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gentleman began the business in 

 1882 and has now one of the largest 

 industries of the kind in Ontario. 



He puts up about half a niillion 

 cans annually, and was the first to ship 

 a car load of canned goods through via 

 C.P.R. to British Columbia. His 

 fruit is put up in such an excellent 

 manner that it is sold without any 



solicitation for orders, as is evidenced 

 by the fact that last season he shipped 

 six car loads to British Columbia, and 

 twenty-three to Winnipeg. As fruit 

 growers we desire to encourage this 

 industry everywhere, as one which 

 provides for the disposal of our fruits, 

 and largely adds to the profits of the 

 Canadian fruit grower. 



HORTICULTURAL. 



Keep the Cultivator Going-, 



" The Snyder blackberry is good for 

 drying on the bushes," is the criticism 

 of an Illinois blackberry grower. I 

 think this is a slander on the Snyder, 

 I grow blackberries by the tens of 

 acres, and in my thirty years experi- 

 ence, 1887 and one season ten years 

 back were the only ones in which the 

 vines received no rain from the time of 

 blooming until the entire crop was 

 gathered. Even under this test the 

 Snyder did not dry on the bushes, but 

 filled out well till the last berry, and 

 were sold at big figures. The reason 

 most blackberry growers fail in these 

 dry seasons is because they don't 

 properly cultivate. They say it is too 

 dry. This is just why plants need 

 culture, and I give it to them. I do 

 wait until the ground is too dry and 

 hard to run a cultivator through the 

 rows but begin early and cultivate 

 three to four inches deep every ten or 

 twelve days until the crop is gathered, 

 ceasing only in time to allow the canes 

 to mature well. It seems hard to teach 

 most fruit growers this particular trick, 

 and for this reason I make mere money 

 from my raspberries and blackberries 

 in dry seasons than I do when the 

 weather makes them produce good 

 crops with but little labor. I find the 

 Tyler or Souhegan (I cannot see any 

 dift'erence in them) to be very profit- 

 able. They are hardy and early, most 

 all gathered and sold when the Greggs 



come into market, and are wonderfully 

 productive. If properly cultivated, 

 they keep up with me till the last 

 picking. — [N. Ohmer. — In Farm ayid 

 Home.'\ 



Growing Strawberpies. 

 Almost every owner of a garden 

 thinks he knows all about growing 

 strawberries, but it is not everyone 

 that tends to them properly. There 

 are only a few varieties that will pay to 

 grow in hills with the runners kept 

 off, and as a rule these kinds are fond 

 of a heavy soil. As examples, the 

 Triomphe de Gand, Jucunda and 

 other large, highly flavored English 

 berries may be thus treated. A portion 

 of the runners, as well as every chance 

 weed, should be taken from the beds 

 now. This will soil the fruit unless 

 covered with a light mulch, but no one 

 should think of growing strawberries 

 without mulching. This berry delights 

 in water, and some of the finest we 

 have ever grown were regularly irri- 

 gated. Although small, the vine is a 

 gross feeder ; the ground must receive 

 plant food with no stingy hand before 

 and after planting. It is a popular 

 delusion that an abundance of manure 

 causes more leaves and less fruit. This 

 may be true with shy berries, but does 

 not hold Lood with all. The Albany 

 in its palmy days could be almost 

 doubled in size by feeding. After the 

 the crop has been gathered the mulch 



