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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



October, 1909 '. 



long distances Colborne district is ship- 

 ping a first class eight-hoop barrel. Some 

 apples, arriving at temperature 70 and ov- 

 er in tox cars, would be better in refriger- 

 ator iced cars that are arriving much cool- 



Quebec 



An organization to be known as "The 

 Quebec Vegetable Growers' Association" 

 was formed at Macdonald College on Sept. 

 8. About 30 growers were present. The 

 executive will hold a meeting soon to com- 

 plete details. The following oflftcers were 

 elected : Hon. pres., J. L. Decarie, Minis- 

 ter of Agriculture for Quebec; Hon. vice- 

 presidents, Dr. Jas. W. Robertson and Robert 

 Brodie; pres., Paul Wattiez ; 1st vice-pres.. 

 Jack McEvoy; 2nd vice-pres., J. B. Bey- 

 ries; sec.-treas., Anatole Decarie, 397 De- 



carie Ave., Notre Dame de Grace; exec, 

 com., Prof W. S. Blair, F. Lariviere, Jas. 

 Clark, Jos. Deguire, John Nesbitt, D. Mc- 

 Meekin. 



The members of the association are: Prof. 

 W. S. Blair and J. F. Monroe, Macdonald 

 College; John Nesbitt, Jack McEvoy and 

 M. McEvoy, Petite Cote; F. Lariviere, H. 

 Boyer, Amedie Lecavalier, St. Laurent ; Ro- 

 bert Brodie and Anatole Decarie, Notre 

 Dame de Grace; Paul Wattiez and James 

 Clark, Outremont; D. McMeekin, Valley- 

 field; Jos. Deguire, Alp. Goyer, Paul Goyer, 

 Antoine Goyer, Edward Goyer and Oct. 

 de Repentigny, Cote des Neiges ; R. Jack 

 &Sons, Chateauguay ; A. Ferguson, Montreal ; 

 Placide de Repentigny, Montreal West; 

 Jos. des Lauriers, Cote St. Francois ; J. B. 

 Beyries, Cote St. Paul ; Remi Goyer, Coto 

 Vertu, St. Laurent; Wm. Williams, Ste 

 Anne de Bellevuo. 



The Washboard 

 Ruins Clothes 



Take a new shirt. Soil it well I 



Then soap it, and rub the stains out of it on a 

 Washboard. 



Do this six times. Then look at the hems, collar 

 and cuff edges and the button holes closely. 



You'll find them all badly frayed, ripped, thinne:", 

 worn out more than from three months' hard 

 steady tse. 



Half the life of the garment gone— eaten up by 

 the washboard. 



Shirt cost a dollar, say — washboard takes 50 cento 

 of wear out of it — you get what's left. 



Why don't you cut out the Washboard? Use a 

 "1900 Gravity" instead? It drives the water through 

 the clothes like a force pump. It takes out all the 

 stains, in half the time, without wearing a single 

 thread, or cracking a button. 



No rubbing, scrubbing, wearing, nor tearing the 

 clothes against a hard metal Washboard. That 

 costs twice as much for hard work, and wears out 

 twice as many clothes in a year. 



Try the "1900 Gravity" for four washings! Won't 

 cost you a cent to try it either. You write to me 

 for a "1900 Gravity" and I'll send it to any reliable 

 person without a cent of deposit, or a cent of risk 

 on their part. 



I'll pay the freight, too, so that you may test my 

 offer entirely at my expense. Use it a month free 

 of charge. 

 If you like it then you may keep it. 

 If you don't like it, send it hack to me, at my 

 expense. 



It you keep it you pay for it out of the work and 

 wear it saves you— at say, 50 cents a week. Re- 

 member, it washes clothes in half the time they 

 can be washed by hand, and it does this by simp'y 

 driving soapy water swiftly through their threads 



It works like a spinning top and it runs as easy 

 as a sewing machine. 



Even a child ten years old can wash with it as 

 easily as a strong woman. You may prove thi.s for 

 yourself and at my expense. 



How could I make a cent out of that, deal If the '1900 Gravity" wouldn't actually 

 wash clothes in half the time with half the wear, and do all that I say it will? 



I'll take it back then. If you think you can get along without it. And. I'll pay the 

 freight both ways out of my own pocket. 



I'll send the "1900 Gravity" free for a month anywhere so you can prove it without 

 risking a penny. 



Write to me to-day for particulars. If you say so, I'll send on the machine for a 

 month, so that you can be using it in a week or ten days. 



More than 200,000 people are row using our "1900 Gravity" Washers. Write to-day to 

 me, personally. C. H. X. BACH, Manager, The "1900" Washer Co., 357 Yonge Street, 

 Toronto, Ont. 



The above offer is not good in Toronto or Montreal, and suburbs— special arrangements 

 are made for these districts. 1912 



New Brunswick 



J. C. Gilman 



The apple crop is decidedly light with 

 many undersized and wormy. The Mcin- 

 tosh is promising better than many other 

 varieties and good samples will bring good 

 prices. First early apples sold from $3 to 

 $5 a barrel. Duchess are now selling in the 

 local market for $2 a barrel, package re- 

 turned. 



Fredericton Exhibition was good and will 

 do much to encourage the setting of more 

 trees and the giving of better care to those 

 already set. The outlook for the thorough- 

 going fruit grower in New Brunswick is 

 good.— J. G. G. 



Annapolis Valley East, N. S. 



Ennice Watts 



In some apple orchards, especially when 

 cultivation and fertilizing have been ne- 

 glected, many blossoms have set together, 

 giving rise to bunches of mal-formed and 

 tiseless fruit. This is often characteristic of 

 Ribstons, hut this year it is particularly no- 

 ticeable with the Blenheims and other vari- 

 eties. Plums and pears carry abundant 

 crops. All through this locality, there are 

 good cover crops of vetches in orchards. 



In the locality of Waterville, tomatoes 

 have done exceedingly well. The late frosts 

 have not damaged them, and there are 

 quantities yet to harvest, but there is much 

 difficulty in obtaining plum baskets, which 

 are used here for sending tomatoes to 

 market. In Berwick, the tomato crop of 

 some prominent growers is a complete fail- 

 ure, owing to disease. The price has grad- 

 ually dropped from $1.25 a basket to 20c. 

 but even then they are more profitable and 

 prolific than potatoes. 



Annapolis Valley West N. S. 



R. J. Metsenger 



Even the most sanguine, are now speaking 

 more moderately of the aople crop pros- 

 pects. The crop of the province seems to be 

 of average quantity and fruit is clean, but 

 there will be a greater proportion of No, 

 2's and 3's than in previous years, on ac- 

 count of the dry weather which still contin- 

 ues. 



Fruit, in spite of the warm summer days 

 and dry weather, does not seem to be rip- 

 ening any earlier than usual, Gravensteins 

 "-ere picked from Sept. 12th to 20th. while 

 Kings and Ribstons do not show ripeness 

 in any degree, at this writing (Sept. 21.) 

 The writer has seen many trees of Bald- 

 wins that at this date have at least 90 ner 

 cent, under 2 inches in diameter. While, 

 to show the benefits of thinning this sum- 

 mer, I noted esoecially the effect of thin- 

 ning on a Baldwin in one corner of my orch- 

 ard. This tree in its bearing years has al- 

 ways been very full of very small apples, 

 averaging about 80 ner cent. No. 2's and 

 smaller. This year the results of thinning 

 show Tit) a full crop, with probably 40 per 

 cent. No. 2's and smaller. 



Our cover illustration this month shows 

 the general collection of fruits that was ex- 

 hibited at the Canadian National Exhibi- 

 tion, Toronto, by Mr. W. H. Bunting on 

 behalf of the St. Catharines Horticultura' 

 .Society. This display won first prize, and 

 this was the fourth consecutive year that the 

 St. Catharines society secured first place 

 for a similar display at this exhibition. 

 Tn its exhibit this year, there were over 

 100 varieties of fruit, comprising apples, 

 pears, plums, peaches, grapes and other 

 kinds. 



