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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



December, 1914. 



Uook your Chrletnias Diiiiior in 

 a Peerlosu Cooker. Send name 

 and addroaH for catalogue and 

 Free Dandy Household Outfit 

 Offer. Direct from factory Lo your 

 home prepaid, AtjcntH Wanted. 

 PterU»» Cooker & Specialty Co. - Berlin, Ont. 



ORDER YOUR NURSERY STOCK 



<IirtH;t from the grower and huvo niiddlemen's 

 profit*. Write at one© for our free deflcrip- 

 live catalogue of fruit trees, Bmall fruits. 

 everg-reens, roecs etc. Address 



J. H. McCOMBS NURSERIES 



R. R. No. 2 WELLAND, ONT. 



FOR PROFIT 



Plant our Top Notch FRUIT. SHADE 

 andORNAMENTAL TREES. EVER- 

 GREENS, SHRUBS, ROSES. 

 VINES. BUSHES. Ask for Price List 

 (No Agents) at Central Nurseries. 

 Special low price on APPLE TREES. 

 100 in lots. Caofld-io Grown. 

 A. G. HULL & SONS, ST. CATHARINES, ONT. 



Useful 

 New Invention 



Enables Anyone to Play 

 Piano or Organ With- 

 out Lessons 



A Detroit musician has invented a 

 wonderful new system which enables 

 any person or a little child to learn to 

 play the piano or org-an in one even- 

 ing. Even though you kmow abso- 

 lutely nothing about music or have 

 never touched a piano or organ you can 

 now learn to play in an hour or two. 

 People who do not know one note from 

 another are able to play their favor- 

 ite music with this method without 

 any assistance whatever from anyone. 



This new system, which is called 

 the Numeral Method, is sold in Can- 

 ada by the Numeral Method Music 

 Co. of Canada, and as they are desir- 

 ous of at once making it known in 

 every locality, they are making the 

 following special free trial and half- 

 price offer to our readers. 



You are not asked to send any 

 money until you have tried and are 

 satisfied with the new method. The 

 Numeral Company is willing to send 

 it to you on one week's free trial, and 

 you will not have to ■ pay them one 

 cent unless you desire to keep it. 

 There are no express charges to be 

 paid, as everything will be sent by 

 mail. Simply write a letter or post 

 card to the Numeral Method Music 

 Co. of Canada, 246R Curry Hall, Wind- 

 sor, Ontario, saying "Please send me 

 the Numeral Method on seven days' 

 free trial." If you are satisfied after 

 trying it, the Method and fifty differ- 

 ent pieces of sheet music will cost 

 you only $5, although the regular* 

 price of these is $10. You should not 

 delay writing, as the Numeral Com- 

 pany will not continue this special 

 half-price offer indefinitely. Later on 

 the Method and fifty pieces of music 

 will be sold at the regular price. 



touch, not only with us but also with every 

 market. 



For instance, London unexpectedly 

 slumps, we have a large parcel almost 

 there. These are all consigned to our own 

 office, which immediately takes steps to 

 tranship that fruit or such of it as will 

 stand reshipment, to other markets. Hull, 

 Copenhagen, Hamburg, Paris, so on, where 

 prices may be better. Such action .saved 

 us large sums last year, and will always 

 do so when such circumstances arise. 



Last year over and over again, we saved 

 the situation on certain markets by with- 

 holding pur apples from certain boats, 

 knowing that had we put them on, the 

 market would have gone to pieces, and 

 would have been a long while recovering. 



Two striking, instances occurred within 

 one month : We were advised that if a cer- 

 tain boat carried more than 20,000 barrels 

 the market would decline badly, and our 

 estimates of future shipments indicated the 

 same thing. We, therefore, withdrew our 

 apples, and the boat sailed with 18,000 bar- 

 rels. Had ours gone forward she would 

 have carried 26,000, which would have un- 

 questionably have put the market in a 

 pretty bad state. Instead of doing so we 

 brought in a C.P.R. boat, which sailed 

 seven days later, ariving after the market 

 was cleaned up and bare, and giving us the 

 market entirely to our.sclves, with splendid 

 results. Through our action the ordinary 

 shipper was saved and the market was 

 kept steady for the benefit of not only our- 

 .sclves but for all. Without cooperative cen- 

 tralization markets never could be regulat- 

 ed in this way and thousands of dollars 

 would be sacrificed. 



The South African Market for 

 Fruit 



The following report by the United States 

 Consul at Johannesburg, Transvaal, on the 

 market in that district for American apples 

 and pears, applies also to the market condi- 

 tions for the same varieties of fruit of Cana- 

 dian produce. 



Particular requirements of buyers in this 

 consular district, as well as In other parts of 

 South Africa, are Washington and Oregon 

 apples, these being preferred largely on ac- 

 count of the system of packing best suiting 

 market conditions. Medium-sized red apples, 

 such as Jonathans, Rome Beauties, Banana 

 apples, Kinesaps and Spitzenoergs, particu- 

 larly the last two, are preferred to other 

 varieties. 



Apples should be wrapped in paper sep- 

 arately and packed with bulge. Boxes con- 

 taining one hundred and twenty-five to two 

 hundred, each box marked with contents, 

 sell best. The most advantageous time to 

 dispatch apples for this market is in Sep- 

 tember, October and November, September 

 shipments being specially desirable, as 

 October, November and December are the 

 best selling months. A leading fruit im- 

 porter of this city states that American ex- 

 porters of apples should make it a point not 

 to ship to South Africa after the first week 

 in November. The season starts here with 

 a rush, and if goods arrive after the months 

 above stated they frequently do not realize 



U-* u* ^^'^ '^"^^ ^^ freight. In fact, sroods 

 which cost two dollars and sixty cents a 

 box have had to be disposed of at twenty- 

 five cents a box owing to arrival after the 

 close of the apple season, /"ipples arriving 

 "ere .after December come in competition 

 with all of the local fruits, such as peaches 

 pears, apricots and other fruits locally 

 grown, and for this reason are very little in 

 demand. 



Imported apples are not allowed to be 

 sold in the general market house of lohan- 

 nesburg in competition with loyally ".^rown 



Will You Help The Hospital 

 for Sick Children, thp. Great 

 Provincial Charity ? -^|^ 



Dear Mr. Editor: — 



Thanks for the privilege of appeal- 

 ing through your columns on behalf of 

 the Hospital for Sick Children. The 

 Hospital takes care of sick and de- 

 formed children, not only in Toronio, 

 but in the Province, outside of the city. 



This coming year, of all the years 

 in the Hospital's history, has a more 

 serious outlook, as regards funds for 

 maintenance, than any year that has 

 passed its calendar. 



So many calls are being made on the 

 purses of the generous people of To- 

 ronto and Ontario, to help the soldiers 

 of the Empire, that as I make my 

 daily rounds through the wards of the 

 Hospital, and see the suffering chil- 

 dren in our cots and beds, the thought 

 strikes me as to whether the people 

 will as of old, with all the demands 

 made upon them, answer our appeal 

 and help to maintain the institution 

 ihat is fighting in the never-ending 

 battle with disease and death, in its 

 endeavor to save the stricken little 

 ones in the child-life of Ontario. 



>Last year there were 394 in-patients 

 from 210 places outside of Toronto, 

 and in the past twenty years there 

 have been 7,000 from places in the 

 Province other than Toronto. 



It costs us $2.34 per patient per day 

 for maintenance. The municipalities 

 pay for patients $1 per patient per 

 day; the Government allows 20 cents 

 per patient per day; so, deducting 

 $1.20 from $2.34, it leaves the Hospital 

 with $1.14 to pay out of subscriptions 

 it receives from the people of Toronto 

 and the Province. The shortage last 

 vear ran to $18,000. 



Since 1880 about 1,000 cases of club 

 feet, bow legs and knock knees have 

 been treated, and of these 900 had 

 perfect correction. Nearly all these 

 were from different parts of the Pro- 

 vince outside of the city of Toronto. 



Remember that every year is a war 

 year with the Hospital; every day is 

 a day of battle; every minute the 

 Hospital needs money, not for its own 

 sake, but for the children's sake. The 

 Hospital is the battle-ground where the 

 Armies of Life have grappled with the 

 Hosts of Death, and the life or death 

 of thousands of little children is the 

 issue that is settled in that war. Will 

 you let the Hospital be driven from 

 the field of its battle to save the lives 

 of little children for the lack of money 

 you can give and never miss? 



Every dollar may prove itself a 

 dreadnought in the battle against 

 death, a flagship in the fleet that fights 

 tor the lives of little children. 



Remember that the door of the Hos- 

 pital's mercy is the door of hope, and 

 your dollar, kind reader, may be the 

 key that opens the door for some- 

 body's child. > 



Win you send a dollar, or more If 

 you can. to Douglas Davidson, Secre- 

 tary-Treasurer, or 



' J. ROSS ROBERTSON. 



Chairman of the Board of Trusteei, 

 Toronto. 



