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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



February, 1910 



The Canadian Horticulturist 



'Published hj The Horticultural 

 Publishins Compan7, Limited 



PETKKBOKO, ONTARIO 



The Only Horticultural Magazine 

 in the Dominion 



Official Organ of British Columbia, Ontario 



Quebec, New Brunswick and Prince Edward 



Island Fruit Growers' Associations 



H. Bbonson Cowan. Managing Director 

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



1. Thn Canadian Horticulturist is published on 

 the 25th day of the month preceding date of 

 issue. 



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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, 1909. The figures giv- 

 en are exclusive of samples and spoiled copies, 

 and of papers sent to advertisers. Some 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, 1909 9.456 ' January, 1910 8,925 



February, 1909. 9,310 



March, 1909 9,405 



April, 19(19 9,482 



May, 1909 9,172 



June, 1909 8,891 



July, 1909 8,447 



August. 1909 8.570 



September. 1909 8.6a5 



October, 1909 8.675 



November, 1909 8.7.50 



December, 1909 8,875 



Total for the year . 107,638 



Average each issue in 1907. 6,627 



1908, 8.695 



1909, 8,970 



Sworn detailed statements will be mailed upon 

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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST, 



PETERBORO, ONTARIO. 



CANADIAN APPLE SHOW 



From British Columbia comes a sugges- 

 tion that a National Apple Show bo held 

 in Canada annually and that it be institut- 

 ed in the City of Viincoiiver in November 

 or December, 1910. The success of the Na- 

 tional Apple Shows at Spokane, Wa.sh., is 

 cited and the educational and advertising 

 advantages to Canada that might result 

 from similar shows in this country are 

 pointed out. The idea is an excellent one 

 in theory. Every person in Canada who is 

 interested in our apple industry and its pro- 

 gress would be glad to see a great Canadian 

 National Apple Show held annually in a dif- 

 ferent province each year. If successfully 

 managed and financed, great advantages 

 would accrue and our pride in things Can- 

 adian would be made greater than ever. For 

 these reasons we would like to see such a 

 show held if prospects for its success should 

 \varrant action ; nevertheless, we fear that 

 the scheme is not feasible. 



In the first place we must consider who 

 would he benefitted by the holding of such 

 a show. If the show is to be national in 

 character it must be conducted on a basis 

 that will ensure the support of practically 

 all the apple growing centres of Canada. 

 This would necessitate the show being held 

 at a point that will meet with the approval 

 of the growers in such sections. Eastern 

 growers do not' ship any of their apples 

 to British Columbia, therefore, an apple 

 show held in British Columbia would not 

 appeal to them. In the same way, British 

 Columbia growers market little or no fruit 

 in Ontario or other eastern provinces. For 

 this reason they would not be inclined to 

 support a show held anywhere in Ontario 

 or the east. Thus the only point where such 

 a show could be held with any likelihood 

 of gaining general support would be at some 

 place in the prairie provinces. This is a 

 market for which both British Columbia 

 and Ontario fruit growers are competing. 

 As yet neither Quebec nor the Maritime 

 provinces are competing factors there. 



To ensure success shows of this kind 

 should be held in fruit centres. Otherwise 

 the attendance and interest manifested is 

 slim. The support such a show would gain 

 in any of the prairie provinces is,, therefore, 

 problematical. 



Canada's greatest need during the next 

 few years will be the holding of more and 

 better provincial shows. Until shows such 

 as those now held in the various provinces 

 receive greater support than they have in 

 the past it would seem to be too risky a 

 venture to attempt to hold a national show. 

 Such an event, however, will materialize in 

 good time as our fruit industry develops. 



SPRAY! SPRAY! SPRAY! 



It is necessary no longer to tell farmers 

 and fruit growers that it pays to spray. The 

 spread of injurious insects and fungi has 

 made the practice absolutely essential to 

 the production of fruit of the best quality. 

 Spraying is now placed among the regular 

 operations in orcharding. No up-to-date 

 fruit grower would consider for a moment 

 the possibility of growing fruit without the 

 aid of the spray pump. When money is 

 invested in fruit trees for commercial pur- 

 poses, money must be spent for spray pumps 

 and mixtures. Many growers who have been 

 slow in adopting the practise have, through 

 their losses, been made to see their folly. 



There are very few out-and-out fruit grow- 

 ers who do not spray and those that do not 

 are not profiting by the experience of 

 others — they are producing low-grade fruit 

 when high-gi'ade fruit could be had with 

 but little extra expense. 



In the ca.se of farmers who have small 

 orchards of fruit trees "on the side," the 

 practise of spraying is not so universal. 

 Unless they have been shown the value of 

 spraying, by example or by co-operative 

 effort, . they consider it laborious and an 

 unnecessary expense. There are thousands 

 of farmers in Canada with established or- 

 chards that might have a nice income from • 

 the sale of fruit, particularly apples, if 

 they would give the trees more attention 

 in regard to cultivation, fertilizing, prun- 

 ing and spraying — and no one of these oper- 

 ations is worth while for any length of time 

 without all of the others. These farmers 

 should spray. 



The first cost of a spray pump is soon 

 returned to the purchaser in increased re- 

 turns from the orchard. For small orchards, 

 hand-pumps give excellent results; they are 

 cheap and can be used also in the potato 

 field and elsewhere when needed. For large 

 orchards and for use in a group of small 

 orchards whose owners club together, the 

 power sprayer is the most satisfactory and 

 economical. 



Farmers and fruit growers in Ontario 

 have had a special inducement for forming 

 co-operative societies of five or more mem- 

 bers for spraying. In 1907, the provincial 

 government gave a bonus of fifty dollars 

 on each power machine purchased co-opera- 

 tively. In 1908 and 1909, the money was 

 distributed according to the acreage spray- 

 ed and the efficiency of the work done, re- 

 gardless of the type of machine used. Bon- 

 uses for such work will not be offered this 

 year. Instead, the government intends to 

 send out competent instructors to give ad- 

 vice in regard to pruning, spraying and 

 other orchard operations. A number of 

 ' townships or counties will be selected and 

 a man put in each for a considerable time 

 to go from place to place givng informa- 

 tion on these points. 



There should be a spray pump of some 

 kind on every farm where fruit trees are 

 grown. One season's trial will prove its 

 worth and the owner will wonder why he did 

 without it so long. There are many dif- 

 ferent kinds of spray mixtures to use. Good 

 ones may be made at home and others equal- 

 ly good may be purchased from manufactur- 

 ers. Buy a spray pump, find out what mix- 

 ture to use and spray, spray, spray! 



PUBLIC SPRAYING 



There is an opportunity in Canada for 

 public sprayers. In many villages, towns 

 and cities, there are fruit trees, bushes and 

 shrubbery, infested with insects and dis- 

 eases in variety, that should be sprayed. 

 Often the trees are held in high esteem ' 

 by the owners who seldom detect the pests 

 until the trees are badly infested. Many 

 of these people are eager to have their trees 

 properly sprayed but have neither the fa- 

 cilities for the work nor the time to do it. 

 There is a chance here for remunerative 

 employment for persons who would under- 

 take the work. Furthermore, there is great 

 need for such public spraying in preventing 

 the spread of noxious insects and diseases. 



There are three ways in which public 

 spraying can be conducted. Private par- 

 ties in each municipality can secure the 

 equipment and spray mixtures and perform 

 the operation. By using commercial spray 

 mixtures the equipment could be reduced 

 to a spray pump and accompanying ap- 

 paratus. Once it is known that the ser- 

 vice is available, plenty of work would he 



