August, 1910 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



193 



of these organizations to increase their 

 membership. Large organizations which it 

 Lwas thought had about reached the limit of 

 'their possibilities as regards membership 

 are showing a gratifying increase this year. 

 Last year the membershp of the Ontario 

 Fruit Growers' Association was less than 

 800. Already this year it is creeping close 

 to the 900 mark. The Toronto Horticultural 

 Society has increased its membership from 

 315 last year to over 700 this year. The 

 Hamilton Horticultural Society, which had 

 a membership last year of about 350, has 

 this year reached almost the 500 mark. Pro- 

 portionate increases have taken place in the 

 membership of many of the smaller societies. 

 This evidence of increased interest in hor- 

 ticultural matters is gratifying and indicates 

 that the improvement that has been especial- 

 ly noticeable during the past couple of 

 .years, has been natural and therefore may 

 be expected to continue. 



the west but in every case little or no at- 

 tention is paid to the gathering of authentic 

 reports covering the condition of the lead- 

 ing vegetable crops. There is room, there- 

 fore, for good work in this direction by the 

 Ontario Vegetable Growers' Association. 

 The Association is to be commended for 

 recognizing this fact and taking advantage 

 of this opportunity. 



The practice of planting trees to commem- 

 orate public events is not ns common as we 

 might wish. It should be revived. What 

 are now handsone trees were olanted in 

 Canada by our present king when he visited 

 Canada as a youth. These trees now have 

 errisiderable historical interest We should 

 revive this means of celebrating important 

 public events. 



The minister of agriculture for Ontario 

 ir.t-i been marie the subject of unfavorable 

 criticism recently by Mr. J. W. Flavelle, of 

 Toronto, a supporter of the government and 

 a large dealer in farm products, on the 

 ground that the department of agriculture 

 is not doing nearly all it might to promote 

 the agricultural interests of the i)rovince. 

 There arc numerous ways in which the fruit 

 in-lustry in Ontario could be assisted with 

 profit to the province. 



The Ontario Vegetable Growers' Associa- 

 tion has again commenced the publication of 

 monthly crop reports. The sending out of 

 these reports should never have been dis- 

 continued. All manner of crop renorts are 

 prepared under various auspices, including 

 those of the Gensus Division of the Domin- 

 ion Government, and of the Bureau of In- 

 dustries of the Ontario Government, as well 

 IS tho.se by banks and railway companies in 



Some Questions Answered 



Every little while we are asked why we 

 do not publish mere reports in The C.\n- 

 .\Di.'\N Horticulturist about the meetings 

 of local horticultural societies, fruit grow- 

 ers associations and vegetable growers or- 

 ganizations. One of our readers recently 

 suggested that we should have a list printed 

 in each issue cf the paper of the names of 

 the presidents and secretaries of the dif- 

 ferent horticultural societies, so that, those 

 of our subscribers who might wish to get in 

 touch with these societies would be able to 

 do so. The same reader suggested that we 

 should devote a page or two in each issue 

 to the doings of the horticultural societies. 



At one time The Canadi.\n Horticul- 

 Ti'RisT did conduct a department for horti- 



cultural societies. After giving it a thor- 

 ough trial it was finally discontinued. We 

 found that the great majority cf our readers 

 were not much interested in meetings, or ex- 

 hibitions held by societies other than their 

 own. The local papers invariably printed 

 full reports of the doings of their local so- 

 cieties. Thus, these reports by the time 

 they appeared in The Can.\dian Horticul- 

 turist were cf no news value and of but 

 little interest to those of our readers who 

 should have been most interested in them. 

 We found further, that owing to the fact 

 that The Canadian Horticulturist circu- 

 lates in all parts of the Dominion there were 

 sc many events of this kind taking place 

 each month throughout Canada that it was 

 an utter i'npossibility to report them at all 

 fully, and nothing else was considered 

 satisfactory, in the limited space at our dis- 

 posal. 



The majority of the readers of The Can- 

 adian Hortict'Lti^rist prefer to see articles 

 dealing with the culture of fruit, flowers 

 and vegetables, to reading a large number 

 of reports of meetings in which they are 

 not ('irectly interested and largely similar 

 in nature. Whenever we hear of a horticul- 

 tural society or other organization undertak- 

 ing work that is out of the ordinary we en- 

 deavor to describe the departure for the 

 benefit of our readers generally. In the 

 same way we endeavor to give full reports 

 of all meetings of provincial organis^ations, 

 such as the provincial fruit and vegetable 

 growers' asociations in different provinces, 

 and the Ontario Porticultural Association, 

 which are of more than local interest. 



Each month columns of interesting read- 

 ing material are crowded out of The Can- 

 adian Horticulturist through lack of space. 

 This makes it necessary that we shall en- 

 deavor to publish each month only such 

 items as are likely to be of the greatest in- 

 terest to the greatest number. 



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