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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



December, 1910 



The Canadian Horticulturist 



Publbhed by The Horticultural 

 Publuhins Companr, limited 



I»B?rH:ilBORO, ONTARIO 



EDITORIAL 



The Only Horticultural Magazine 

 in the Dominion 



Official Organ of the Ontario, Quebec, New 



Brunswick and Prince Edward Island 



Fruit Growers' Associations 



H. Bbonson Cowan, ManacrlnK Director 



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CIRCULATION STATEMENT. 

 The following is a sworn statement of the net 

 paid circulation of The Canadian Horticulturist 

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 ures given are exclusive of samples and spoiled 

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Januarr, 1910 8,925 



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August, 1909 8.570 



September. 1909 8,605 



October. 1909 8,675 



November. 1909 8.750 



December, 1909 8,875 



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Avermffe each iMue in 1907, 6.627 



1908. 8,695 



1909, 8,970 



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Onmmanlcations should be addressed: 



THB CANADIAN HOETICULTUEI8T. 



PETBBBOBO. ONTABIO 



WELL DONE, BRITISH COLUMBIA 



We must take ofl our hats to the fruit 

 growers of British Columbia. They have 

 made good their claims to have one of if 

 net finest apple producing districts in the 

 world by holding the greatest apple show 

 on record and capturing the principal 

 awards with their own fruit. They deserve 

 their success. The obstacles they over- 

 came seemed, to weaker men, unsurmount- 

 able. They have proved that in addition 

 to growing fine fruit they have a strong 

 courageous people. Thev are Canadians, 

 and Canadians in the East are proud of 

 their success. We have heard so much 

 about the apnles produced in Oregon and 

 Washington that we rejoice te know that 

 our brother fruit growers in British Col- 

 umbia have proved their ability to more 

 than hold their own with the best that 

 can be produced in those famous districts. 



British Columbia growers accomplished 

 what thev did practically alone and un- 

 aided. Their success is the mere remark- 

 able. As we predicted would be the case, 

 eastern growers did not show at Vancoti- 

 ver. This was not because of lack of in- 

 terest or to any inclination not to help. 

 It was due solely to the fact that there is 

 no market for eastern fruit en the Pacific 

 Coast nor is there much possibility that 

 there ever will be. Eastern growers real- 

 ized that the expense of exhibiting would 

 be enormous and that the resultant bene- 

 fits, even should they prove successful, 

 would be practically nil. For these rea- 

 sons, and these reasons only, they did not 

 take part. Nor is there much prospect 

 that these conditions will change for many 

 years to come. Until they do, British 

 Columbia growers need not expect to see 

 much eastern fruit exhibited at their 

 shows. As far, therefore, as the repre- 

 sentative nature cf the exhibits was con- 

 cerned our contention that the show would 

 be more British Columbian than national 

 in character has been borne out. 



In another light, however, the show was 

 national in every sense of the word. It 

 has quickened the pulse of fruit growers 

 from one end of Canada to the other, it 

 has given them a new pride in their vo- 

 cation, renewed confidence in their future 

 and a desire to see their provinces do as 

 well as has British Columbia. For this 

 reason we are deeply indebted to the fruit 

 growers cf British Columbia, and especi- 

 ally to the promoter of the recent great 

 show, Mr. Maxwell Smith. Now let the 

 East fall into line and do its part to help 

 on the groat cause of fruit growing in 

 Canada. 



ONTARIO'S OPPORTUNITY 



The directors of the Ontario Fruit 

 Growers' Association have been requested 

 to consider the advisability of holding a 

 national apple show in Ontario during the 

 fall of 1911- The opportunity is a great 

 one and should be utilized. 



What Ontario needs more than any- 

 thing el.se is leadership. We have the re- 

 sources, the people, the markets and the 

 opportunities. What we require is a few 

 men of courage, faith and resource who 

 will undertake to demonstrate these facts 

 to the world. Our people are ready, nay, 

 more ! they are impatient to fall in be- 

 hind such leaders and to support them to 

 the limit. We must find these men. The 

 opportunity should develop them. 



The armouries in Toronto is the ideal 

 location for the holding of this show. Red 

 tape should not be allowed to prevent 

 its use for such a purpose. It is not 

 only of national but of international im- 

 portance. If necessary, every member of 

 Parliament in Ontario, and even those 

 from other provinces as well, should be 

 pledged to pupport the holding cf the 

 show in these buildings. Local conventions 

 of fruit growers should be held in every 

 leading apple producing section of Ontario 

 and arrangements made for the exhibiting 

 of large displa.vs, in fact car load lots, from 

 each section at the proposed national 

 show. Arrangements will need to be made 

 for careful pruning and spraying of or- 

 chards in each district, but with the as- 

 sistance of the local branches of the de- 

 partment of agriculture, this should be 

 possible, and gc much greater will be the 

 resultant benefit from the show. 



As British Columbia finds a market for 

 much of its fruit in the east it could be 

 expected to make a large display, in fact 

 it has already offered to do so. Quebec 

 should have a full crop next year, and 

 could be expected tc make an extensive 

 exhibit of very fine fruit. The Maritime 

 provinces also would be likely to play an 

 important part. 



The Ontario government should put up 

 at least $15,000 and the city of Toronto 

 $10,000 towards the expenses. The little 

 city of Vancouver gave some $7,000 to- 

 wards its recent ehow. The Dominion 

 government might well contribute also. 

 Better still, it could arrange to bring over 

 from Great Britain parties of people likely 

 to be interested in what could be seen at 

 such a show. Thousands of dollars could 

 be raised also by private subscriptions. 

 These are merely suggestions as to a few 

 things that might be done. By holding a 

 greater apple show than has been On- 

 tario can demonstrate at one stroke that 

 it is the peer of any apple producing section 

 in the world; it can increase the value of 

 every acre of orchard land in the pro- 

 vince ; it can set new standards for fruit 

 growing and packing; it can attract the 

 best class of immigration ; and it can 

 prove that the fruit growers of the pro- 

 vince are able to hold their own with the 

 best fruit growers anywhere. 



UNSATISFACTORY ARRANGEMENT 



The announcement that hereafter the ex- 

 periment station at Jordan Harbour, Ont., 

 is to be in charge of a farm superintendent 

 acting under the direction of the director 

 of the fruit branch, whose office is located 

 in Toronto, is thoroughly unsatisfactory. 

 Fruit growers, particularly tnose in the 

 Niagara District, should protest against it 

 vigorously. In making, or in consenting 

 to this appointment, for it is stated that 

 Hon. Mr. Whitnev had a sa.v in it, Hon. 

 Mr. Duff has given fruit growers strong 

 reason to believe that he does not appre- 

 ciate either the importance or the needs of 

 the fruit interests of Ontario. 



The new farm superintendent, Mr. A. D. 

 Harkness, is a fine man personally and an 

 experienood farmer and apple grower. He 

 lacks the training that only a complete and 

 thorough agrioiltural college course can 

 supply, and that he requires to enable him 

 to handle thoroughly and accurately such 

 dolicate work as is involved in the scien- 

 tific breeding and hybridizing of all classes 

 of fruit particularly the tender varieties. 

 He has had practically no experience in 

 the growing of such tender fruits as peaches 

 and many varieties of grapes and pears, and 

 yet he is to be largely in charge of a sta- 

 tion where the growing of such fruits must 



