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THE CANADIAN H RTI (M I/P [' R TS T 



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y. 1914 



Double The Yield of 

 The Garden ^ 



GEM GARDEN COLLECTION 



This CampleteCellecUoD will slock a moderalF-sizMl Kitchen Gardes lhrou(houl the Season. 



U-00, PoHlpaid. 



lpk(.OBloii,. Early. Slicing. 

 1 pkt. Onion... lOarly, Boiling. 

 1 pkt. Parsnip. . Long White. 



Jib. Peas KarlicHt Dwarf. 



Jib. Peas. .. Medium Karly Dwarf. 

 Ipkt. Radish. Karly Round Kf<l. 

 Iplct. Squash. ..Marrow. 

 Ipkt. Tomato Early Smooth ScarUa. 

 Ipkt. Turnip. Round, WhitpTabliv 



Cor.Adelalde & Jarris Sts., TORONTO 

 1. Winnipeg and Vancouver. 



ilb. Beans... DwarfStringloBS Yellow 

 jib. Bosm.... Dwarf Siringlcsa Ciroen 

 Ipkt. Beans. ... Dwarf Bush Lima. 



I pkt. Beel Round Red. 



Ipkt. Cabbage. .Early. 



Ipkt. Carrol... Intermedisto Red. 



}ib. Corn Early Sugar. 



I pkt. Cucumber Slicing. 



] pkt. LeKuce Cabbage Heading. 



W^ RENNIE C«umi.«i 



Also at Montreal 



l^ith Rennies Seeds 



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He's Big All Over 

 And Good All Through 



Big Ben is built for endless service. 

 He has no "off-days," no shut-downs. 

 His four years of existence have been 

 one long record of on-the-dot accu- 

 racy. 7,000 Canadian dealers say that 

 he does more efficient luork for less 

 pay than any other clock alive. 



A Big Ben battalion, over 3,000 

 strong, leaves La Salle, Illinois, every 

 day. Their sparkling triple nickel- 

 plated coats of implement steel; their 

 dominating seven-inch height; their 

 big, bold, blaak, easy-to-read figures 

 and hands; their big, easy-to-wind 

 keys — all make Big Ben the world's 

 master clock. 



In return for one little drop of oil, 

 he'll vfork for you a full year. From 

 "Boots on" to "Lights out" — 365 

 times — he'll guarantee to tell you the 



time o'day with on-the-dot accuracy. 



He'll guarantee to get you up either 

 of TWO WAYS— with one long, 

 steady , five-minute ring if you need a 

 good big call, or on the installment 

 plan, with short rings one half-minute 

 apart for ten minutes, so you'll wake 

 up gradually, and he'll stop short in 

 the middle of a tap during either call 

 if you want to shut him off. 



Big Ben is a mighty pleasant look- 

 ing fellow. His big, open honest face 

 and his gentle tick-tick have earned 

 him a place in thousands of parlors. 



The next time you go to town call 

 at your dealer's and ask to see Big 

 Ben. If your dealer hasn't him, send 

 a money order for $3.00 tohis makers 

 — Westchx, La Salle, Illinois — and 

 he'll come to you prepaid. 



Eastern Annapolis Valley 



Euice Bocbnnu 



Last month I n:ientioned that I said no 

 sign of aphis on tTie first batch of apple 

 twigs brought into the house, but on a 

 second lot of Kings and Blenheims brought 

 in later there were aphis. 



The demand for nursery trees is not 

 Kreat owing to scarcity of cash. Last year 

 aJthough the season finished with good 

 prices for fruit, the apples were badly spot- 

 ted and did not pack up to expectatioi 

 the year before also produced spotted fri 

 However, most of the growers intend 

 spray more thoroughly tham ever, and n; 

 than one air-tight sprayer is being imp<;:i- 

 ed from the United States. 



The forests and shelter belts are rap 

 falling before the axe, and already one f^ 

 the effects of the strong cold winds as 

 sweep along the Valley. 



The spring is unusually late (some y^ 

 we have peas • planted by the last 

 March). Snow fell on April 12th, and 

 following day was very cold, with ic' 

 hanging all day, although we hav« 

 days this year with the thermometer as high 

 as 60 degrees. 



At this time of the year ooe is tempted 

 to compare the spring here with that of 

 England, where the snowdrops come in 

 February and the daffodils and narcissi are 

 in full swing in April, and where the fruit 

 trees blossom long before those in Canada; 

 but when autumn comes the tables are turn- 

 ed, for the Canadian fruits are ready to 

 harvest just as soon as the English. 



Seed potatoes from Nova Scotia have now 

 also been prohibited in Bermuda ; so those 

 growers who have saved their crops for 

 better prices are apt to be disappointed. 



Many Englishmen are filling the places 

 of the native hired man (who does not find 

 things as alluring in the States as for- 

 merly), so wages are not likely to go 

 higher yet awhile (the highest is about $40 

 per month and house). There are many 

 applicants for work, amd this year the far- 

 mers need to economize ; many of them do 

 not care to keep men all winter, or more 

 than one. Prunin.y b.Ts brpin .ifoinir on dur- 

 ing March and April, but there have been 

 days when the average farmer was puzzled 

 to find a job for his men. The old buck 

 saw and horse are resting on many farms 

 while the gasoline engine cuts the cord- 

 wood into stove lengths. 



.Another cooperative fruit company has 

 been formed in Cambridge , King's county, 

 N.S., with Mr. J. G. Webster as president 



Australian fruit is arriving in England— 

 this, and the poor condition of Nova Sco- 

 tian fruit on arrival has resulted in a bad 

 drop in prices. The highest being $4.39 

 for No. 1 Nonpareils, and $2.30 for No. 

 3'?. Ben Davis ranging from $3.76 "" 

 $2.80; Gano, $4.10 to $2.80. 



Experimental Work at Ottawa 



Four new greenhouses erected for the 

 Horticultural Division at the Central Ex- 

 perimental Farm, Ottawa, are nearing com- 

 pletion, and already two have been occu- 

 pied. They are what is known as the Pier- 

 son-U-Bar Flat Iron Curved Eave Comstruc- 

 tion, and will give about seven thousand 

 five hundred square feet under glass. They 

 are heated with hot wat«r from sectional 

 boilers and consist of a main house one 

 hundred and seven feet, six inches lonir. 

 and twenty-five feet wide, divided into two 

 by a glass partition, and three detached 

 houses twelve feet apart on one side of it. 

 each fifty-eight feet six inches long and 



