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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



March, 1915 



CENTRAL NURSERIES 



Have a Fine Assortment of 

 Trees, Vines, Plants, Ornamentals, Etc. 



For Sprlnc Ptantln^j Direct. 

 For Satisfaction plant HULL TREES. Our prices arc right and 

 so are the trees. Send for new priced catalogue, also your want list for 

 special prices on Apple Trees. Excellent quality, and at a ver>' reasonable 

 price. Trees ^rown in Canada. Look over our price list. No Agents. 

 A. G. HULL & SON - ST. CATHARINES, ONT. 



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Unsprayed fruit is liable to be a drug on the market. 



A Good Spray Outfit will soon pay for itself and Adds to your Profits. 



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is also more expensive, I feel sure that you 

 will ajfree that a return of 27 cents per box 

 is totally inadequate to pay for production. 



Ontario, which is the larKCSt apple rais- 

 inff province of the Dominion, is hardly in 

 a much better position. True, Ontario has 

 many cooperative fruit companies, but she 

 lacks a central association. The result has 

 been that lackinjf the Ruidinx hand of a 

 central, lacking the courag^e that a centra! 

 can always inspire the various cooperative 

 companies and the individual growers of 

 Ontario have almost thrown their crop away. 



Dependent almost entirely on the spec- 

 ulator, even as Nova Scotia would be but 

 for its central association, the Ontario 

 grower found that he was leaning on a 

 rotten reed for the apple speculator in 

 .August and September last was not imbued 

 with a great amount of courage and refus- 

 ed altogether to have any dealing with 

 those out of whom he had in the past made 

 handsome profits. 



CoDsequently the growers, thrown on 

 their own resources, flooded the western 

 markets with their apples absolutely with- 

 out regard to the requirements of that mar- 

 ket. Prices were slaughtered, and that 

 portion of the crop that was harvested was 

 thrown away, nearly half of the crop, how- 

 ever, was never harvested and was allowed 

 to rot on the ground. 



To-day, Ontario is without apples, and 

 her usual markets are bare, crying for the 

 very apples that have been thrown away, 

 and Nova Scotia is taking advantage of 

 the opportunity thus afforded, and is plac- 

 ing her products on the markets that On- 

 tario previously considered her own. 



Who will say that a similar state of 

 affairs would not have existed in Nova 

 Sootia had there been no central asso- 

 ciation ? At the commencement of the sea- 

 son hundreds of growers cancelled their 

 orders for barrels and lacked the courage 

 to pick their fruit. With the high freight 

 rates that would have been demanded but 

 for our efforts to prevent them, it would 

 have required considerable courage to have 

 shipped across to a country involved in a 

 K'^reat war, and I say that Nova Scotia would 

 liave done exactly as Ontario did. 



It was the central association that fur- 

 nished the courage that caused the growers 

 of the Annapolis V.alley to harvest and pack 

 their crop, a^nd it was the central associa- 

 tion that regulated the shipments so that 

 the growers in spite of the dark clouds 

 of war .are receiving a fair return for their 

 fruit. 



Perhaps I cannot do better at this stage 

 than tell you just what your fall fruit 

 has done. 



The average for Ribstons is : 

 $1.50; No. 2, $1.38; No. 3, $1X3. 



Blenheims, No. 1. $1.54; No. 2. 

 Co. No. 3, $1.00; No. 3, 98c. 



Kings, No. 1, $2.04: No. 2, $1.75; Co. 

 No. 3, $1.30; No. 3, $1.02. 



Compare those returns with the returns 

 received by the growers in any of your 

 competitive provinces, and I claim you 

 have all Canada beaten. 



No. 1 

 $1.30 



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