THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



May, ig 



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-rom the BEAUTIFU 

 OLD-FASHIONED 



GARDENS 



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,i Ktlway's Perennials 



ii Canadian Gardens 



KELWAY'S famous Hardy 

 Herbaceous Plants are modern 

 developments of the old English 

 favourites. The cottage "Piny 

 Rose" has become the Paeony, 

 incomparable in form, colour and fra- 

 grance. J he old-fashioned Larkspur 

 has developed into the stately blooms of 

 the Delphiniums ; Gaillar- 

 dias, Pyrethrums and the 

 rest, all serve to bring back 

 the charm of the old-world 

 English garden. Special 

 care is taken in packing 

 plants to arrive in Canada 

 in good order, and they can 

 ,.. be relied upon to thrive with 

 rJ^^wkX a minimum of attention. 



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ports of Montreal, Halifax, St. John, Q 

 bee and Vancouver, are all under sup 

 vision during: the busy season. The 

 provinces anp fairly extensively 

 and care is taken to inspect fruit i 

 from the United States, the grade 

 in which must comform to those on., 

 (lian packages. During the winter 

 when navigation is closed at Montri 

 when Ontario fruit is being shippi 

 American ports, the Montr-ql inspi 

 with one exception, are transferred to 

 in Ontario where fruit has been 

 and inspections arc then made of shi] 

 from such points. At the end of the 

 the services of many of the I 

 are dispens<>d with, only sixteen out 

 one being at present retained perm; 

 These men devote their time duri 

 slack season, as far as possible, to 

 meetin<''': p^d other den-on <:tration 



In ]!)12 th« position of "Apple P; 

 Demonstrator" was created, and a 

 competent in packiTig and in pi; 

 sncakintr. now d"Vote'; rn'acti'-ally his 

 time at orchard and other meeting: 

 monstrating modern method's of fruit 

 ing. The services of this man are 

 in demand, and much good has P 

 from the work he has done. 



No small task is the keeping of a tl 

 oiinh index, at Ottawa, of all inspection 

 ixirts. Thousands of these are recei 

 duriTig the season, and a tabulation 

 made of the grower's name and addr^ 

 number and kind of packages ex 

 and the date and result of inspectio 

 index has been kept since the incey 

 the .'Vet of 1901, and has been of gre. 

 in many cases where a grower's rec 

 been desired. 



Imported Nursery Stock 



The quantity of trees, shrubs and o' 

 plants, including ornamental and 

 trees, all of which are classed as '■ 

 stock," imported into Canada is int 

 annually. .According to the place o: 

 these trees are fumigated or inspectfd 

 der the Destructive Insect and Pe?t 

 before their entry is permitted, to pre 

 the introduction of insect pests.. 



To increase the facilities for im 

 trees into western Canada, the Mir. 

 .Agriculture established an additio.i 

 of entry and a fumigation station :- 

 Portal, Sask.. last summer. A new a.«. 

 larged fumigation station was also 

 at St. John, N.B., to provide more 

 modation and better facilities. Ai 

 ments are now being made to erect 

 ditional fumigation and inspection 

 at Niagara Falls, Ont.. to meet the ii^ 

 ed importations entering Canada via 

 port and destined chiefly to points 

 Ontario. The importation of nurser 

 through the mails wa.s prohibitc;. 

 March 1st. 



WiUii 



At a meeting in Morrisburg, Ont., of 

 St. Lawrence Valley Fruit Growers' A 

 ciation, held on April 20th, it was i 

 not to make another exhibit of aj 

 the fruit department of the Ontario n 

 cultural F.xhibition in Toronto unless a 

 be made prohibiting Government men, 

 act, assist, or advise as packers, from 

 dating as judges. One such official 

 said to have shown bias at the last si 

 In certain instances Baldwin apples \ 

 rated as a better apple than the Mcln 

 Red. Members of the Fruit Growers' 

 sociation of the St. Lawrence Valley 

 tend there is no comparison between 

 two. 



