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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



September, 191 1 



Est«bllifced 1890 Losj Diitaice Telephone M 3102 



H.J. ASH 



(Member Toronto Board of Trade) 



WHOLESALE 

 FRUIT MERCHANT 



44 Church St., Toronto, Ont. 



SPECIALTY: Fancy Home Grown 

 Fruit and Vegetables 



SEND FOR STAMP AND PAD 



Cold Storage Fruit 

 Warehouse 



Finest Apple Rooms in the Dominion for 



EXPORT AND LOCAL TRADE 



Special Rooms for All Kinds of Perishable 

 Goods. 



THE CANADA COLD STORAGE CO. 



LIMITED 

 53 WILLIAM STREET, MONTREAL 



You cannot expect good work 

 from a. furnace unless it is 



properly installed. 



You cannot buy a. Furnace like you do ». Stove — 

 send it home and have the "Handy-Nan" put it up — 

 not if you expect to get all the heat out of your coal. 



<| Your heating- system must be 

 planned. The registers must be 

 properly placed. The warm and 

 cold air ducts must be a certain 

 diameter. The furnace must be 

 located in just the right spot — and 

 it must be just the right size. €[ We 

 supply plans to you absolutely free 

 and you do not need to buy a 

 furnace to get them either. 



<| If you have a heating problem to 

 solve — new building or old — send 

 us a rough diagram of yourbuilding, 

 showing the location of doors and 

 windows, fl We will prepare for 

 you complete plans and specifica- 

 tions for heating that building, give 

 you an estimate of the cost of the 

 heating system, and also the advice 

 of our experts on every detail. 



"HedaFumace 



The plan is essential, but it is also 

 essential to have a furnace that will 

 give you ample heat — one that will 

 supply pure, fresh air without a 

 taint of gas, and, for the lady 

 of the house, heat that will be 

 free from dust and smoke. 



The " Hecla" is such a furnace. 



GET THIS BOOKLET. 



" Comfort & Health " tells how 

 you can get heat without gas. It 

 tells how to get the same heat from 

 six tons of coal as you ever got 

 from seven. Write for it to-day. 

 And at the same time ask for any 

 information you may require regard- 

 ing the heating of your home. 1^7 



CLARE BROS. h. CO.. LIMITED, - PRESTON, Ont. 



■QTT « '■aTsT*' Send a rough diagram ot your house and li' IHT 

 I; I ,/* ^|^% we will send complete plans and F Kf ,f. 



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Packing Apples in Barrels 



Tlie management of the Norfolk Fruit 

 Growers' Association (Ont.) has sent a cir- 

 cular letter to its members giving the fol- 

 lowing suggestions in regard to the pack- 

 ing of fruit : 



Get your ladders, picking baskets, pack- 

 ing table, stemmer, press, leveller and plank 

 on hand, also engage your pickers and pack- 

 ers so that when your apples are ready to 

 pack you are in a position to do bo. 



Picking should be done with care. Handle 

 the apples so that they will not be bruised. 

 Never pick apples off the ground and put 

 in the barrels with Handpicked No. 1 or No. 

 2 apples. 



Drive all quarter hoops down firmly and 

 nail with three nails in each upper quarter 

 hoop. Then drive hoops well down on the 

 end of the barrel with poorest head and 

 nail four nails. Then head line by using 

 four nails in each headliner. Exercise care 

 in headlining and drive nails slanting. If 

 nails show through to outside of barrel 

 don't clinch but take out and drive right 

 so it does not show through. Now, take 

 out the other end of the barrel and clinch 

 the quarter hoop nails. Use one and a 

 quarter-inch wire nails. Next stencil your 

 barrel. 



packing 



Get everything ready for packing. 



If using paper, place this in the end of 

 the barrel. With great care pick out and 

 stem your facers, not the largest but aver- 

 age size of grade you are packing. See that 

 every apple is a perfect one with the very 

 best color you have to choose from.- You 

 should not have any difference in size in 

 your facers, but if you should have, place 

 your smaller apples to the outside row and 

 the larger ones to the centre. A good many 

 inexperienced packers do the opposite. 

 Always place stems down, with, the excep- 

 tion of long, shapely varieties, as Gilliflow- 

 er and Bellflower, which lay red cheeks 

 down. The sorting must be done carefully 

 and reject all wormy, fungus spot, bruised 

 and unshapely apples both for No. l's and 

 No. 2's. Now, place your barrel on a plank 

 and after each basket ot apples emptied 

 give the barrel several quick, short shakes. 

 You will have to be governed according to 

 the size of the apples you are packing now 

 full to fill the barrel before using the lev- 

 eller. At all times level so it will take one 

 row, blossom end up, on top and leave your 

 apples about one-half inch above staves. 

 Care must be exercised in racking down 

 very carefully. Nail and headline your bar- 

 rel and same is ready for shipment. 



Size for Snows, Golden Russet and kin- 

 dred sized varieties, 2 1-4 inches and over, 

 of good color, for No. l's. and 2 18 inches 

 and over showing some color for No. 2's. 



Size for Baldwins and kindred sized va- 

 rieties, 2 1-2 inches and over, of good color, 

 for No. l's, and 2 1-4 inches and over 

 showing some color, for No. 2's. 



Size for Spies, Greenings, Kings and kin- 

 dred sized varieties, 2 5-8 inches and over, 

 of good color, for No. l's, and 2 3-8 inches 

 and over, showing some color, for No. 2's. 



Don't pack any No. 2's in Talman Sweets 

 or early fall apples, such as Jenneting, Col- 

 verts, St. Lawrence, Maiden Blush, etc. 

 Pack very few No. 2's in odd winter vari- 

 eties. Let No. 2's chiefly consist of Kings, 

 Snows, Greenings, Spies, Baldwins and Kus- 

 sets. 



The number on every barrel is the grow- 

 er's name, and each grower will be paid 

 for his fruit according to varieties and 

 quality, and it is the duty of each grower 

 to see that his apples are packed according 



