90 THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



THE FEUIT CANNING BUSINESS. 



Mr. J. J. Thomas, horticultural Editor of the Country Gentleman, 



says in that paper : — 



'' We visited the canning establisliment of the Niagara Preserving 

 Company, and obtained from F. Gebbie, one of the proprietoi-s who gives 

 constant and efficient attention to the work, the following figures showing 

 the quantity of some of the fruits and vegetables canned the last and pi'esent 

 season. About two million cans are required for one year's work. In 1879 

 30,000 cases (two dozen per case) of tomatoes were canned, 15,000 cases of 

 green corn, 7,000 of beans, and 7,000 bushels of apples. The present season 

 2, .500 cases of cherries have been canned, 2,800 of Blackberries, 130,000 

 quarts of strawberries, and 1,000 bushsls of plums. The work requires 

 400 hands. Several machines wera in operation for removing the corn 

 from the cob at the rate of one a second, or a bushel in a minute and a 

 lialf ; and another machine enabled the attni lants to fill 40 cans per minute. 

 The company engages of farmers a large portion of their sup])lies, 3-50 acres 

 of corn being i-aised this year and 160 acres of tomatoes. About 200 acres 

 of tomatoes are required each year, yielding about ten tons per acre. 



How many fruit canning establishments have we in Ontario that 

 do a like business ? And yet this is but one of the canning establish- 

 ments of Niagara County situate at Lockport, N. Y. 



PERPETUAL BLOOMING PELARGONIUMS. 



"Who has not wished that these lovely flowers, the Pelargoniums, 

 could be had all the year round? If they could only be persuaded to 

 bloom at all seasons, as do their sisters the scarlet Geraniums, what 

 treasures they would be. They are gorgeous indeed while they last, 

 but it is only for two or three mouths in the early spring, and then 

 their beauty is gone for the year. It is therefore with great pleasure 

 that we now chronicle the arrival of a variety of Pelargonium that 

 blooms as freely and continuously as any scarlet Geranium. 



Mr. John G. Heinl, Elorist, of Terre Haute, Indiana, has introduced 

 a new strain of Pelargoniums which bloom almost constantly the year 

 round, and is especially fine during the winter and spring months. 

 He says they are of easy culture, delighting in a dry atmosphere, which 

 at once will make them one of the most suitable and charming windoAV 

 plants. As bedding plants, he claims, they are equal to anything in 

 use for that purpose; if the plants are kept at rest during winter and 

 bedded out after the frosts are gone, they will remain in constant bloom 

 all summer, enduring without injury the hottest sun. 



