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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



March, 1910 



Horticultural Societies' Grant 



The direoto'S of the Ontario Horticultural 

 Association roet in Toronto fhrly last month 

 and waited on Hon. J. S. Duff, Provincial 

 Minister of Agriculture, and asked that an 

 increa««- in the grant to horticultural soci- 

 eties of $8,000 be made. It was pointed out 

 that owing to the largely increased expendi- 

 tures, that were the government grant in- 

 creaseJ by $5,000 the grant per member 

 would be only about the same as it has been 

 in the past. As the societies are growing 

 rapidly in membership, it was felt, there- 

 fore, that the grant should be increased by 

 at least $8,000 to provide for the future 

 growth of the societies. 



The members of the deputation included 

 Messrs. R. i". VVhyte, the president, of Ot- 

 tawa; Rev. A. H. Scott, Perth; J. P. Jaf- 

 frey, Gait; J. Lockie Wilson, Toronto; F. 

 B. Bowden, Vankleek Hill; J. O. McCul- 

 loch, Hamilton ; (i. W. Tebbs, Hespeler ; H. 

 J. McKay, Windsor; W. B. Burgoyne, St. 

 Catharines, and Prof. H. L. Hutt, Guelph. 

 The subject was introduced by Mr. Whyte. 

 Others who spoke were Messrs. Rev. Scott, 

 J. P. Jaffrey, W. B. Burgoyne and H. B. 

 Cowan. Rev. Mr. Scott went into the sub- 

 ject at some length, having prepared a 

 statement with great care showing the abso- 

 lute necessity that exists for the increase 

 in the grant. Mr. Jaffrey pointed out that 

 some yeqrs ago when Canadians were leav- 

 ing Canada for the United States they used 



1(1 decry Ontario towns and Tillages as be- 

 ing slow and behind the times. He had 

 lived in the United States for some years 

 and had heard many do this. Of late years, 

 since the horticultural societies have been 

 improving the appearance of the municipal- 

 ities in which they exist, many Canadians, 

 when they returned home, were proud of the 

 appearance of their home towns and now 

 l,oast of their places. Now that the gov- 

 ornment is trying to induce immigration to 

 the province, it should do everything it 

 could to assist horticultural societies to im- 

 prove the attractiveness of their respective 

 municipalities. 



Mr. Burgoyne showed that whereas the 

 membership of the horticultural societies in 

 1906 was 6,367, it had increased in 1909 to 

 over 9,000. Owing to this increase, where 

 the government grant in 1906 to every so- 

 ciety, was equal to 37 cents for each mem- 

 ber, it had decreased in 1909 to 26 2-3 cents 

 a member. In the same way, where the ex- 

 penditures of the societies in 1906 weie 

 $14,863, they had increased to about $24,- 

 000 in 1909. Thus, whereas the government 

 formerly gave 32 cents to a society for every 

 dollar they expended, it is now giving only 

 about 20 cents. Mr. Burgoyne contended 

 that the time had arrived when the grant 

 to the societies was not sufficient and it 

 had become a burden to the society to con- 

 duct their operations successfully. 



Hon. Mr. Duff, who said he was in a 

 hurry, did not give the deputation as much 



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encouragement as they felt the importance 

 of their question justified. In order that 

 the government might see that there is a 

 general demand throughout the province tor 

 this increased grant, it was later decided to 

 telegraph the presidents of all the horticul- 

 tural societies in the province urging them 

 to telegraph their members in the legisla- 

 ture asking them to interview the members 

 of the cabinet and urge them to give the 

 increased grant. It was felt that if the va- 

 rious societies would do this, it would do 

 more to show the government the necessity 

 that exists for this increased grant than 

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San Jose Scale in Ontario 



R. H. Lewit, ProTiacial Istpector, HamiltoD 



San Jose scale in this province is spread- 

 ing. In most luunicipalities w'hich I have 

 visited, during the past year I have found 

 more or less scale. 



What surprises me is to find such town- 

 shii^s as South Grantham and Niagara, all 

 in the peach belt, not having local inspect- 

 jrs to inspect the orchards where trees are 

 badly infested with scale. There are about 

 10 municipalities that have local inspectors 

 and all are doing good work. In North 

 Grimsby and Saltfleet townships excellent 

 work is being done by the inspectors and the 

 growers are holding the scale in check by 

 thorough spraying. 



Leamington has taken up spraying so ex- 

 tensively that the coming spring a large 

 number of peach trees are going to be plant- 

 ed. Now that the growers can buy the lime 

 and sulphur prepared, I expect to see great- 

 er advancement in the way of general spray- 

 ing of peach orchards this coming spring. 

 Apple orchards in this locality are nearly 

 a total ruin by the scale. 



The department of agriculture is doing 

 everything that possibly can be done. All 

 stock in the nurseries is inspected during 

 August and September by inspectors sent 

 by the dei)artment. Every tree is care- 

 fully looked over, and when found with scale 

 the trees are broken down and the nursery- 

 man notified to take out and burn. 



I have visited a number of the nurseries 

 during the past season and found the nur- 

 serymen doing all that is possible to keep 

 the stock free from scale. The nurserymen 

 have a good deal to fight against. Surround- 

 ing most of our nurseries are old apple or- 

 chards and line fences with all kinds of trees 

 growing, which are infested badly with scale 

 and affording breeding spots for it. 



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