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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



February, 1915 



Strawberries 50 varieties 



BaSpbCrriCS ., varieties 



Seed Potatoes 



10 varieties 



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THE LAKEVIEW FRUIT FARM 



H. L. McCONNELL & SON, PORT BURWELL, ONT. 



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He- the past two years Soluble Sulphur 

 has been very successfully used in our or- 

 chards, to control scab and oyster shell 

 scale, and to assist the lead arsenate im 

 .controllings blister mite, codling- moth, and 

 numerous other orchard pests. The jfrowth 

 of wood has been wonderful. Trees thought 

 to be dead have recovered and are prom.- 

 ising- a crop another year. 



We spray with a pressure of one hundred 

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 times, according to directions laid down in 

 the bulletin issued by the Ontario Depart- 

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Prices :— Strawberries, $10.0(i per 1,000 



Cuthbert Uaspberries. $2 '.00 per 1.000 

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Gooseberries, Red and Yellow ; Currants, Red, Black and White ; Rasp- 

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 Rhubarb, Asparagus, Roots, etc., etc. 



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 W. FLEMING. Nurseryman, OVl^EN SOUND, ONT. 



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Nova Scotia Fruit Growers' 

 Association 



THE fifty-first annual meeting of the 

 Nova Scotia Fruit Growers' conven- 

 tion was held at Middleton, Januar>' 

 21-22. A. E. McMahon, of Aylesford, 

 was made the new president. Many of the 

 old men were absent this year, and for this 

 we were sorry. 



The necessity of advertisingf the Nova 

 Scotia apple was one of the principal sub- 

 jects of discussion. P. F. Lawson of Ber- 

 wick, who accompanied the first Belgian 

 relief ship, and incidentally made a tour 

 of the apple dealing centres of England, 

 told us that Nova Scotia fruit should be 

 advertised more. Years ago Nova Scotia 

 fruit had a pretty bad name in the English 

 markets, but thanks to the United Fruit 

 Companies in putting on the market a 

 consistently good pack, this fruit was rapid- 

 ly growing in favor. Since the Govern- 

 ment were hard up, he unfolded a scheme 

 whereby the fruit growers themselves 

 could bear the expense of an advertising 

 campaign. 



He distributed a number of pledges for 

 the members to sign, each promising to 

 give a certain number of barrels of No. 1 

 apples to be sold and the proceeds applied 

 to a fund to be used for advertising pur- 

 poses. Mr. Lawson was appointed to make 

 a canvass of the Valley soliciting pledges 

 of this kind. Premier Murray, who was 

 present, intimated that the Government 

 would help out the scheme so raised by add- 

 ing to it an equal sum. 



Messrs. Smith of Ottawa and Flack, 

 chief fruit inspector for the prairie pro- 

 vinces, dealt with the pre-cooling of fruit 

 and state of markets in the west respect- 

 ively. 



Messrs. Saunders and Brittain, Domin- 

 ion and Provincial Entomologists, gave re- 

 ports of work done during the year in con- 

 trolling injurious insects and plant dis- 

 eases. 



Beekeeping claimed a session. Mr. 

 Baker of Amherst showed that a good pro- 

 fit could be made from bees by treating 

 them intelligently. He kept his bees in a 

 dark cellar during the winter and fed them 

 on sugar syrup, having taken away all the 

 honey in the fall. He places the hives on 

 their summer stands in April. 



Mr. Hogan treated the subject from the 

 point of view of the bee as a pollenizer. 

 I'-ivinp' the results of experiments to show 

 that blossoms set much better where there 

 were lots of bees near an orchard. 



Fruit Commissioner D. Johnson of Ot- 

 tawa gave us a good old-fashioned talk on 

 various topics, commending a vigorous ad- 

 vertising campaign of the apple, and sav- 

 ing that while he considered that there 

 was danger of over-production in Ontario 

 and the west, the condition was not so 

 marked in the maritime provinces because 

 of their nearness to the Old Country mar- 

 kets. He highly commended the efficiency _ 

 of the United Fruit Companies of Noval 

 Scotia. 



Prof. F. C. Sears, of Amherst, Mass.,j 

 gave us the best and most comforting tali 

 of the convention. The professor labore 

 efficiently for many years in horticultura 

 work in our province, and we were all glal 

 to see him back again. In taking up th| 

 question of the future of the apple Indus 

 try, he cited the large planting of the las 

 ten years. .Against this factor, however 

 he claimed that we should place the los 

 of trees through old age and neglect 

 almost wiping out the score. The populal 

 lion also was increasing, and therefore thl 



