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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



January, 1910 



The Canadian Horticulturist 



Publuhed br The Horticultaral 

 Publi*hin( Company, UmMad 



fKTKMHOKO, ONTARIO 



The Only Horticultural Magazine 

 in the Dominion 



Official Organ of Bhitisii Columbia, Ontario 



QuKBKc, New Bkunhwick and PrinceEdward 



Island Fruit Guoweus" Associations 



H. Bronson Cowan, Managring Director 

 A. B. Cutting, B.S.A., Editor 



1. The Canadian HortlouUnrlgt li published on 

 the 25th day of the month preceding date of 

 Issue. 



2. Babsoriptlon price In Canada and Great Bri- 

 tain. BO cents a year ; two years, $1.00. For United 

 States and local sabscrlptlong in Peterboro, (not 

 called for at the Post OfBoe) 25 cents extra a 

 year, InclndinK postage. 



3. Remittances ahonld be made by Post Office 

 or Express Honey Order, or Begistered Letter. 

 Postage Stamps accepted for amoanta leas than 

 $1.00. 



4. Change of Address— When a change of ad- 

 dress is ordered, both the old and the new ad- 

 dresses mast be given. 



5. Advertising Bates quoted on application. 

 Copy received np to the 18th. Address all ad- 

 vertising correspondence and copy to our Ad- 

 vertising Manager, Peterboro, Ont. 



6. Articles and Illuatratlons for poblioation 

 will be thankfully received by the editor. 



CIRCULATION STATEMENT. 



(Since the subscription price of The Canadian 

 Horticulturist was reduced from $1.00 to 60 cents 

 a year, the circulation has grown rapidly. The 

 following is a sworn statement of the net paid 

 circulation of The Canadian Horticulturist for 

 the year ending with Dec, 1908. The figures giv- 

 en are exclusive of samples and epoiiAd copies, 

 and of papers sent to advertisers. Soice months, 

 including the sample copies, from 10,000 to 12,000 

 copies of The Canadian Horticulturist are mailed 

 to people known to be interested in the grow- 

 ing of fruit, flowers or vegetables. 



January, 1908 7,650 



February, 1908 7,824 



March, ia08 8,U56 



April, 1!)08 8,250 



May, 1908 8,573 



June, 1908 8,840 



July, 1908 9,015 



August, 1908. 9,070 



September, 1908 9,121 



October, 1908 9,215 



November, 1908 9.323 



December. 1908 9,400 



Total for the year .. 104,337 



January, 1909 9,456 



February, 19U9 9,310 



March, 1909 9,405 



April, 191.9 9,482 



May, 1909 9,172 



June, 1909 8,891 



July, 1909 8,447 



August, 1909 8.570 



September, 1909 8,605 



October, 1909 8,675 



November, 1909 8.750 



December, 1909 8,875 



Total for the year .107,638 



Average each iuua in 1907, 6,627 



1908, 8,695 



1909, 8.970 



Sworn detailed statement! wi'I be mailed npcn 

 application. 



Our Protective Policy 



We want the readers of The Canadian Hortl- 

 onlturiat to feel that they can deal with our 

 advertisers with our assurant.- ol the advertisers' 

 reliability. We try to admit to on.- columns 

 only the most reliable advertisers. Should any 

 subscriber, therefore, have good cause to be 

 dissatisfied with the treatment he receives from 

 any of our advertisers, we will look into the 

 matter and investigate the circumstances fully. 

 Should we find reason, even in the slightest 

 degree, we will discontiue immediately the pub 

 lication of their r.dvertisements in The Horti- 

 culturist. Should the circumstances warrant, 

 we will expose them through the columns of 

 the paper. Thus, we will not only protect our 

 readers, but our reputable advertisers as well. 

 All that is necessary to entitle you to the bene- 

 fits of this Protective Policy is that you include 

 in all your letters to advertisers the words, 

 "I saw your ad. in The Canadian Horticultur- 

 ist." Complaints should be made to us as soon 

 as possible after reason for dissatisfaction has 

 been found. 



Communications should be addressed: 



TKI OAWAIVTAW HOBTICTTLTUBXST, 



PBTSSBOBO, ONTASIO. 



EDITORIAL 



ARRANGE A TRIP TO ENGLAND 



In one of the weekly reports of the Do- 

 minion Department of Trade and Commerce, 

 Mr. W. A. MacKinnon, Canadian Trade 

 Commissioner, Birmingham, England, sug- 

 gested that Canadian fruit growers would 

 do well to follow the example of their breth- 

 ren on the continent, by organizing a tour- 

 ing party to visit the chief ports and mark- 

 ets of Great Britain. The suggestion should 

 receive serious consideration. Every year 

 a few of our most enterprising growers 

 visit the Old Country individually to learn 

 the situation there at first hand. Would 

 it not bo better for these men to arrange 

 to go in a body." A number of growers 

 together would receive greater attention 

 from the British dealers and others inter- 

 ested than would be accorded to them as 

 individuals. They would be able to gain 

 more valuable information in this way than 

 they could if travelling alone. Such a 

 deputation would leave an impression on 

 the trade in Great Britain that no in- 

 dividual, no matter how large his interests, 

 could give. Intending visitors to the Old 

 Country in the interests of our fruit indust- 

 ry, should consider the advisability of tak- 

 ing this step. 



Should this suggestion meet with approv- 

 al. The C.\n.\di.\n Horticulturist would 

 willingly act as a medium of arrangement. 

 Let us hear from those interested. 



THE PILFERING OF FRUIT 



Since our editorial reference in last issue 

 to the pilfering of fruit by express company 

 employees, we have received additional let- 

 ters giving specific instances. These will 

 be published later. We would be glad to 

 receive still further evidence. Names of 

 contributors will not be published without 

 permission. 



The express companies, if they would, 

 could locate the guilty employees. Inspec- 

 tion of packages at time of delivery with 

 a system of receipts between growers, 

 agents and messengers on trains, easily 

 furnishes a means of detection. For in- 

 stance, when fruit packages are received in 

 good condition by a messenger and receipted 

 for by him and reach the transfer mes- 

 senger or the agent at destination, showing 

 evidence of pilfering, there is only one 

 person guilty and that is the messenger. 

 The importance of this responsibility should 

 be impressed upon the express companies 

 by the Railway Commissioners. 



BRITISH COLUMBIA INSPECTION 



There was some talk last spring that 

 the British Columbia government intended 

 to establish a fumigation station at Gold- 

 en, for the benefit of growers who desired 

 to import eastern stock. That this should 

 be done has been pointed out in these col- 

 umns many times. Our contention is back- 

 ed up by scores of letters from British 

 Columbia and by the editorial backing of 

 the inland press of that province. The 

 general and unbiased feeling in the matter 

 is summed up in the following extract from 

 a letter received from Mr. R. R. Bruce, Wil- 

 mer : "Golden is the natural place for it, 

 as it is the eastern gateway of British 

 Columbia. With the present fumigation 

 station at the coast, there would then be 

 the minimum of delay to any fruit stock 

 coming in either from the east or from the 

 west. The establishment of such a station 



would tend to a more rigid fumigation." 

 The Canadia.n Horticulturist has been 

 accused of advocating the establishment 

 of such a station in the interests of eastern 

 nurserymen, ^\'^lile wo recognize that east- 

 ern nurseries would benefit, we are cham- 

 I»ioning the interests of the fruit growers 

 of British Columbia, hundreds of whom are 

 readers of this magazine. Wo are not con- 

 cerned about where the growers purchase 

 their stock, but feel that those that desire 

 to purchase in the east should be given 

 a fair chance to do so with some degree 

 of certainty about the stock arriving in 

 good condition. Inspection stations at both 

 Vancouver and Golden would give all a 

 fair chance and there would be no descrim- 

 ination. 



Another feature of British Columbia in- 

 spection methods is the double and triple 

 fumigation that stock is subjected to. 

 This is referred to at greater length in a 

 letter from Mr. M. J. Henry that appears 

 page 12 of this issue. The provincial 

 government would do great service to its 

 fruit industry by remedying these matters 

 before the opening of next season. 



QUEEN VICTORIA PARK 



It is announced that the services of a 

 skilled gardener, who was trained in Kew 

 Gardens, London, England, and was more 

 recently in the service of Cornell Univer- 

 sity, have been secured for Queen Victoria 

 Park at Niagara Falls. This is welcome 

 news. The need for the appointment could 

 scarcely be greater. It is fourteen months 

 since this was first brought to the notice of 

 the public of Ontario by The C.anwdun 

 Horticulturist. Our early editorials were 

 attacked by interested parties at Niagara 

 Falls. Our readers will now see. by the 

 action of the park commissioners, that 

 the stand we took was warranted. Now 

 that something definite has been done by 

 the jjark commissioners to bring about an 

 improvement it is our desire to lend all 

 assistance in our power to the further- 

 ance of the work. 



The appointee comes well recommended. 

 It is expected that he will be able to 

 show great improvements in the horticul- 

 tural and landscape features of the park. 

 There is room for careful thought and lots 

 .if work. Queen Victoria Park can be made 

 the best park on the continent. 



Ignorance begets the medicine man. That 

 civilization has advanced little in this res- 

 pect from the days of the red-skin to the 

 present age of white man supremacy is 

 evidenced each year by something new in 

 the "tree-doctor" line being launched upon 

 the farmer and fruit grower. Lo, the poor 

 farmer! The Halifax Chronicle reports 

 that a Boston firm landed one of the 

 usual "Yankee nutmegs" on the farmers 

 of that province last season. "A patent 

 'Katch Air was sold, warranted to re- 

 main moist and sticky and capable of 

 stopping every slug that touched it. After 

 about $4,000 of it had been delivered, the 

 farmer woke up to the fact that while it 

 might make fair roofing, or act as a sub- 

 stitute for bitulithic paving, it offered no 

 obstruction to the crawling canker." 



Fruit growers in Ontario and their sons 

 should attend the short course in fruit grow- 

 ing to be held at the Ontario Agricultural 

 College, Guelph, January 25 to February 5. 

 It promises to be of unusual value. The 

 demonstrations in apple packing and in the 

 preparation of spraying materials will be 

 a distinct advance on last year's work on 

 these subjects, and in addition the ofii- 

 cers expect to have both hand and power 

 spraying outfits in operation before the 



