December, i 910 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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necessarily be made a specialty. These ob- 

 jections, however, would not be sc serious 

 were Mr. Harkness to be in constant touch 

 with a specialist and recognized authority 

 in these matters. He is not to have that 

 advantage. The chief of the station, Mr. 

 P. W. Hodgetts, is to be located in Toronto 

 sixty miles away. 



The appointment also is not fair to Mr. 

 Hodgetts. As director of the fruit branch 

 of the Department of Agriculture, secret- 

 ary of the Ontario Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 ticn, secretary of the Ontario Horticultural 

 Exhibition, and secretary of the Ontario 

 Bee Keepers' Association, as well as being 

 responsible for numerous other duties, Mr. 

 Hodgetts has done excellent work but al- 

 ready he has as much work as one man 

 can perform and do it properly. If here- 

 after he is to be held responsible for the 

 performance of the exacting duties invol- 

 ved in the management of an experiment 

 station, such as that at Jordan Harbour, 

 it can only mean that the work he is now 

 doing must suffer, and that at a time when 

 there is urgent necessity that it shall be 

 greatly extended if the fruit interests of 

 the whole province are to receive the at- 

 tention they require. 



If the Jordan Harbour Experiment Sta- 

 tion is to be made a success it must be 

 placed under the control of the most ex- 

 perienced horticultural authority and ex- 

 perimentalist that can be found, and this 

 man should be free to give his full time and 

 attention to the work. It is somewhat re- 

 markable that the government should have 

 made this new and important rearrange- 

 ment in the system of management without 

 having consulted the prominent fruit grow- 

 ers and others who form the board of con- 

 trol of the station . 



B. C. National Apple Sho^v a Huge Success 



By the British Columbian Representative of The Canadian Horticulturist 



The announcement that the Dominion 

 Department of Agriculture is arranging for 

 another Dominion fruit conference next fall 

 is welcome. It comes none too soon. In 

 fact, it should have been held before this. 

 There is no standard box for pears, cherries 

 or peaches nor any standard package for 

 peaches. There are problems arising in 

 connection with the jam factories, cold 

 storage, the ex])ress companies and trans- 

 portation that require attention. In the 

 event of Ontario deciding to hold a national 

 apple show next fall, how would it do to 

 have the Dominion fruit conference held 

 in connection tBerewith or immediately 

 thereafter P 



The great success of the annual conven- 

 tion of the Ontario Horticultural Associa- 

 tion last month in Toronto only serves to 

 show what splendid work that organiza- 

 tion is performing on behalf of the horti- 

 cultural societies of Ontario. Every so- 

 ciety in the province should affiliate with 

 it if only for the selfish reason that by so 

 doing it will best advance its own in- 

 terests. 



This year Mr. E. C. Beaman of Newcastle, 

 Ont., and his son, W. E. Beaman, obtain- 

 ed 132 barrels of Wilmott pears off half 

 an acre of ground. Some of these pears 

 sold for as high as $7.00 a barrel. They 

 avoragod about $5.50 to the barrel, or 

 $726 tc the half acre. How is that for 

 fruit lands in Ontario? We have thou- 

 sands of acres of land in Ontario that 

 could do as well. It is time that we be- 

 gan in some systematic way, to make 

 these facts known to the world. 



BRITISH Columbia has done it. It 

 has held the greatest apple show in 

 the history of the world. In its first 

 , attempt it has surpassed the Na- 

 tional apple shows held in the great 

 fruit districts in the Unitod States. It 

 has excelled, to an extent that almost 

 makes a comparison to its great show a 

 slight, the greatest shows of the kind ever 

 attempted in eastern Canada. It has set 

 the people of Vancouver and of British 

 Columbia wild with enthusiasm over the 

 groat fruit resources of the province and 

 incidentallv it has advertised to the world, 

 as nothing else could have done, the tremen- 

 dous possibilities for fruit production in 

 this province. 



From start to finish the show, which was 

 held in Vancouver, and lasted from Octo- 

 ber 31 to November 5. surpassed the most 

 sanguine expectations of even the most 

 optimistic people of this province. It will 

 go down in history as having been a won- 

 derful achievement for those who were be- 

 hind it. The fact that it was all put 



Mayor Taylor, of Vancouver, and other 

 notables took part in the opening pro- 

 ceedings. 



Those wlio had visited the Big Show in 

 Spokane in the fall of 1909, were unani- 

 mous in declaring that both for the num- 

 ber of exhibits and the qualit.v, appear- 

 ance and color of the fruit shown, the 

 Vancouver display excelled that made in 

 the United States city a .vear ago. Prof. 

 Van Deman, the United States expert on 

 apples, declared that he was unable to find 

 language with which to express his ad- 

 miration of the superb beauty and quality 

 of the winning carload of Jonathan apples 

 shown by the Kelowna Farmers' Exchange. 



EXTENT OF THE EXHIBITS 

 Some idea of the extent of the exhibits 

 may be gained from the fact that there 

 were 1,300,000 apples shown. There were 

 10,000 boxes of 194 different varieties of 

 fruit. There were 3,424 distinct exhibits. 

 Of these there were twelve car load entries. 

 There were 79 entries in the ten box class, 

 and 724 single box entries. The plate ex- 



K PirH«a «f tlie Exiiibit •( B>xeil Frait Shawl in the]A«nex at the^Cmnadiai National Apple Sbow at Vanconver 



(Note that the exhibits are ten boxes hisrh on both sides.) 



I enjoy reading The Canadian Hortioul- 

 TTTRisT very much. Am sure it cannot be 

 anything but a great help to anybody in- 

 terested in hnrticuIture.--J. F, Weber, 

 Kent Co., Ont. 



through in less than one year's efforts adds 

 to the wonder. 



So great was the attendance at the open- 

 ing ceremonies many were unable to gain 

 admittance. A large procession, compris- 

 ing bands, the invited guests, mounted 

 police, automobiles, members of the city 

 council, and others lined up and marched 

 through the city to attend the opening pro- 

 ceedings on the first day. Previous to 

 this a crowd had alread.y gathered in the 

 building. By the time the procession 

 reached the hall, the entrance became 

 blocked, and large numbers were unable 

 to gain admission until some of those who 

 attended the formal part of the opening 

 had retired. It is estimated that during 

 the week over 30,000 people attended the 

 show. The gate receipts amounted to over 

 $10,000.00. 



THE 0EIEATE8T EVER 



"The Greatest Anple Show in the Great- 

 est City, of the Greate.st Province in the 

 Greatest Dominion in the Greatest Em- 

 pire in the history of the World" were the 

 words of Manager Maxwell Smith in a 

 rousing speech on the opening day, and 

 every one in attendance was ready to 

 agree with him. The Premier of the pro- 

 vince, Hon. Mr. McBride, Hon. J. W. 

 Bowser, Bishop De Pencier. Lieut. -Gover- 

 nor Patterson, Martin Burrell, M.P., 



hibits totalled 1.944 entries. There were 

 eight district displays. B.v-products, and 

 other industries in touch with apple grow- 

 ing, were represented by 119 entries. There 

 were exhibits from the neighboring states 

 of Washington and Oregon, and from Tas- 

 mania, as well as some from Eastern Can- 

 ada, shown by the Dominion Department 

 of Agriculttire, so that the show was not 

 only national but international in char- 

 acter. 



the outstanding feattjrb 



The centre of attraction was the oar of 

 Jonathans packed bv the Kelowna Far- 

 mers' Exchange, bearing the blue ribbon 

 as best car of Jorathans, and the decorated 

 blue ribbon for fir.st in the carload sweep- 

 stakes. Like all the oar lots this contained 

 600 boxes. So even was the grading that 

 a uniform pack was maintained — 120 ap- 

 ples to a box, no more, no less, 72.000 

 apples to the car. So uniform and firm 

 was the pack, so perfect the alignment and 

 so correct the bulge that the judges de- 

 clared it perfection by giving it full points 

 in everything but rating, or 990 out of 

 1,000 points. Snitzenberg and a couple 

 of other varieti<\s are rated at 10 (highest 

 quality) bv the .\Mi<>rio\n Po'i'ologicpl So- 

 cietv, '.vhile Jonathan is rated 8.9. Those 

 in a position to know unhesitatingly de- 

 p)»^^(^ it the most perfect P»r of apples 



