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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



April, 1915 



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Well Fed 



Plants get the greatest 

 part of their feed, and their 

 growth, from the soil. If 

 you give the crop you sow 

 the exact Plant-Food it re- 

 quires to grow and ripen, 

 you can count on a strong 

 stand and a rich harvest. 



Nothing can be 

 more exact in its re- 

 sults than the 

 use of the 

 right quan- 

 l>«^ tity and 

 ■ the right 

 brand of 



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If years of cropping 

 have used up the Plant- 

 Food in the soil, you must 

 supply commercial Fertiliz- 

 ers to replace it. 



Do you understand how 

 to do this profitably? 



"Bumper Crops" is just 

 the book to show what 

 Plant-Foods to use for 

 each crop and how to use 

 them, to get the best re- 

 turns. 



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ber. The association has a balance on hand 

 of $1,3C0 and expects to receive liberal as- 

 sistance from several quarters. As no show 

 was held last fall, an effort will be made to 

 make the Exhibition next November the 

 largest and best yet held. 



The West Indies Market 



WatsoB Grifiia, CaBadua Trade Caamittoacr 



The apple is not nearly so well known 

 in the VVest Indies as the potato, but a 

 Rrocer in Gcorsretowrr, British Guiana, after 

 having- purchased some British Columbia 

 apples, arranjftd with an East Indian coolie 

 to peddle them in the East Indian settle- 

 ments and on the plantations where East 

 Indians arc employed. The result was sur- 

 prising. The peddler came to him again 

 and again for fresh supplies of apples. 



A black woman who was peddling apples 

 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, said that she 

 had a very good sale for them. She car- 

 ried them on her head piled on a large 

 wooden tray. She said she bought them 

 from a grocer. 



If associations of apple growers in Can- 

 ada could arrange for the effective introduc- 

 tion of their product into the West Indies, 

 large sales might be made. As yet pi 

 bably very few of these people know ti. 

 taste of a Canadian apple. At the present 

 stage of development it would be useless 

 to send most of them a book of recipes for 

 cooking apples in a variety of ways such as 

 has proved so popular in Canada. It is de- 

 sirable that the apples should iro from the 

 farmers in Canada to consumers in the' 

 West Indies without the expense of too . 

 many middlemen, as they must be sold at . 

 moderate prices. The apples should be 

 sent regularly and frequently, but not in 

 large quantities except where first-class cold 

 storage facilities are available, as they 

 quickly deteriorate in the climate of the 

 West Indies. 



.4FPLBS .\ND COT.D STORAGE 



In Georgetown, British Guiana, a grocer 

 showed some British Columbia apples that 

 had been in cold storage for three months. 

 They were in excellent condition and of fine 

 flavor. The superintendent of a large cold 

 storage warehouse in Georgetown stated 

 that he had kept British Columbia apples 

 in cold storage for nine months and found 

 them in perfect condition at the end of that 

 time. He said the chamber containing them 

 was never opened during the nine months. 

 He found that apples in a cold storage 

 chamber which was opened frequently to 

 get supplies could not be kept in good con- 

 dition for more than three or four months. 



None of the rolonies show imports of 

 apples in their trade statistics. They are 

 classed with "Fresh fruit," or "Fresh fruit 

 and vegetables." The quantity imported is 

 very small, but if the masses of the people 

 were made acquainted with the flavor of 

 Canadian apples the demand would greatly 

 increase. 



The apple is the only fresh Canadian 

 fruit that could be sent to the West Indit 

 but a , sale of dried and canned frur 

 and vegetables mitrht be developed. i; 

 would probably be possible to create a large 

 general demand for dried or evaporated 

 apples, if the people were made acquainted 

 with their merits. They could be placed 

 on the market more cheaply than canned 

 fruits, and that is a very important con- 

 sideration in these colonies. 



The following catalogues have been re 

 ceived by The Canadian Horticulturist : 

 Dupuv & Ferguson, Montreal, Que.; A. G. 

 Hull & Son, St. Catharines, Ont. : Perrs''^ 

 Hardv Plant Farm, Enfield. Eng., J. A. Sim- 

 mers,' Toronto, Ont. ; H. L. McConnell.Port 

 Burwell, Ont. ; O. A. Cwller, Judsonia.Ark. ; 

 Carter's Tested Seeds, Toronto, Ont. 



