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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



September, igu 



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Try the BISSELL in your 

 orchard and see what a 

 real orchard disc harrow 

 will do. Stays right down 

 to its work. Has a lever 

 for each gang, so that. one 

 gang can be adjusted to cultivate more 

 than the other when required. Attach 

 wings and it extends over 12 feet wide. Re- 

 versible— In-thi ow to Out-throw. Call on 

 local dealer cr write Department N for 

 Catalogue. 



T. E. BISSELL CO. 



ELORA 



ONT. 



The 



Bissell OR D c ,S£ RD 



See advertisement of Bissell Garden 

 Harrow on page 228. 



FOR SALE AND WANTED 



READ BEZZO'S Import Bulb Advertisement on 

 Page 199. 



HARDWOOD ASHES— Best Fertilizer in use- 

 George Stevens. Peterborough, Ont. 



PIP* FOB SALE -All sizes for steam, hot water 

 heating, posts, green house construction work, 

 etc., very cheap. Send for price list stating 

 your needs.— Imperial Waste and Metal Co., 

 7 Queen Stree t, Montreal. 



GINSENG SEED, 1910, for sale, from five-year 

 plants free of blight. Supply limited— N. Wil- 

 son, Vittoria, Ont. 



CHARLES ERNEST WOOLVERTON, Landscape 

 Gardener, Grimsby. Designs parks, house 

 grounds, lawns, fruit and flower gardens, ad- 

 vises patrons on suitable fruit and flowering 

 trees and shrubs either from forest or nursery, 

 and furnishes gardeners to ca rry out his plans. 



WANTED — Position a* packing foreman 

 for apple harvest. Experienced in Box and 

 Barrel Packing. References if desired. Apply 

 stating wages, etc., to Box B. Canadian Horti- 

 culturist, Peterborough, Ont. 



FARMS FOR SALE 



NIAGARA DISTRICT FRUIT FARMS.-Before 

 buying, it will pay you to consult me. 1 make 

 a specialty of fruit and grain farms— ifelvin 

 Gayman St. Catharines. 



100 ACRES ADJOINING LIVE TOWN with Col- 

 legiate Institute, good shipping facilities, sixty- 

 five acres apple orchard in splendid condition; 

 soil well adapted to fruit growing; large house 

 with furnace, bath and electric light, two good 

 barns. Would subdivide into two parts if de- 

 sired. Price, twenty thousand.— F. J. Wat- 

 son. 1275 Queen W-. Toronto. 



ASK DAWSON. He knows. 



IF YOU WANT to sell a farm consult me. 



IF YOU WANT to buy a farm consult me. 



I HAVE some of the best Fruit, Stock, Grain 

 and Dairy Farms on my list at right prices. 



H. W. DAWSON, Ninety Colborne Street, Toronto. 



SALMON ARM, Shuswap Lake, B.C. has the 

 finest fruit and dairy land in B.C. No irriga- 

 tion necessary mild winters, moderate sum- 

 mers, no billiards, or high winds; delightful 

 climate; enormous yield? of fruit, vegetables 

 and hay; good fishing; fine boating amidst the 

 most beautiful scenery, and the Salmon Arm 

 fruit has ralized 25 cents per box more than 

 other fruit in B.C. Prices of land moderate, 

 and terms to suit. Apply to F. 0. Haydock, 

 Salmon Arm, B.C. 



IF YOU WOULD LIKE to purchase a site for 

 a home and fruit farm on good, suitable soil 

 situated in the most favorable and dependable 

 olimate in Canada, get Louth-Clinton Peach 

 Area free information and ground floor prices 

 for properties in the coming locality for most 

 profitable fruit growing. Don't miss present 

 bargains— forty thousand mansion and farm 

 for only thirty thousand, a fifty acres for ten 

 thousand; others large and small. Enquire 

 about them. State what you want. W H 

 Brand, Jordan Station. Ont. 



said four marks which is used on the paid 

 package." 



Material for Barrels. — The standard bar- 

 rel must be large enough to contain at least 

 96 quarts of fruit. Smaller barrels should 

 not be exhibited. The barrel in general 

 use in Ontario has staves 30 inches in 

 length. In Nova Scotia the staves are 28 

 inches long. The dimensions called for in a 

 standard Lb'ik! of minimum size are: Be- 

 tween heads, -6% inches wide, inside meas- 

 urement ; head diameter, 17 inches, inside 

 measurement; middle diameter, 18% inches, 

 inside measurement. The barrel generally 

 used in Ontario is 27% inches between the 

 heads, 17 inches in diameter at the head, 

 and with a middle diameter at the bilge 

 of 19% inches. A good barrel should have 

 sixteen staves and averaging 9-16 jointing, 

 cut five to two inches and averaging four 

 inches in width at the bilge, and be free 

 from large knots or shakes. The head should 

 not be less than one-half an inch in thick- 

 ness, dressed clean and sound. The hoops 

 should be about 1 3-8 inches in width and 

 eight in number. The barrel should be new 

 and clean. 



Material for Boxes. — The box should be 

 made of material strong enough to with- 

 stand handling in transportation. The 

 heads or end pieces should be each of one 

 piece of wood and not less than three-quar- 

 ters of an inch thick. The sides also should 

 be each of one piece and not less than three- 

 eighths of an inch thick. The top and bot- 

 tom boards may be one or two pieces, pref- 

 erably two. but not more than one-quarter 

 of an inch in thickness. They must be thin, 

 so that they will bend readily when the box 

 is closed. There should be two cleats each 

 for the top and bottom. Dovetailed boxes 

 are not desirable. The standard box must 

 be used. This is 10 inches deep, 11 inches 

 wide, and 20 inches long, inside measure- 

 ment. 



Pressing. — Apples are often over-pressed. 

 If the barrel is racked well there need not 

 be much pressing. The proportion of fruit 

 tint is injured by pressing will be evident 

 when the barred is opened. The less fruit 

 that has been injured by pressing the bet- 

 ter the barrel has been packed, provided, 

 always, that the pressing given has been 

 sufficient to secure the required firmness. 

 Barrels loosely packed frequently show more 

 injury to the fruit through shaking than 

 barrels over-pressed. 



Racking. — All barrels of apples should be 

 racked when being packed, so that the fruit 

 will settle, and the packer thus be able to 

 tail his barrel so that the fruit will carry 

 well. When the barrel is opened the fulness 

 or slackness will indicate how well the fruit 

 has been racked. Over-pressed fruit is 

 usually found when apples have not been 

 racked well. 



Solidity. — This may also be expressed by 

 the terms firmnes c and compactness. The 

 more solid the pack the better the fruit will 

 carry. 



Tailing. — By tailing is meant the putting 

 and placing of the last fruit into the bar- 

 rel. All that is necessary in good tailing 

 is to have the surface as level as possible 

 with, the stem end down when the apples 

 are pressed. The care in tailing will be 

 known when the barrel is open by the man- 

 ner in which the fruit has been bruised 

 when pressing. 



Items of Interest 



The fourteenth annual convention of the 

 Canadian Horticultural Association was 

 held in Ottawa August 9 to 11. This asso- 

 ciation is composed of professional garden- 

 ers, flower growers and retail florists. The 

 convention proved most successful, delegates 



being present from numerous points 

 throughout Ontario and Quebec and even 

 from Winnipeg. Mr. John Connon of Ham- 

 ilton, the president, presided. The follow- 

 ing officers were elected : President, A. C. 

 Wilshire, Montreal ; first vice president, W. 

 Muston, Davisville ; second vice president, 

 H. B. Cowan, Peterboro; secretary, J. 

 Luck, Cote des Neiges, Que; treasurer, C. 

 H. Janzen, Berlin, Ont. 



The annual meeting of the Ontario Gin- 

 seng Growers' Association will be held in 

 the Y.M.C.A. hall, 1087 Queen street West, 

 Toronto, on September 6, at 10 a.m. It is 

 expected that addresses will be delivered 

 •by Rev. D. E. Medd of Goderich, P. Men- 

 zies of Milton, W. Kilgour of Peterboro, J. 

 Fayer of Gait, J. Nichols of Mono Mills and 

 Chas. Leggatt of Kingsville. Growers of 

 ginseng are invited to attend. The secre- 

 tary is P. Wilson, 283 Evelyn avenue, To- 

 ronto. 



It is reported in Nova Scotia that the 

 Colonial Corporations, Limited," a Lon- 

 don and Montreal company, proposes to or- 

 ganize a subsidiary company to be known 

 as "The Nova Scotia Fruit Estates, Lim- 

 ited," with a capital of one million dollars, 

 for the purpose of acquiring fruit lands and 

 engaging in the business of raising apples 

 and other fruits, in Cornwallis Valley. It 

 is stated that this company is now in com- 

 munication with the shareholders of the 

 Hillcrest Orchards, at Kentville and other 

 property owners in the valley, for that pur- 

 pose. 



A New Hydrangea 



(Snowball Hydrangea — Hills of Snow) 



The Hydrangea has always been a favorite 

 garden shrub. We offer a new one which 

 possesses, in addition to its well known quali- 

 ties, the merit of flowering all summer and is 

 perfectly hardy. Catalogue containing descrip- 

 tion of it and the best Trees, Shrubs and 

 Hardy Plants free on request. 



DUPUY 81 FERGUSON 



38 Jacques Cartier Square 



MONTREAL 



Barn 

 Roofing 



Fire, Lidhtninrf 

 Rust and Storm Proof 



Durable and 

 Ornamental 



Let us know the size of any roof 

 you are thinking of covering and we 

 will make you an interesting offer. 



Metallic Roofing Go. 



Limited 



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