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THE CANADIAN H E T I C U L T U R I S T 



March, 1909 



New Horticultural Societies 



Through the efforts ol Mr J H. Hare, the 

 district representative of the Ontario De- 

 partment of Agriculture at Whitby, new 

 horticultural societies have h. en organized 

 at Oshawa and Whitby. At the organiza- 

 tion of the Oshawa society, Mr. A. Barber, 

 of Bowmanville, introduced horticultural 



society work to the members and at the 

 Whitby organization, Mr. J. Lockie Wilson, 

 Superintendent of Horticultural Societies, 

 Toronto, pointed out the good that such a 

 society might do its members, and also to 

 the community in which it is located. 



Officers for the Oshawa society were 

 elected as follows: Pres., Mr. W. H. Ton- 

 kin; 1st vice-pres., Mr. R. J. Cowan; 2nd 



'^/Te EDIS ON 

 PHONOGRAM 



WE want everyone who has not yet 

 experienced the delight of owning 

 and listening to an Edison Phonograph 

 to go to some dealer today and hear the 

 Edison Phonograph play. There is only 

 one way to know how good the Edison 

 Phonograph is and that is to hear it. 

 Nothing can describe it. 



The Edison Phonograph reproduces all sounds, and espe- 

 cially the sounds of the human voice and the music of in- 

 struments, so marvelously that you would be amazed at it 

 as a scientific invention if you had not become so used to 

 its wonderful work. 



The Edison Phonograph makes all music available in your 

 home. The cost is trifling. You can buy it at once for a low 

 price or on the instalment plan, pasnngr a little at a time, 

 and begin to enjoy it at once. The point is to get it today. 

 There is an Edison dealer near you who will be glad to 

 show you how it works and let you hear some of the many 

 varied selections which have been prepared for it. 



Edison Amberol Records 



These are the new Records which have just been made to play on the 

 Edison Phonograph. They play more than twice as long as the old ones and 



glay far better. This is the last great discovery of Mr. Edison for the bene- 

 t of his favorite invention, the Edison Phonograph, and for your benefit if 

 you are wise enough to get an Edison Phonograph with the Amberol attach- 

 ment at once. Aji Edison Phonograph with the Amberol attachment plays 

 both Records, the old two-minnte Records and the new four-minute Records. 

 There are thousands of selections already made up in 

 the old Records which you can enjoy, ana there will be 

 many new ones every month in both the old Records 

 and the Amberol Records. 



FREE. Go to your dealer or write to us today and cet 

 these books, Thi Catalocoi of Edison Pbonogkaphs 

 as well as Coupliti Record Catalogue. Supplemental 

 Catalogue and the Phomocsam, which tell about aJI the 

 Records, old and new. 



We Desire Good Lire Dealers to sell Edison Phono. 

 vraphs in every town where we are not now well represented. ^^ ^ 



Dealers bavins established stores should write at once to CVmmai O fmtm . 



National Phonograph Campanjr,121 Lakeside Are., Orange,NJ.,U.SJL 



vice-pres., Mrs. L. C. Smith; and a board 

 of nine directors. The Whitby oflBcers are as 

 follows: Pres.. Mr. E. Edmund Starr; 1st 

 vice-pres.. Dr. A. Adams; 2nd vice-pres., Mr. 

 G. H. Hogarth; sec.-treas., Mr. W. A. Wil- 

 cox; auditors, Messrs. Jos. White and Geo. 

 Robb; and a board of eight directors. 



Short Course At Guelph 



A. J. Logsdail, Ontario Agricaltoral Collefe 



The short course in fruit growing given af 

 the Ontario Agricultural College, Jan. 26 to 

 Feb. 5, was replete with valuable informa- 

 tion. Those in attendance were greatly 

 pleased with the manner in which it was 

 carried out, credit for which was due largely 

 to Mr. J. W. Crow, of the college. 



In an address on "Locations, Sites and 

 Soils for Fruit Orchards," Mr Harold Jones, 

 of Maitland, brought out valuable points. 

 Climatic conditions are modulated by the 

 proximity of large bodies of water, deep 

 water having a greater effect than shallow 

 water. This modulating effect might extend 

 from one to five miles inland, or to a height 

 of some 200 feet above water level. Orchards 

 should not be set on low ground where thf 

 cold air from surrounding areas would col- 

 lect and settle at night, such places being 

 always more susceptible to late spring frosts 

 than higher ground. For apple trees a 

 clayey or sandy loam, naturally drained, is 

 the most suitable, but if the soil should 

 indicate that it is in the least bit incapable 

 of self drainage, artificial methods should be 

 made use of, preferably before planting the 

 trees. The old idea of planting on a N. or 

 N.W. slope to avoid sunscald, is now being 

 disregarded, because the lower headed trees 

 are less susceptible to this form of injury. 

 By a S. or S.W. slope a greater amount of 

 direct sunlight is obtained and the effect of 

 cold north winds is guarded against. Light 

 soils freeze deeper than heavy soils; there- 

 fore, the roots of trees on such soils should 

 be protected by either cover crops or a sup- 

 ply of humus in the form of some kind of 

 litter. 



Mr. W. H. Day, of the physics department 

 of the college, gave an interesting lecture 

 upon drainage and another upon the conser- 

 vation of moisture in soils. In concluding 

 he referred to several practical examples 

 where farms in Ontario had greatly in- 

 creased their annual output; in one in- 

 stance, the resulting increase in crop paying 

 for the drainage operations the same season 



Mr. W. T. Macoun, of the C. E. F., Ot 

 tawa, gave an interesting address upon th 

 propagation of fruit trees and plants. Hu 

 considered the newer method of low-headed 

 trees to be a distinct improvement on the 

 older system of high-heading, low-headed 

 trees being more easily sprayed and pruned, 

 the crop more easily and economically gath- 

 ered, and the trunks and main branches of 

 such trees being less likely to suffer from 

 sunscald or splitting in stormy weather. 

 He also stated that nurserymen would grow 

 a number of trees in any particular way de- 

 sired for their customers, if the orders were 

 placed sufficiently early (say two years or 

 even three) before the trees were required. 

 Mr. Macoun emphasized the fact that many 

 fruit men might, with but little trouble, 

 raise their own stock, by which method they 

 would know their young trees were true to 

 name and taken from parent stock of good 

 quality. 



A short lecture upon the "Selection of 

 Nursery Stock," was given by Mr. J. W. 

 Crow. He emphasized the necessity for 

 growers to know just what they were buy- 

 ing, and that to be led away by substituted 

 stock, which was "just as good," often 

 meant failure to the grower. Only a few 

 varieties are suitable for any one locality 



