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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



November, 1910 



The Canadian Horticulturist 



Publbhcd br Tha Horticultiiral 

 Publishins Company. Limitad 



PByrKRBORO, ONTARIO 



The Only Horticultural Magazine 

 in the Dominion 



Official Organ of thk Ontario. Qukbec. New 



Brunswick and Prince Edward Island 



Fruit Growers' Associations 



H. Bbonbon Cowan. Managing Director 



1 The Canadian Horticultnrist U published on 

 the 25th day of the month preceding date or 

 lasne. 



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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 Bg- 

 ures given are exclusive of samples and spoiled 

 copies Most months, including the sample copies, 

 from 11,000 to 12,000 copies of The Canadian Hor- 

 ticulturist are mailed to people known to be in- 

 terested In the growing of iruits. flowers or vege- 

 tables. 



January. 1910 8.926 



February. 1910 8.967 



March, 1910 9.178 



April. 1910 9,410 



May. 1910 9.505 



June. 1910 9.723 



July. 1910 9,300 



August. 1910 8.832 



September. 1910 8.776 



October. 1910 8.784 



January. 1909 9.456 



February, 1909. 9.310 



March, 1909 9,4(» 



April, 1909 9.482 



May. 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 .107,638 



Avaraie aach ixua In 1907, 6.627 



1908. 8,69S 



1909, 8,970 



Sworn detailed statements will be mailed upon 

 application. 



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 culturist to feel that they can deal with our 

 advertisers with our assurance of the advertis- 

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 subscriber, therefore, have good cause to be 

 dissatisfied with the treatment he receives from 

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 Should we find reason, even in the slightest 

 degree, we will discontinue immediately the pub- 

 lication of their advertisements in The Horti- 

 culturist. Should the circumstances warrant, 

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THB OAHAPIAN HOBTIOtrLTtmiST. 



PETBSBOaO. ONTAEIO 



EDITORIAL 



ONTARIO'S APPLE INDUSTRY 



The remarkable feature about the apple 

 industry in Ontario is that instead of be- 

 ing on the decline it should bo on the in- 

 crease. Ontario is destined to grew more 

 and more apples. This province cannot 

 compete with the we.st in the growing of 

 grain or the production of feeding cattle. 

 It can grow apples to perfection and pro- 

 fitably. 



Every person who has had any experi- 

 ence admits that when the average apple 

 orchard is given proper care it can be 

 made to yield large returns. One of the 

 demonstration orchards in Simcoe county 

 this year, which for years, in its neglected 

 state, had not produced over fifty dollars 

 worth of fruit in a season, netted returns 

 of $300 for one acre. A similar orchard 

 in Dundas county produced $400 worth of 

 fruit. Scores of private fruit growers in 

 Ontario, who have discovered the immense 

 possibilities of their orchards, are increas- 

 ing their orchard areas and dropping other 

 less profitable branches of farm work. 



The decline is due to but one reason : On- 

 tario farmers do not realize how profit- 

 able their orchards may be made. They 

 need to be shown . The Ontario Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture has done good work 

 cf an educational nature as far as it has 

 gone. It has not gone far enough. British 

 Columbia has voted $10,000 for the estab- 

 lishment of demonstration orchards in all 

 the principal fruit growing sections of that 

 province. Ontario should make an even 

 larger appropriation for similar work. We 

 should not repeat the mistake of spending 

 one dollar where five dollars is required. 

 The decline in our apple industry is due 

 to the fact that we have been content to 

 put forth but feeble efforts to effect im- 

 provement. Within five years the whole 

 situation can be changed if the Ontario 

 Department of Agriculture, Lacked up by 

 the fruit growers organizations, will but 

 put forth the necessary effort. Hon. Mr. 

 Duff can make a name for himself if he 

 will but grasp this opportunity. 



FRUIT PILFERING 



The intimation made by one of the chief 

 officials of an express company, to the re- 

 presentative of the fruit growers who re- 

 cently drew his attention to some par- 

 ticularly bad cases of fruit pilfering on the 

 part of the employees of the companies, 

 that the quantity stolen was so small as 

 to be almost beneath notice and blaming 

 the fruit growers for poor packing, indi- 

 cates that the heads of the companies are 

 even more responsible than the employees 

 for the prevailing unsatisfactory conditions. 

 As long as the heads of the companies make 

 light of such charges laxity on the part 

 of the employees may be expected. 



It is fortunate that the express companies 

 have been placed under the jurisdiction of 

 the Railway Commission. The fruit grow- 

 ers now have a better chance to press such 

 matters as this to a finish. It should be 

 possible for them to obtain rulings from 

 the Railway Commission that will make 

 the heads of the express companies realize 

 that this matter cannot be trifled with. A 

 f«w prosecutions in police courts of em- 

 ployees caught stealing fruit will bring 

 about an improvement among the em- 

 ployee*. The express companies would be 

 doing only their duty were they to under- 

 take ih« prosecution of those of their em- 



ployees who are found gnilty cf these 

 practices. 



THE UNSIGHTLY BILL BOARD 



Although the efforts of the Ontario 

 Horticultural Association to induce the 

 Ontario Legislature to grant municipali- 

 ties the power to control bill boards and 

 bill board advertising within their limits 

 did net prove successful, this is no reason 

 why the matter should be allowed to drop. 

 Even if the members of the Legislature 

 may be personally opposed to legislation 

 of this nature tnev cannot safely with- 

 hold from municipalities the power tc deal 

 with questions that properly lie within 

 their jurisdiction. 



In the United States the American Civic 

 Association has prepared a model bill 

 dealing with this matter. The regulation 

 of bill boards is a common practice in 

 many of the large cities in Europe. Ar- 

 rangements should be made this month by 

 the members of the Ontario Horticultural 

 Association, at the time of their annual 

 convention in Toronto for a continuation 

 of their efforts in this direction. 



The uncertainty of life has been brought 

 home to us very clearly, during the past 

 year, by the passing away of so many who 

 have been prominent in horticultural 

 affairs in Canada. It is only about a year 

 since we lost Mr. John S. Pearce, Super- 

 intendent of Parks, London, Ontario, and 

 a director of the Ontario Horticultural 

 Association. Later there passed into the 

 great beyond Mr. Murray Pettit, of Win- 

 ona, Ontario, one of the foremost fruit 

 growers of the Dominion. More recently 

 we have lost Mr. R. C. Steele, of the Steel 

 Briggs Seed Co., of Toronto; Mr. H. H. 

 Peart, the Director of the Horticultural 

 Experiment Station at Jordan Harbor, 

 Ontario; and Mr. W. E. Wellington, of 

 the firm of Stone & Wellington, nursery- 

 men, and a past president of the Ontario 

 Fruit Growers' Association, whose death 

 was announced in our last issue. This 

 month we record the death of Mr. A. M. 

 Smith, of St. Catharines, the only sur- 

 viving charter member of the Ontario 

 Fruit Growers' Association. Such a suc- 

 cession of deaths may well lead each of us 

 to ask ourselves in all earnestness if we 

 are prepared to meet the Great Judge 

 of us all. 



An effort should be made at the ap- 

 proaching convention in Toronto of the 

 Ontario Horticultural Association to se- 

 cure a report of the work undertaken this 

 year by the Toronto Horticultural Society 

 in the matter of civic improvement. Dur- 

 ing the past season this society adopted 

 the block or square system of improve- 

 ment that has proved so successful in por- 

 tions of the United States. Prizes were 

 offered for the best lawns and gardens in 

 specified blocks in the city. It is under- 

 stood that the work has met with a gratify- 

 ing degree of success. If this is the case 

 other societies in the province should be 

 able to introduce this system or modifica- 

 tions cf it in their respective localities. 

 The approaching convention will offer a 

 splendid opportunity for the consideration 

 of this question. 



Evidence of hew far paternalism in 

 municipal matters can be carried has been 

 afforded recently by the discovery that in 

 the citv of Toronto the civic by-laws re- 

 lating to the construction of modern green- 

 houses are so far out cf date that it li 

 impossible for a florist to erect the modem 

 type of light greenhouse construction that 

 is being almost universally followed 

 throu^out Canada and the United States. 



