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THE CANADIAN IIORTTO ULT URIST 



June, ig 



TO THE TRADE 



ELWAY' 



(Of LANGPORT, Eng.) 



RENOWN ED 



PLANTS & SEEDS 



as advertised, are offered at 

 SPECI AU RATES TO 

 CANADIAN NURSERYMEN. 



I NO AGENTS 



NO BRANCH STORES I 



Our House Is open to every legiti- 

 mate Nurseryman and Seedsman In 

 the Dominion. ASK FOR PRICES 



KELWAY & SON, S^ouVl".?? 



LANGPORT, e nguan d. 



THE CLIPPER 



Threare llirce IhiiijcH ihat destroy your 

 lawns l>aiHlclioiiR. Hack 

 Plantain and Crab (Jra^H, 

 In one HWLHon the ('Upper will 

 drive them all out. \ our de- 

 aler HhouUi havethem— If ho 

 has not drop usa line and w« 

 willecnflcircuIarR and prices 

 CLIPPER LAWN MOWeit CO. 

 Box lU. DIxoa. IIL 



"Johnny-on-thc-Spot" 



Will Operate your cream separator, honey extraL-tor. 



pump, washing machine, pulper. etc. for one cent an hour. 



Can you afford to be without him ? He costs only $47.3f). 

 Write for particulars on Gilson 

 "Goes Like Sixty" Engines. Made 

 in all sizes from \% IIP upwards. 



IGILSON MANUFACTURING CO., LIMITED 



2701 York St., GUELPH, Ont. 



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 ivori 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 work 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 

 w^ graJuatly, 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 to his makers 

 —Westctox, La Salle, Illinois— mA 

 ' he'll come to you prepaid. 



toes, thoujfh all the principal kinds 

 vejjptables were under experiment. 



ORNAMENTAL GAKDENrNG 



Under ornamental (fardening comi 

 culture of ornamental trees, shrubs, <, 

 herbaceotis plants ; the study of their 

 dividual characteristics, saich as heig 

 form, coloring, and season of bloom, 

 that information will be available to C 

 adiams to enable them to plant their pla 

 in such a way that the trees, shrubs, i 

 herbaceous plants will blend or be o 

 trasted with one another to form pleas] 

 landscape effects. The education of ' 

 people by lectures and bulletins on or 

 mental gardening and the encouragement 

 the beautifying of home surroundings, 

 much needed in Canada, is also a part 

 ornamental gardening which received 

 tention during the year. In addition, la; 

 collections of roses, irises, phloxes, pae 

 ies, lilacs, gladioli, geraniums, and * 

 ornamental plants have been got t< 

 to studv. There was a fine display of .;. 

 at the Central Farm in 1912, and vii 

 were much interested in them and pi 

 with the ornamental grounds as a whol* 



The forest belts, planting in which i 

 begun in 1888, furnish interesting data 

 the relative growth of the different tim 

 trees amd the merits of having the spec 

 or planting them in blocks of one kind. 1 

 annual measurements of a number of ti 

 were taken in 1912, as in previous years. 



PLANT BLEEDING 



The improvements of fruits, vegetab 

 and ornamental plants by cross-breed 

 and selection and the study of the laws 

 inheritance in different kinds and va 

 ties of horticultural plants is, in brief, 

 field of work which is covered in pi 

 breeding in the Horticultural Division. 

 to comparatively recemt years, Canada 

 had to depend almost entirely on ot 

 countries for her new varieties of fru 

 vegetables, and ornamental plants, 

 while many of these succeed admirably 

 this country, it is felt that, if origins 

 in a climate more nearly like where they 

 to be grown than has been the case in m 

 instances in the past, those that show 

 pecial merit are likely to prove more us 

 than those introduced from climates \ 

 dissimilar. During the past twenty- 

 years, much attention has been paid to 

 breeding of horticultural plants at the ( 

 tral Experimental Farm. Many vari« 

 of hardy hybrid apples, crosses bet« 

 the Siberian Crab (Pyrus baccata) and 

 apple originated by Dr. Wm. Saund 

 have already been introduced into 

 prairie provinces and have proved bar 

 than any previou^ tested there. Sec 

 crosses made by Dr. Saunders with r] 

 blood' of the larger apples and having : 

 of good marketable size were propag 

 in 1912 for introduction. Many varietie 

 apples of handsome appearance and j 

 quality have originated in the Horticult] 

 Division and the best of these have I 

 sent out for test to different parts of 'I 

 ada to compare with those already ra\ 

 market. More than two hundred of ti 

 new sorts have been propagated, I 

 eighty-two of the best, named. 



A large number of seedling strawbe 

 has been raised in the Horticultural 

 sion, and some of the best are being 

 pagated for introduction. Special attei 

 is being paid to the development of 

 strains of vegetables which will be of ( 

 value in the colder districts of Canad 

 well as in the more temperate parts. ' 

 progress was made in this work in 

 and provision has been made for gr 



