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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



September, 1910 



The Canadian Horticulturist 



PuUuhcd hr The Horticultural 

 PublUhinB Company, Limited 



PHrrKRBORO, ONTARIO 



EDITORIAL 



The Only Horticultural Magazine 

 in the Dominion 



OFificiAi. Oroan of thk Ontakio, Qubbbc, New 



Brunswick and Pkincb Kdwabd Island 



Frdit Growers' Associations 



H. Bbonbon Cowan, Managing Director 



t The Canadian Horticnlturist is published on 

 the 25th day of the month preceding date of 

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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 8,925 



February, 1910 8,967 



March, 1910 9,178 



April, 1910.1 9,410 



May, 1910 9,505 



June, 1910 .....9.723 



July, 1910 .....9,300 



August, 1910 8,832 



January, 1909 9,456 



February, 1909 9,310 



March, 1909 9,405 



April, 1909 9,482 



M^y,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 .107,6.38 



Average each iuue in 1907. 6,627 



1908. 8.695 



•• •• 1909. 8.970 



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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST, 



PETERBORO, ONTARIO. 



BfilTISH COLUMBIA PESTS 



Tlie very suggi'stion by an ea.stern grower 

 or paper, that an insect pest of any .serious 

 nature exists in British Cclumbia is suffi- 

 cient to lead the advocates of the fruit 

 interests of that province to work over time 

 denying the thought and casting aspersions 

 upon the originator. While we admire this 

 indication of provincial pride, we are net 

 blind to the fact that unless precautions are 

 taken it will ultimately prove an injury to 

 that province. 



Even when growers know that a pest is 

 becoming established it frequently is only 

 too difficult to induce them to take the ne- 

 cessary measures to stamp it out or control 

 its ravages. It is easy for most of us to 

 believe what we would like to know is true. 

 The continual claims, therefore, that serious 

 insect and fungus pests do not exist in 

 British Columbia are apt to lull the growers 

 of that province into a false sense of se- 

 curity and lead them to neglect to take the 

 ordinary precautions that it is essential that 

 they should if their interests are to be 

 properly safeguarded. 



In our May issue we ventured to make the 

 statement that some parts of British Col- 

 umbia still grow apples unmolested by the 

 Codling Moth. The June issue of The Fruit 

 Magazine, published at Vancouver, took ex- 

 ception to the statement and expressed 

 doubt as tc whether or not the editor of 

 The CAN.\Di.'iN Horticulturist could find a 

 Codling Moth in any part of British Colum- 

 bia. In the August issue of the same 

 magazine appears an article entitled "Cod- 

 ling Moth In British Columbia". This ar- 

 ticle admits that the Codling Moth has been 

 discovered in two spots in that province and 

 warns the growers that the fact must be 

 bravely faced. The public is asked to co- 

 operate with the provincial officials in 

 stamping out the pest. 



In 1890 the late Dr. Fletcher, Dominion 

 Entomologist discovered the Codling Moth 

 at Kamloops, Kaslo and Nelson. In 1908 in 

 one district one hundred and sixty orchards 

 were condemned for Codling Moth. 



Now that the British Columbia authorities 

 admit the presence of the pest and have 

 undertaken to stamp it out, prospects of its 

 being held under control are brighter than 

 they were when growers were being led to 

 believe that Codling Moth was unknown in 

 the province. 



MODIFICATIONS REQUIRED 



Serious hardship will result to the in- 

 terests of the iirofessional florists of Canada 

 unless modifications are made in the regu- 

 lations of the Dominion government pertain- 

 ing to the Destructive Insects and Pests 

 Act. The Act is admirably conceived but in 

 drafting it. it is clear that the government 

 had in mind mainly if not entirely, con- 

 ditions as they pertain to the large fruit 

 interests of the country. 



The conditions under which stock is hand- 

 led and grown by the large nurseries, and 

 by the fruit growers of the country in the 

 open are utterly different from those under 

 which the professional florist handles his 

 greenhouse stock. The great ex))ense in- 

 volved in the handling of such stock as the 

 florist grows makes it practically impossible 

 for such pests as the Gipsy and Brown-tail 

 mcths to gain a foothold in this country on 

 such stock'. 



At present much of the stock that the 



florists have been in the habit of importing 

 at periods that will enable them to market 

 their products for the early markets can- 

 not be imported any longer unless the Act 

 is amended. The omission of the pert of 

 Montreal as a port of entry is a second 

 decided weakness in the regulations. Now 

 that the objections of the florists to the 

 provisions of the Act have been made known 

 to the government, we may :easoiiably expert 

 that the government will find some means 

 of improving the regulations in those imr- 

 ticulars. 



COMMENDABLE WORK 



The statement made by Or. C. Gordon 

 Hewitt, Dominion Entomologist, at the 

 Convention of the Canadian Horticultural 

 Association in St. Catharines last month, 

 that during the past two years the Domin- 

 ion government has inspected some four 

 million plants during their importation in- 

 to Canada, thereby dscovering five hundred 

 and nine nests of the Brown-tail and Gipsy 

 Moths shows that good work is being done 

 by the Dominion government to prevent the 

 establishment of these pests in Canada. The 

 state of Massachusetts alone has spent over 

 a million dollars fighting these pests. 



The sums that have been expended by the 

 national government of the United States as 

 well as by the New England states during 

 the past few years fighting these pests are 

 enormous. They amount to many millions of 

 dollars. Canadian fruit growers, therefore, 

 will do well to support the Dominion gov- 

 ernment in its work. It is fortunate that 

 the Dominion Entomologist, Dr. Hewitt ap- 

 preciates the importance of the position and 

 that he is taking every precaution to guard 

 our interests. 



THE' SMOKE NUISANCE 



There are sections in many of our Can- 

 adian towns and cities in which the lives 

 of many of the citizens are made miser- 

 able owing to the thick palls of smoke that 

 factories and locomotives are permitted to 

 emit for many hours every day. This smoke 

 affects the health of the people living in 

 its vicinity, it discolors adjoining buildings, 

 destroys foliage and invades homes, when 

 windows or doors happen to be left open, 

 thereby destroying furniture. The nuis- 

 ance can be and should be abolished or at 

 least greatly reduced. 



After suffering from the smoke nuisance 

 for many years residents in various towns 

 and cities of the United States were finally 

 led to grapple with the problem. Investi- 

 gations were conducted which show that by 

 the installation of proper machinery and 

 care in firing the engines the smoke nuis- 

 ance can be abolished. The American Civic 

 .\ssociation took up the question some years 

 ago and forced it to be an issue in a num- 

 ber of cities. 



Such cities as New York. Philadelphia, 

 Springfield, Mass., Cleveland, Ohio, and 

 Pittsburg, Pa., have practically abolished 

 the smoke nuisance. In many cases the 

 cities were forced to take action against 

 the railway companies and manufacturing 

 establishments that persisted in defying 

 their ordinances. In most cases only a 

 few prosecutions were required to convince 

 offenders of the need for improvement. In 

 Cleveland, Ohio, it is estimated that 50°,' 

 of the smoke nuisance has been abated since 

 this question has been dealt with. In New 

 York city one company which broke the 

 smoke by-law was fined $500. 



Toronto has already taken action. Pro- 

 perty Commissioner R. C. Harris reports 

 that the e^orts of the city have accom- 

 nlished a great deal of good. People who 

 formerly treated the enactment lightly are 



