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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



September, 1907 



Preservation of Fresh Fruit 



Considerable interest is being taken in Mel- 

 bourne over the invention of a local engineer, 

 who dairtis to have perfected an entirely new 

 and inexpensive method for the preservation for 

 a long period of fruit and other perishable produce, 

 reports Mr. D. H. Ross, Canadian Commercial 

 Agent in Australasia. Very satisfactory experi- 

 ments have been conducted for nearly a year, 

 and as a result patents are now in contempla- 

 tion for all countries interested in the storage 

 and export of fresh fruit. The inventor states 

 that the deterioration in fruit is largely due to 

 evaporation, and he has devised a simple process 

 by which the evaporation is greatly retarded. 

 The eyperiments have been conducted in a 

 chamber formed of insulated walls and roof, the 

 special feature of which is a ventilator that 

 saturates the air which passes through, thus 

 giving such a humid atmosphere that the fruit 

 cannot throw off moisture. 



Fruit stored under such conditions for over 



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six months opened up in splendid condition. 

 The merits claimed for the invention are its 

 reliability, insignificant expense and simple 

 operation, for no costly refrigerating machinery 

 has to be provided. The process has been 

 strongly recommended by a responsible officer 

 in the Victorian Government's Department of 

 Agriculture. There seems little reason to doubt 

 that much more will be heard of this invention 

 in the near future. Developments will be care- 

 fully watched and commented upon in a future 

 report from this Canadian commercial agency. 



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VV/ANTED — Persons to grow mushrooms for 

 " us at home; waste space in cellar, garden 

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Well-Kno-wn Gardener 



A man well-known to the vegetable trade of 

 Ontario is Mr. T. Wistow, of London, the subject 

 of the accompanying engraving. Mr. Wistow 

 came to Canada from Sheffield, Eng., in 1882. 

 For some time he worked at the trade of a steel- 

 worker, but for the last 23 years he has been 

 a market gardener and florist 



Being a firm believer in organization of growers 

 Mr. Wistow has been a member of the Garden- 

 ers' and Florists' Associations of London since 

 its inception. For seven years he was its secre- 

 tary-treasurer, and for the last ten years (with 

 his colleague, Mr. T. Ball) has represented the 

 association on the agricultural committee of the 

 western fair. When the association decided to 

 affiliate with the Ontario Vegetable Growers' 

 Association last spring, Mr. Wistow expressed 

 his intention of resigning office, but was urgently 

 requested to take the position of secretary- 

 treasurer for the new organization. He was 

 elected also a director of the Ontario Vegetable 

 Growers' Association and its vice-president. 



At his home in London East, Mr. Wistow is 

 working 10 acres of garden land. Being a 

 believer in securing quality before quantity, 

 he grows a general crop. In his own words, "I 

 do not care much for the specialty business. 



Mr. T. Wistow 



If vegetables are grown on a large scale, there is ' 

 a tendency to lower the price of the article 

 produced." 



Would some of your western readers kindly ; 

 tell the prospects for market gardening in 

 Vancouver or Victoria, B.C? Reply through the 

 columns of The Can.-^dian Horticulturist. — 

 W.A.B. 



I was much pleased with a sample copy of 

 The Canadian Horticulturist received a day 

 or two ago. If I had known of your paper, I 

 should have subscribed before. — J. E. Houghton, 

 Crawford Bay, B.C. 



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The surfaces are all sufficiently flexible to allow for the usual shrinkage 

 of the fruit in transit. 



The economy to be effected in storage room, and the convenience in 

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