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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



July, 1910 



The Canadian Horticulturist 



PabBdiad by TIi* Hertiealtar*] 

 PublUUnc C«mpaB7. Umitad 



PKTKRBORO, ONXA.RIO 



The Only Horticultural Magazine 

 in the Dominion 



OmciAL Oroan or thk Ontario, Quebec, New 



Brcnswiok and Prince Kdwakd Island 



Fruit Growers' Associations 



H. Bronson Cowan, Managing Direotor 



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CIRCULATION STATEMENT. 



The following is a sworn statement of the net 

 paid circulation of The Canadian Horticulturist 

 for the year ending with December, 1909. The fig- 

 ures given are exclusive of samples and spoiled 

 copies, and of papers sent to advertisers. Most 

 months, including the sample copies, from 11,000 

 to 12,000 copies of The Canadian Horticulturist 

 are mailed to people known to be interested in 

 the growing of fruits, flowers or vegetables. 



January, 1910 8,928 



February, 1910 8,967 



March, IHIO 9,178 



April, 1910 9,410 



May, 1910 9,505 



June, 1910' 9,723 



January, 1909 9,456 



F«bruaryi 1909. 9,310 



March, 1909 9,405 



April, 1909 9,482 



May, 1909 9,172 



June, 1909 8,891 



July, 1909 8,447 



AuguRt, 1909 8,570 



September, 1909 8,605 



October, 190» 8,675 



November, 1909 8,750 



December, 1909 8,875 



Total for the year .107,638 



At»t»m» uch iuua in 1907, 6.627 



1908. 8.696 



'• '• 1909, 8,970 



Sworn detailed statements will be mailed upon 

 application. 



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THE CANADIAN HORTTOULTUEIST, 



PETERBORO, ONTARIO. 



A BOOM IN ONTARIO FRUIT LANDS 



At last the fruit land in the Niagara dis- 

 trict of Ontario is beginning to be appre- 

 ciated at something like its true value. 

 What might almost be termed a "land 

 boom" is in progress. The whole district 

 from Queenston around the end of the lake 

 to within a few miles of Toronto, where it 

 has been shown that tender fruit can be 

 grown successfully, is affected. Land is 

 being held at higher values than ever be- 

 fore. Private persons as well as companies 

 have been purchasing land and holding it 

 for an advance in values. 



A comparatively new factor, hitherto but 

 little known in the district although com- 

 mon to the fruit sections of British Colum- 

 bia and in the United States, the land 

 agent, has made his appearance. Large 

 areas of fruit lands are being bought, sub- 

 divided and sold off in small lots. While it 

 is possible that in some cases land is being 

 held at figures out of proportion to its true 

 value, the possibilities of good land in this 

 section are so great, the present boom is 

 well justified. The wonder is that it did 

 not occur long ago. 



This evidence that the people of Ontario 

 are beginning to appreciate their opportuni- 

 ties is full of encouragement and promise. 

 The new elements that are entering the sit- 

 uation mean that the possibilities of the 

 tender fruit districts of Ontario will be more 

 and better advertised from now on than 

 ever before. 



It is the land agents largely who have 

 made the snlendid possibilities of the fruit 

 districts of British Columbia so widely 

 known. Land equally as good as the best 

 in British Columbia and with larger markets 

 nearer at hand, and better shipping facili- 

 ties, is abundant and is to be found in sev- 

 eral of the lake sections of Ontario. This 

 land can stand booming. It needs it. Only 

 a comparatively small portion of the Niag- 

 ara district that is suitable for fruit cul- 

 ture is under cultivation. The possibilites 

 of, this section are enormous. 



The tremendous tide of emigration Can- 

 ada is now experiencing will grow greater 

 year by year. Not only is our great West 

 being settled, but within a few years hun- 

 dreds of thousands of settlers will locate in 

 the vast clay belt of New Ontario. No mat- 

 ter how rapidly plantations may be set up 

 in the fruit sections of old Ontario, the mar- 

 kets are destined to grow even more rapidly. 

 No wonder our fruit growers are optimistic. 

 They have every reason for being so. 



The present provincial inspector has but 

 little power over the local inspectors ap- 

 pointed by the various municipalities. In 

 some cases, at present, the local inspectors 

 are defying the provincial inspector to make 

 them enforce the Act. 



Recent legislation relating to sanitary in- 

 spection in cheese factories and creameries 

 and also to law enforcement, proves that the 

 government is aware that laws drafted on 

 the basis of the one pertaining to the San 

 Jose scale Act are more often than not a 

 failurft when their enforcement is left large- 

 ly in the hands of local officials. The San 

 Jose scale Act in Ontario needs to be re- 

 vised so that the onus for its proper en- 

 forcement will rest entirely with the pro- 

 vincial government. This change cannot 

 be made too soon. A vigorous agitation for 

 such an amendment to the Act should be 

 started. 



THE SAN JOSE SCALE ACT 



While it is true that the Ontario govern- 

 ment has succeeded in confining the San 

 Jose scale to those districts where it first 

 secured its start, it would be only foolish- 

 ness to pretend that the scale is not spread- 

 ing in those districts — in some of them rap- 

 idly. There are various reasons for this, 

 one of the principal of which is the fact 

 that the Act of the Ontario Legislature re- 

 lating to San Jose scale is very defective. 

 Although this Act, with its various amend- 

 ments, has been one of the most discussed 

 acts ever passed by the Legislature, both 

 the former Liberal government and the pres- 

 ent Conservative government apparently 

 have feared to grapple with the situation in 

 the thorough and effective manner that the 

 seriousness of the situation has called for. 



SHIPPING EXPERIMENTS NEEDED 



"The Fruit and Cold Storage Divisions of 

 the Dominion Department of Agriculture 

 should test on a large scale and in a thor- 

 ough manner the possibilities of shipping, 

 not only peaches to Great Britain, but other 

 perishable products, such as pears and to- 

 matoes, as well. Experimental shipments 

 that have already been made, for the most 

 part by private individuals, indicate that 

 there are great possibilities for an expan- 

 sion of trade in this direction. 



The responsibility for conducting this 

 work rests with the Dominion government. 

 The government will fall short of what the 

 public expects from it if it does not con- 

 duct these experiments this year on a scale 

 that will insure the work being done in a 

 manner that will warrant the results ob- 

 tained, being looked upon as a safe indica- 

 ton of the possibilities of this line of trade. 

 The experiments may show that improve- 

 ments in the existing cold storage facilities 

 are needed. Time will be required to effect 

 these. In the meantime, however, no time 

 should be lost in ascertaining the possibili- 

 ties of our present facilities. 



MOTHER'S DAY 



Reports received by The Canadian Horti- 

 ctiiiTtiRiST show that the observance of 

 Mother's Day in May was more general 

 throughout Ontario than ever before. The 

 sentiment that is promoting the observance 

 of this day met with such general approval 

 this year as to show that there is an open- 

 ing for an extension of this movement. 



As previously explained in these columns, 

 the object of this movement is to afford ev- 

 eryone an opportunity to manifest their 

 love for their mother. The plan is to induce 

 all persons to send boxes of flowers to their 

 mothers or to wear a white flower in her 

 memory on a certain day in May. The sen- 

 timent is a commendable one. There is 

 room here for good work by such oi"ganiza- 

 tions as the Ontario Horticultural Associa- 

 tion and the various horticultural societies 

 of the province. The object of these soci- 

 eties is to encourage a love for the beauti- 

 ful. This is one way in which it can be 

 done. 



The informal announcement that Mr. W. T. 

 Macoun of the Central Experimental Farm, 

 Ottawa, has been promoted and that here- 

 after he will have charge of the horticul- 

 tural work on the various experimental 

 farms operated by the Dominion Govern- 

 ment throughout the Dominion, is a wel- 

 come one. No man is better fitted for this 

 work or more deserves the appointment 

 than Mr. Macoun. He is known and re- 

 spected by fruit growers from the Atlantic 



