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Decgmbeb 30, 1909. 



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time. Publicity for canned goods will 

 be the principal theme at the Atlantic 

 City convention. 



Promoters are at work on a plan to 

 bring together the Canadian canneries 

 with a view to forming a merger of the 

 industry. It appears that at present the 

 Canadian Canners, Limited, with head- 

 quarters at Hamilton, controls between 

 thirty and thirty-five canning companies. 

 There are fifty-one independent canners 

 in the country, distributed between Mon- 

 treal and British Columbia. 



"It is of course too early to predict 

 what the canning season will bring forth 

 for next year^ ' ' said a well known opera- 

 tor in canned goods. ' ' The corn pack 

 has been much reduced this year on ac- 

 count of weather conditions, and it is 

 understood that the acreage for vege- 

 tables for canning purposes will be large 

 for next year, so that if the crops are 

 good there should certainly be a large 

 pack for 1910." 



The price of packers' cans was re- 

 duced last week to a point where cans 

 are cheaper today than for three years. 



SEEDING OF VAVED SVEET PEAS. 



[A synopsis of a paper by William Cuth- 

 bertson, of Dobble & Co., Mark's Tey, Eng- 

 land, read at the conference of the National 

 Sweet Pea Society in London, England, De- 

 cember 10, 1909.] 



Those of you who remember the story 

 of "The Vicar of Wakefield" will re- 

 member how smoothly ran the career of 

 the family until the eldest son left Ox- 

 ford and the elder daughter came to a 

 marriageable age. You will remember the 

 loss of the A-icar's fortune and the other 

 remarkable adversities which followed in 

 its train — the selling of the horse by 

 Moses for £3 58 2d, which, instead of 

 bringing home in cash, Moses (who was 

 the second son of the family) converted, 

 at the instigation of a sharper, into "a 

 gross of green spectacles." 



Now, for 200 years the career of the 

 sweet pea ran its course as unperturbed 

 as did the family life of the vicar of 

 Wakefield at first. But we are now em- 

 barked on trying times and all our trou- 

 bles date from the advent of Cole's 

 Countess Spencer, but I am sure we can 

 follow the simile of ' ' The Vicar of Wake- 

 field" a little farther. The story ends 

 as all good stories ought to end — most of 

 the characters got married and lived hap- 

 pily ever afterward. I am sure some- 

 thing good is also in store for us sweet 

 pea growers. Out of our troubles our 

 flower will emerge like gold from the fur- 

 nace of the refiner. 



Certainties and Uncertainties. 



In the early days we dealt with cer- 

 tainties. In these days we deal with un- 

 certainties. Speaking of certainties re- 

 minds me of a visit I once paid to my 

 friend E. Sydenham. He took down a 

 great volume in which he had entered up 

 for years all the sweet peas he had sent 

 to be grown in America, and with that 

 exactitude for which he is famous, he had 

 scheduled the produce of every seed sent. 



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Caulif lOWPr SPPd Wlboltt's Earliest Snowball, No. 34, at $9.00 per 

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For example, lie bought 100 packets of a 

 novelty, and he knew almost to a pound 

 how much seed he was going to get back 

 and that it would be practically true. So 

 (lid all of us. My firm's practice was to 

 sow four ounces to 100 feet, and we knew 

 what the produce would be in five seasons 

 out of six. But all that is changed. We 

 have entered on the "green spectacle" 

 period. 



Last season was altogether an abnormal 

 one, and I am not, therefore, disposed to 

 argue from the experience of it, but if we 

 look at an average season I think you 

 will agree with me if I put it that on an 

 average the old type seeds ten times bet- 

 ter than the Spencer type. Having said 



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that, I have not said all, because a num- 

 ber of the finest Spencers are far below 

 the average, and are nearer being twenty 

 times worse seeders. Think of Etta Dyke 

 and Dorothy Eckford— Clara Curtis and 

 Mrs. Collier or James Grieve — The King 

 and King Edward VII— Mrs. Chas. 

 Foster and Lady Grisel Hamilton — Earl 



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