

THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



April, 



Florists, Gardeners, Fruit and Vegetable Growers 



If you are comtemplating butMing 



GREENHOUSES or CONSERVATORIES 



We advise you to build right, provide against wind storms, save all your stock from 



destruction and yourself from worry, produce and work under a glass roo( that will 



insure your labours and crops, get PARKES MODERN GREENHOUSES. 



We also supply and manufacture 



SHELF BRACKETS, PIPE CARRIERS, SPLIT TEES 



GREENHOUSE WHITE PAINT. PUTTY and GLASS and all kinds of GREEN- 

 HOUSE HARDWARE, HEATING and WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS. 



If you want a good addition to your greenhouse get a line on our IDBAL SHELF BRACKETS 



WHITE TO.DAY TO 



PARRES CONSTRUCTION COMPANY 



Oflicc, Works and Showroom - KENILWORTH AVENUE, HAMILTON, ONT. 



Lonit Distance Phone 6102 



^Itnplemeiits 

 for Orchard 

 and Vineyard 



Spring-Tooth Harrows 



Spraying Outfits 



Vineyard Plows 



Orchard Disc Harrows 



Cultivators 



Grape and Berry Hoes 



etc. 



The fruit grower requires 

 suitable implements if he 

 is to be successiul. 



The manufacturer with a 

 knowledge of the require- 

 ments is in the best 

 position to supply the de- 

 mand. 



Our experience extends 

 back for well over half a 

 century and our imple- 

 ments are in successful 

 use in orchards and vine- 

 yards in many lands. 



Catalogues and full par- 

 ticulars from any of our 

 agents or by writing our 

 nearest Branch. 



Massey-^Harris Co., Ltd. 



Head Offices 



TORONTO 



BRANCHES AT 



Montreal Moncton Winnipeg 



Regina Saskatoon Yorkton 



Swilt Current Calgary 



Edmonton 



Jigmncies Everytoher* 



The Brown Tail Moth 



(Ciintiniiiul fiiini piif/r III/ 



ou^hly with a spray solution contain 

 not less than two r>ounds of arsenate of 1 

 (the arsenate of lead is to contain n 

 than fifteen per cent, of arsenic o\ 

 every forty gallons of water after the i- « 

 appear and before the blossoming < ' 

 trees. The spraying is to be carri- 

 in a satisfactory manner, and all c.i 

 which the instructions have not beti. 

 ried out will be reported by our offi( ■ r; 

 charge to the Department. 



Those fruit growers who are accu^toi 

 to spray thoroughly and at the prop* 

 need fear no defoliation or trouble, b 

 to their interests to cooperate with the 

 minion and Provincial Departments of 

 riculture in seeing that the less progres 

 persons carry out the necessary reqti 

 ments. 



Pre-cooling Advocated 



At a recent meeting of the directors 

 The United Fruit Companies of 

 Scotia, Limited, Mr. Davidson repre^ 

 the Fallmouth Fruit Company, prr 

 an indirect argument in favor of tlr 

 cooling plant it has been proposed to 

 tablish for the benefit of Nova Scotia f 

 growers. 



Mr. Davidson stated that this year 

 management of the United Fruit Comi 

 ies would have to place some ten thous 

 barrels in cold storage at St. John. It 

 been proved that the cost of having • 

 stuff held in St. John is about fifty cen' 

 barrel, or in round figures, five thous 

 dollars. 



Commenting on this statement Mr. A. 

 Adams, the manager of the United C 

 panics, writes as follows : Five thous 

 dollars to have ten thousand barrels stt 

 under the very worst conditions possi 

 but even then well expended, becaus< 

 would keep that quantity of fruit off 

 market when the market was at the lo\ 

 point. Yet when that five thousand dol 

 was expended there would be nothing 

 show for it beyond the immediate bet 

 derived. 



"How much better and how much n 

 business like it would be to expend 

 five thousand dollars towards the equipn 

 of a plant right here in the Valley, w! 

 would accomplish even better immed 

 results. The fruit being handled ui 

 much better conditions and immedia 

 after coming off the trees, would arrive 

 the market in much better shape, and 

 that reason realize bigger money. In a 

 tion, we would still have a plant for sin- 

 operations in succeeding years. This 

 sound argument which we commend to 

 consideration of those who are not aire 

 convinced that cold storag« or pre-coo 

 is absolutely essential." 



Item of Interest 



Members of the Port Arthur Boarc 

 Trade recently entertained Mr. An 

 Sitch, of Hymers, an agricultural dis" 

 tributary to Port .Arthur, in honor of 

 having established a record production i 

 potatoes of four hundred and twent>i 

 and one-half bushels for an acre, 

 competition was open to the province. 

 Sitch received as a reward a course ati 

 Guclph Agricultural College. The es 

 lishment of an experimental farm in 

 Port Aiihur district is being recouuneii. 



