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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



May, 1907 



Varieties for Otta-wa Valley 



Ed. The Canadian Horticulturist: I read 

 with much interest the article in The Canadian 

 Horticulturist for April on varieties for the 

 north by Mr. G. C. Caston. He states that 

 the Spy is a desirable variety and that grow- 

 ers cannot have too many of them. He also 

 states that Spy, Baldwin, R. I. Greening and 

 King, must be top-grafted on hardy stock. Fur- 

 ther, he states that Burbank is the best of the 

 Japan plums. Now, we consider ourselves in the 

 northern part of the fruit belt, and perhaps 

 more properly the far north. Mr. Caston's 

 letter may not apply to us; but, for fear that 

 some of the readers of The Canadian Horti- 

 culturist in the Ottawa Valley may be ad- 

 vised to plant some of the varieties listed in 

 Mr. Caston's article, I wish to say that his list 

 is of no value here. S])y will bear if top-grafted 

 on hardy stock, but it does not attain jierfec- 

 tion as it does along the great lakes. The 

 other varieties named are of no value whatever. 



We would advise the planting of Wolf River, 

 "Wealthy, Fameuse and Mcintosh Red, as we 

 can grow them to perfection, particularly 

 the latter, which is a fairly good annual bearer, 

 and the fruit brings from 50% to 75% more 

 ■money than Spys at their best. Of course, it 

 is necessary to spray them if i)erfect specimens 

 are desired, but we should spray orchards of 

 any variety if we wish to maintain good health 

 in the trees. There is no difliculty in getting 

 $5 a barrel for No. 1 Mcintosh Red. If a few 

 long keepers are wanted for home use (not for 

 market), we may plant Scott's Winter, Canada, 

 Baldwin, North-West Greening, Patten's Green- 

 ing or Milwaukee. As to raspberries, I may 

 -say that Herbert is perfectly hardy in 

 localities where Cuthbert will winter kill 3 

 years out of 5. The fruit is larger than Cuth- 

 bert, of better quality, just as attractive in 

 appearance and as good a shipiJer, and for the 

 last 3 years it has averaged at the Central 



Experiment Farm 5 times as large fruit as the 

 best other kinds on the market. Other ex- 

 perimenters have had equally as good results. 



In strawberries, I have tested about 150 

 varieties, and after several years' experience 

 I consider Bederwood, Senator Dunlap, Haver- 

 land, Sample, Parson's Beauty, Pocahontas, 

 Lovett, Marie and Buster the best general 

 purpose varieties. — W. J. Kerr, Ottawa, Ont. 



sold. He could also report on lots that were bad 

 on arrival. Such an arrangement would give 

 both the buyers and sellers more confidence in 

 each other, and should help to place the system 

 of sailing and buying apples on a tetter basis. 



SHould Cooperate 



A novel niethod of selling Canadian apples 

 to the market in Great Britain was suggested 

 to The Canadian Horticulturist not long 

 ago by Mr. Derbyshire, a member of the firm of 

 the North of England Fruit Brokers Co., Limited, 

 while he was on a visit to Canada. "Canadian 

 growers," said Mr. Derbyshire, "do not like 

 consigning their fruit to G. Britp'n under present 

 conditions, because, in the majority of cases, 

 they do not know the people to whom they are 

 consigning it, and they have no method of ascer- 

 taining after it reaches G. Britain if it sells for 

 the prices claimed. I would like to see more 

 coojjeration between the Canadian growers and 

 the British buyers, and would suggest that the 

 growers should unite and send a traveller to 

 England. A number of British buyers could 

 unite in the same way and keep a representa- 

 tive in Canada. 



"The groweis in Canada would have to have 

 enough capital to manage cooperative plants, 

 and they would have to look after the picking, 

 grading and shipping of the apples. The repre- 

 sentative of the British firms could visit these 

 ])acking hou.scs at frequent intervals and thus 

 give the British buyers assurance as to the qual- 

 ity of the fruit being packed and its condition 

 when it was shipped. Their representative in 

 Great Britain would be able to examine much of 

 the fruit on its arrival in Great Britain, and to 

 kee]) track of the prices at which most of it was 



Free Surveying for Drains 



During the past two seasons the Department 

 of Physics, at the O.A.C., Guelph, has been 

 endeavoring to emphasize the imi)ortance of 

 under drainage, and arrangements have Ijeen 

 made whereby its services are available to any- 

 one wishing advice in matters relating to drain- 

 age. They have full equipment for drainage 

 survey work, and when requested, visit a man's 

 place, survey his land, give him a map, showing 

 elevations of all parts surveyed, together with 

 location of drains, their grade de]>th, etc. 



There is no charge made for this work except 

 the travelling exjienses of one man, consisting of 

 railway fare, meals and cartage of instruments. 

 These expenses arc very light, as arrangements 

 have been made with the railway companies 

 whereby the surveyor can travel at one cent a 

 mile each way, i.e., a man living 50 miles from 

 Guelph would have an outlay of $1 for railway 

 fare and 25 or 50 cents for cartage ; one living 

 100 miles away, an outlay of S2 for railway fare 

 and 25 or 50 cents for cartage, and so on. On- 

 tario farmers should lake advantage of this 

 opportunity to secure such valuable service at 

 so litile cost. Address reciuests for assistance 

 or information to W. H. Day, Depl. of Physics, 

 O.A.C., Guelph. 



Mr. T B. Revett, Ontario Department of 

 Agriculture, says that most peach trees in the 

 Essex peninsula have been killed during the past 

 winter. Not only have the buds been destroyed, 

 but, in many orchards, whole trees have been 

 killed to the ground. Mr. Revett also said 

 that nursery stock in the vicinity of Strathroy 

 and at some other points has tjeen badly injured. 



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