDErJ owes much of its 

 charm to the beauty of its simple 

 herbaceous plants. 



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nection with the live stock show will g 

 the fruit growers a better opportunity 

 advertise their products than ever befo 

 One admission ticket at the main gate . 

 mils the visitor to all departments of < 

 fair. As the importance of the live stt 

 features become better appreciated throuj 

 out the province, much greater crowds \ 

 visit the National Live Stock, Horticultu 

 and Dairy Show than ever visited the H 

 ticultural Exhibition as a separate in; 

 tution. It will be unfortunate, however, 

 the horticultural features are ultimat 

 overshadowed by the rest of the cxhibitio; 

 Ontario's Fruit Show is becoming evi 

 year more of a box apple show. Eif 

 years a^o there were only eleven bo; 

 on exhibtion. At the fair last month thi 

 were two entries of two hundred boxes eai 

 several one hundred box entries, numerc 

 entries in the single box classes ; all 

 which goes to show that Ontario growi 

 are coming to appreciate the merits of I 

 box package 



FLORAL FI!ATT7RBB 



The flower department of the fair show 

 up to better advantage this year than ei 

 before. There was abundaince of room 

 the exhibits in the large transportati 

 building where the fair was held, and I 

 florists took full advantage of their opp< 

 tunities, making a veritable fairyland 

 the whole southern end of the buildir 

 People who have seen both testify that 1 

 flower department of the fair far excell 

 that of the New York show, both in qual 

 and beauty. Chrysanthemums and orchi 

 were especially strong. Some of the fini 

 specimens came from the greenhouses 

 R. Jennings and the Dale Estate of Brair 

 ton. Many of the chrysanthemum blooi 

 were twenty-two to twenty-five inchep 

 circumference. Sir Henry Pellatt was t 

 most successful private exhibitor. Oth 

 florists prominent among the winners w« 

 VVm. Jay & Sons, Thos. Manton, and Gf 

 Bonnett. 



VEGETABLE DISPLAY 



Perhaps the vegetable growers descer 

 most credit for progress made. Th-eir t 

 hibits this year excelled those of previo 

 years in both quantity and quality. The 

 was a profusion of onions, cabbages, poi 

 toes, and all other vegetables common a 

 uncommon. The prevalence of the d 

 ease, Rhizoctonia among the potato exl 

 bits shows how serious this comparative 

 unknown disease is becoming. The inm 

 cent-looking brown spots characteristic 

 the trouble were in some cases found i 

 every plate of a variety. Exhibitors we 

 numerous, there not being a single cla 

 in which competitiom was lacking. T' 

 chief exhibitors were Chas. Plunkett, Rol 

 Plunkett & Sons, and John Creighton, ; 

 of Weston, F. C. Reeves, Wrh. Harris, Ji 

 and Brown Bros., of Humber Bay, Ja 

 Dandridge, W. R. Trott, London, and se 

 «ral others located in or near Toronto. 



Beekeepers were given the most desi 

 able position in the whole buildimg, rig 

 in the centre and between the flower ai 

 fruit shows. They used their space 

 good advantage, staging an attractive e 

 hi'bit of honey in the comb, liquid and sugi 

 states. 



COTTNTT EXHIBITS 



It was a banner year for Northumbe 

 land and Durham. Fruit growers of the! 

 united counties got well over five humdn 

 dollars in prize money, and captured mar 

 of the most coveted positions. Their e: 

 hibit that attracted most attention was 

 three-hundred-box lot of Spies of splendi 

 quality and of such uniform size and s 

 well packed that there were exactly or 

 hundred apples in each of the three hui 



