March, T915 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTUEIST 



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Potato Profits 



mtiM 



depend largely on bow the crop Is planted. 

 Every skipped hill is a loss in time, fertilizer 

 and soil. Every double wastes valuable seed. 

 It means $5 to $50 per acre extra profit if all hills 

 are planted, one piece in each. That is why 



100 Per Cent 



Planters 



oflen pay for themselves In one season on small 

 acreajEC. They also plant straiglit, at rizht depth, j 

 to 24 inches apart, ^ With or withoutfcrtilizerdi*.- 

 thbutor. Ask your dealer to 

 sliow you this Planter 

 and write us lor booklet, 

 I '100 Per Cent Potalc 



TheBateman-WlIklnion 



'..Limited. 4653ymJng- 

 ton Ave., Toronto, Can. 



SWEET PEAS 



Should be planted soon: we get ours to bloom 

 from June till the' ^nd of Septenilx»r! All 

 Canadian ^rowu seed, g-uai-anteed true to 

 color and a g-ermination of over 95?o- Send 

 for list of the beautiful colors and varieties 

 NOW. _^ 



"OTAMOT" 



"G-autbys Ideal, " a new variety which is un- 

 doubtedly the finest eatinp tomato in 

 America — a very heavy bearer of perfect 

 fruit and a great drought rraister. Turn to 

 page 50 of the February issue and drop a 

 postal RIGHT AWAY for full particulars, and 

 get in before our COMPETITION closee. 



HILLSIDE FRUIT FARM, SIMCOE. ONT. 



GROFFS MODERN GLADIOLI 



" America " Grofl's 119 is now the leading 

 variety in commerce, wherever Gladioli are 

 grown. 



Grojf's "Peace" will have as large a sale 

 when equally well known. 



We have over one thousand varieties of 

 Groff'a Hybrids under test, and ma,ny of thera 

 will become permanent additions to the list. 



We also grow in quantity. Dahlias, Cannas. 

 Paeonies, Hardy Perennials and General Nur- 

 sery Stock. 



Catalogues on Application. 



CAMPBELL BROS., SIMCOE, ONT. 



EUROPEAN SEEDS 



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Order from ENGLAND NOW 



ELWAY'O 



QUOTE and CAN DELIVER \^ 



Vetch and Flower Seeds 



If you h;ive hitherto placed your orders in 

 other quarters, OUR PRICK under present 

 circumstances, will conioel you to buy from us. 



Pleane write AT ONCE while stocks last for 

 immediate and later delivery : also on contract 

 for next Fall. 



British Sailing to Canada 

 continues all the tin\e. 



KELWAY & SON, 



SEED GROWERS 

 I, to the TRADE 



LANGPORT, ENG, 



The Question of Overproduction* 



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



Kven in as fine an industry as the orchard 

 industry it is worth while to look ahead oc- 

 casionally and see where we are going". 

 Whether we are coming- to a point where 

 there is to be over-production. If there is 

 any dangfer of coming- to that, there is cer- 

 tainly nothing- more vital for us to consider. 

 We have heard, on our side of the line at 

 least, a lot of talk from various men in 

 whose judgment wc had every confidence, 

 that we were approaching a point where 

 there is bound to be over-production. 



While statistics are dry things, it is 

 worth while to consider a few. The report 

 of the Trade and Commerce Department at 

 Ottawa, on the 31st March, 1914. shows that 

 the average shipments of apples from Can- 

 ada to Great Britain amd to the United 

 States and other countries, for the ten years 

 from 1893 to 1902, were something over 

 SOd.OOO barrels, and the average shipment 

 the next ten years, 1,200,000; that is, there 

 was a 50 per ceint. increase in shipments. The 

 last Unite<J States census shows that there 

 were sixty-five milliom trees in the United 

 States at that time not yet in bearing. 

 These are big figures, and probably we do 

 not take them in, but they present a serious 

 side to the question of over production. 

 \ou will also find present day plantings arc 

 on the average in the hands of much bet- 

 ter men than the old plantings were ; the 

 work is better handled. 



Let us look now at- the other side of the 

 ((uestion. We had in the United States 

 fifty million less bearing trees at the last 

 census than we had ten years previous. 

 And by the time the sixty-five million apple 

 trees mentioned before come to bearing, 

 we will ijrobably have lost enough more, so 

 that we will not be at all ahead of what we 

 were when the census was taken. Add to 

 this that while this change was going on 

 in the yield, the population of the United 

 States had increased from seventy-six mil- 

 lions to ninety-two millions, an increase 

 of about twenty-one per cent., and you 

 have a situation that looks a good deal 

 Ijrighter, Besides this, the people are 

 spending more money, spending it more fre- 

 ly than they used to. There is a good deal 

 more increase than twenty-one per cent, in 

 their buying power. When we marrow it 

 down the situation is not so discoura,ging. 

 Fruit Commissioner Johnson spoke about 

 the tremendous increase in plantations in 

 the west. That is a fact that must be con- 

 sidered, but it seems to me that we people 

 in the east have the west beaten in our 

 nearness to market. It costs them about 

 fifty cents to produce, plus fifty cents 

 freight to put their product in the Boston 

 market, while it does not cost us anything 

 like that. 



Canadian Apples for Norway. — The Nor- 

 wegian Consulate has informed the Depart- 

 ment of Commerce, at Ottawa, that vari- 

 ous iin(|uiries have been received from in- 

 terested p.irties in Norway desirous of get- 

 ting into communication with Canadian ex- 

 porters of fresh fruit, more particularly of 

 apples. Norway is a large importer of these 

 products, there beimg sent over from the 

 I'nited States a considerable quantity of 

 Winesap, Peppins, Gravensteims and other 

 well keeping apples of good size. One of 

 the Norwegian inquirers solicits representa- 

 tion in Norway for some Canadian expor- 

 ter who may decide to open up connections 

 with this market. 



•Extract from an address delivered at the re- 

 oent ajuinal oonvention of the Nova Scotia Fruit 

 GrowerB" A«.->ociation. 



BEZZO'S FAMOUS PRIZE ASTERS 



Prizes Ne.v York State Fair, 'ioronto Ex- 

 hibition and other places where shown, about 

 20 varieties. All shades of color Plants 81.00 

 per 100 hv express, $1.10 by mail. Sate de- 

 livery guaranteed. Special prices to Horti- 

 cultural Societice. 

 C. MORTI.MER BHZZO ■ BERLIN, C.VNADA 



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Director of Colonization 

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Minister of Agriculture 

 Parliament Bldgs., Toronto 



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ST. THOMAS, ONT. 



