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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



December, 1909 



is the perfect fluid beef — the 

 crowning achievement of the Com- 

 pany that originated concentrated 

 beef extracts more than forty years 

 ago. 



Try it to-day — then you will use 

 it all the winter. 



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This picture shows the 

 Horse Power Spra- 

 motor spraying vineyard. 



If stand pipe hits a post 

 it folds back behind rig and 

 rights itself, each side inde- 

 pendently. Has auto, con- 

 trol for height, width and 

 direction of nozzles. 12- 

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 protector. 



The Horse Power 



Spratnotor can be rigged for potatoes, orchard or weed destruction. Send 

 for free particulars and free Treatise on Crop Diseases. Agents Wanted. 



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1386 Ring Street 

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COMING EVENTS 



Under thU heading, notices of forthcominc 

 exhibitions and meetings of horticultural im- 

 portance will be published. Send the infor- 

 mation as long in advance as possible. 



CONVENTIONS. 



Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island Fruit 

 Growers' Association Dec. 2-3. 



Kentville, N.S., Nova Scotia Fruit Growers' 

 Association Dec. 8-9. 



Omaha, Neb., American Breeders' Associ- 

 ation, Dec. 8-10 



Macdonald College, Que., Quebec Pomologi- 

 cal Society Dec. 8-9. 



Victoria, British Columbia Fruit Growers' 

 Association Jan. 28. 



EXHIBITIONS. 



Denver, Colo., Colorado National Apple Ex- 

 position Jan. 3-8. 



Horticultural Societies' Grant 



The need for an increase in their grant 

 from the government is telt by the horticul- 

 tural societies of Ontario. At the conven- 

 tion of the Ontario Horticultural Associ- 

 ation in Toronto last month a resolution 

 was passed asking the government to in- 

 crease the grant by $5,000. The present 

 grant is $8,000. The following letter sent 

 recently to Mr. J. Lockie Wilson of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Toronto, by Mr. 

 Thomas Natress, sec-treas. of the Amherst- 

 burg Horticultural Society, is typical of the 

 general feeling in this matter : 



"I am instructed to report to you as Sup- 

 erintendent of Horticultural Societies for 

 the province that the Horticultural Society 

 of Amherstburg, 90 members, in annual 

 session assembled, did, on Nov. 6, pass the 

 following resolution and order a copy there- 

 of forwarded to you with the request that 

 the matter be brought before the govern- 

 ment, viz., That, in the estimation of this 

 society, and in view of the importance of the 

 work of civic improvement being done by 

 local horticultural societies, and because of 

 the annually increasing number of these so- 

 cieties throughout the province, and the de- 

 veloping interest of the people ; the time 

 has come when the government of the 

 province of Ontario could, to the great ad- 

 vantage of the people, increase the 

 appropriation made for horticultural societ- 

 ies' use." 



A copy of the first report of the fruit 

 branch of the Department of Agriculture 

 of Ontario has been received. It is full 

 of useful information and contains many 

 illustrations of educational value. The re- 

 port has been well compiled and reflects 

 much credit upon Mr. P. \V. Hodgetts, 

 the director of the branch. It reviews the 

 work of the fruit branch for 1908 and in- 

 cludes reports from the experimental fruit 

 stations in the province. 



Messrs. Wm. Cooper & Nephews wish it 

 to be understood that they do not claim at 

 present to kill San Jose scale, and are not 

 selling their spray fluids for that purpose. 

 They have been most successful in dealing 

 with oyster-shell bark-louse this season and 

 have not had one complaint from their cus- 

 tomers as to the effectiveness of their fluids 

 in dealing with this orchard pest. No bet- 

 ter and cleaner fruit has been grown any- 

 where than in the Bowmanville district from 

 trees sprayed with V.I., V.2. and V.3. 

 Fluids. The results from the use of these 

 fluids this year have been most satisfactory. 



