THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



January, 1909 



be included in the weight for duty, 2 cents 

 per pound ; cranberries, plums and quinces, 

 25 per cent. ; peaches, weight of package 

 included, 1 cent per pound ; grapes, 2 cents 

 per pound; pears, apricots and nectarines, 

 50 cents per 100; apples, per barrel, three 

 boxes estimated as one barrel, 40 cents each. 

 MR. E. D. smith's OPINION 

 From a letter recently received from Mr. 

 E. D. Smith. Winona, Ont., I quote the 

 following: "The west is an outlet which 

 enables us to very largely increase, our 

 acreage in manv lines of fruit. Our chief 

 difficulties are the high express rates and 

 the low duties. If we had high duties or 

 low express rates we could capture nearly 

 the entire western trade for peaches and 

 plums which would amount to hundreds of 

 thousands of dollars annually, but betwixt 

 the low duties and the excessively high ex- 

 press rates we are seldom able to compete 

 with California peaches and plurrts laid 

 down there by freight under a low duty. In 

 grapes we have a high duty amounting to 

 practically 200 per cent. What is the con- 

 sequence? The consumers are able to buy 

 grapes as low as 1J4 cents a pound, so they 

 are not hurt Very badly bv the prohibitory 

 tariff. The consequence is; however, that 

 we are able to grow a sufficiently broad 

 acr'eage to supply the entire wants of the 

 Canadian public from ocean to ocean. That 

 is the way it should be in peaches and 

 plums. On articles such as grapes, pears 

 and apples, which we can lay down by 

 freight in the north-west, we have no diffi- 

 culty in competing except in the early part 

 of the season. Even in these fruits with 

 higher duties we would secure a greater 

 share of the market, which would mean our 

 ability to plant increased acres and not hurt 

 the consumer one iota if our fruits are in 

 the market." 



ESSENTIALLY FOR ONTARIO 



A careful summary of western market 

 conditions, competition and transportation 

 problems, cannot but lead one to the con- 

 clusion that the western market logically 

 belongs, in great measure at least, to On- 

 tario. It only remains for Ontario men to 

 come to an appreciation of the opportunities 

 which are opening to them in that vast new 

 country and to make united and intelligent 

 effort in order to secure their proper share 

 of that important trade. 



Gum on Peach Trees 



The alarming increase in the numTier of 

 gum exudations on peach trees in the Nia- 

 gara district during the past season brought 

 about an investigation into its causes by 

 Mr. L. Ceasar, O. A. C, Guelph. It was 

 found that brown rot of the peach and plum 

 is the chief cause. The following ways of 

 preventing the trouble are therefore sug- 

 gested : 



1. Be sure to remove as soon as possible 

 all mummied fruit, not only from peach 

 trees but also from plum trees near by. 

 These should be collected and burned and 

 not left on the ground. Such fruit should 

 be destroyed each season as soon as possi- 

 ble after picking has been completed. 



2. In the spring of the year prune off all 

 diseased twigs and open up the trees to the 



■ sunlight and air. 



3. Spray with lime-sulphur before the 

 buds open. Cover every part of the tree 

 thoroughly. 



4. Thin the fruit. Where peachts touch 

 each other the rot gets a "better chance *o 

 thrive. 



Many American peach growers claim to 

 have done much to keep off the rot by sum- 



mer spraying with the commer<.ial lime- 

 sulphur or with the self-boiled lime-sulphur 

 of half the ordinary strength 

 Where trees have been badiy attacked 



this year it will pay to spray them this fall 

 with Bordeaux mixture to destroy the 

 spores in crevices and in thp old diseased 

 parts. 



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Mr. Edison has produced in the 

 Amberol Record a Phonograph 

 Record that plays twice as long 

 as the regular Edison Record 



This has not been done by making the Record larger or 

 longer, but by engraving more than twice as many lines to 

 the inch as on the regular Record. Thus Amberol Records 

 can be used in the standard sizes of Edison Phonographs by 

 the addition of a simple attachment or gear. 

 Edison Amberol Records not only play longer than any 

 other Record now made, but they play better, their tone 

 quality being richer, clearer and more delicate than has been 

 possible in the past. 



To Play Amberol Records on Your Present Phonograph 

 requires an attachment comprising a change gear and a new 

 reproducer. Your dealer has this attachment, will put one 

 on your Phonograph at a moderate cost, and 

 will explain it to you. 



We will be elad to send to anyone, however, « booklet describitic ' 

 the new attachment, describing the Amberol Records, giving a list 

 of the music now available on these Records and giving all the other 

 information necessary to make it possible for you to get more than 

 twice as much enjoyment out of your Edison Phonograph as you are 

 now getting. 



We Desire Good, Lire Dealers to ael] Edison Phonograph* in 

 every town where we are not now well represented. Dealers having /^ n Pi . 

 established stores should write at once to c.'rfii«wi» \x uaim.. 



National Phonograph Company, 121 Lakeiide Avanua, Orange, N. J., U.S. A. 



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