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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



May, 1908 



FOR SALE AND WANT 

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GARDENER, GOOD REFERENCES.— Life experi- 

 ence in all branches, English, age 40, seeks 

 situation with gentleman. Apply Box W, Ca- 

 nadian Horticulturist, Peterboro. 



MR. CHARLES ERNEST WOOLVERTON, Grims- 

 by, Ontario, landscape architect, parks, ceme- 

 teries, pleasure, school and home grounds laid 

 out, surveys made. Working drawings to a 

 scale so that any gardener can work them 

 out. Terms very reasonable. 



A MILLION STRAWBERRY PLANTS for sale, 

 not bought from dealers, but grown on my 

 own farm last year. Fifty-five varieties. New 

 Highland, Three W's, Victor, Wonder, Thomp- 

 son s No. 2, President, • Morningstar, Abington, 

 Almo, Governor Rollins, and others, and all 

 the leading old varieties. If you want plants 

 this year that will please you when they 

 arrive, and please you better still when they 

 fruit, order Downham's. They have pleased 

 others and will please you. It will pay you to 

 get my free catalogue before you buy, ready to 

 mail now. Eaepberry and Blackberry plants, 

 and Seed Potatoes. John Downham, Strathroy, 

 Ont. 



FRUIT GROWERSI Drain your land and dou- 

 ble your income. This may seem exaggerated 

 but it's a fact. Use Doylg's tile. Estimates 

 given. E. J. Doyle, Owen Sound. 



SEND YOUR ADDRESS for Ust of strawberry 

 plants, also red and black raspberry plants 

 and seed potatoes. E. 0. Orysler, St. George, 

 Ont. 



FOR SALE— Six No. 8 Gurney Hot Water Boilers 

 in good condition, suitable for private house 

 or greenhouse work. Apply Stevenson & Mal- 

 colm Co., Guelph, Ont. 



GREENHOUSE FOR SALE-Length, 42 ft.; width. 

 18 ft.; hinged double glass windows on each 

 side, 5 top ventilators with floor stand and 

 gear, equipped with a No. 3 Daisy boiler, and 

 6 run of 4-inch pipe on each side. Apply Box 

 G, Canadian Horticulturist. 



Root Maggots 



Editor, The Canadian Horticulturist — 

 In the April number of The Canadian 

 Horticulturist, Dr. Fletcher, in an article 

 on root maggots, stated that there is no 

 practical remedy known for this pest. I 

 have been fighting it for the last lo years 

 or more, and have found two remedies, 

 which I will give for the benefit of your 

 many readers. 



About seven years, ago I read an article 

 by Miss Ormerod of England, in which it 

 was said that deep planting of onions was a 

 cure for maggots. As I planted quite a lot 

 of multipliers, I tried different depths, and 

 found that deep-planted ones were worse 

 than those on the surface. This gave me 

 the idea of planting on ridges. 



The following two years I ridged all my 

 ground, and put the sets on top. At the 

 first hoeing, I pulled the soil away fron^ 

 the bulb, and never saw the sign of a 

 maggot. The next year I planted in the 

 level again, and fully two-thirds were at- 

 tacked by maggots. I pulled the soil away 

 from them, clean to the roots and, as soon 

 as the bulb got good and dry, the mag- 

 gots disappeared from the onion patch, 

 only to attack my cabbages and cauliflow- 

 ers. They attacked these even more vigor- 

 ously, sometimes making a clean sweep of 

 the rows, and I thought that I would have 

 to quit early growing. 



1 tried everything that I could hear of, 

 until one of my neighbors told me that he 

 knew of an old man who always put a 

 match in with the plants when he put them 

 in the ground. As I could not procure any 



Northern Grown Trees 



Apple. Pear, Plum, Cherry, Peach. Grapes, Small Fruits,' 

 Oeciduousand Evergreen Ornamentals, Roses, Flowering 

 Shrubs, Climbers, etc. Specialties: Mammoth Dewberry 

 and Wismer's Dessert Apple. Catalogue Free; it tells, 

 the whole story. ; 



J. H. WISMER, Narseryman. Part Eltln, Ontario 



of the old time sulphur matches, I made up 

 my mind to try the sulphur alone, and was 

 rewarded for my trouble by not a single 

 cabbage or cauliflower, around which sul- 

 phur was placed, being attacked. Put the 

 sulphur close to the stem. One teaspoonful 

 is enough for one hundred plants. — Edward 

 Lane, Gait, Ont. 



King Edward Strawberry 



Editor, The Ca.nadian Horticulturist— 

 In an article in The Canadian Horticul- 

 turist, Mr. Stevenson of Guelph, said that 

 he got King Edward strawberry from a Mr. 

 Millei of Ohio, who claims to be the orig- 

 inator. If jVir Stevenson had taken sec- 

 ond thought, he would have seen that an 

 American citizen would not give the name 

 of King Edward to anything that is good. 



i"hi£ variety was originated in Gait, and 

 I gave it the name of King Edward, short- 

 ly after the King was crowned. It de- 

 serves all that Mr. Stevenson says about it, 

 and a little more. I consider it an ideal 

 one to use for pollinating imperfect-flowered 

 varieties. It is ahead of the Williams, which 

 originated near Brantford. — Edward Lane, 

 Gait, Ont. 



Send photographs for publication in THE 

 Canadian Horticulturist. 



The following letter is an indication of 

 the general interest that is being taken in 

 the new spray fluids : "W. S. Spark, Mana- 

 ger, Messrs. Wm. Cooper & Nephews, Man- 

 ning Chambers, Toronto. — We find that we 

 shall want more V2 Fluid than you have 

 ordered for us, so that, in addition to the 

 300 gallons, which we presume is now en 

 route, we would ask you to cable your 

 people to ship us immediately, via C.P.R., 

 400 one-gallon drums, and 20 five-gal- 

 lon drums, and have it rushed through by 

 wire tracer as quickly as possible. — (Sign- 

 ed), E. G. Prior & Co., Ltd.. Victoria, 

 B.C." 



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