February, igi2 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTUKIST 



39 



The directors of thp On"ario Fruit Grow- 

 ers' Association made tln-pe thoroughly sat^ 

 i'factory rroves at their recent meeting in 

 Toronto when they decid-d to push more 

 I'iorously the matter of obtaining hotter 

 treatment from the great transportation 

 companies, determining; to urge the pro- 

 vincial government to maintain a market 

 commissioner in the western fnarkets dur- 

 ing the summer season, as is done by Brit^ 

 ish Columbia, and in arranging to hold an 

 orchard competition throughout the prov- 

 ince. These st-eps are all in the right direc- 

 tion. Each is likely to be attended by far- 

 reaching results. The provincial govern- 

 ment should not hesitate for a moment in 

 acceding to the request for the appointment 

 of a market commissioner. 



It is unfortunate that the province of 



Answers to Your Questions 



"What style of sprayer is best 

 suited to my needs?" "Who sells 

 them?" "How much do they cost?" 

 "What sprays should I use to pro- 

 duce the best results?" "When and 

 how should they be applied?" 

 "Where can I buy these prepara- 

 tions ?" "How much do they cost 7" 



Many of you who read this special 

 spraying issue of The Canadian Hor- 

 ticulturist are asking such questions 

 as these. We have tried to answer 

 them as far as possible, in some of 

 the special articles appearing in this 

 issue. These articles, you will notice, 

 are by experts and they are timely, 

 as practically all our articles are. 

 There are a number of questions 

 that, of course, we could not well 

 answer in our reading columns. 

 For answer to these questions, look 

 through our advertising columns. 

 There you will find the announce- 

 ments of individuals and firms who 

 handle goods such as you will need 

 in connection with your spraying op- 

 erations, and whom you will find 

 not only ready to sell you their 

 goods, but to give you much useful 

 information on spraying and spray- 

 ing machines that may be worth 

 many dollars to you during the com- 

 ing season. 



Many of the advertisers in this 

 number of the Canadian Horticul- 

 turist publish interesting booklets or 

 catalogues, which not only describe 

 the goods they have to sell, but give 

 much valuable information as well. 

 THESE BOOKLETS AND CATA- 

 LOGUES WILL BE GLADLY SENT 

 FREE OF CHARGE to all who are 

 interested in the subject with which 

 they deal. 



Look through the advertisements 

 In this number of the Canadian Hor- 

 ticulturist and write to those adver- 

 tisers whose announcements interest 

 you. They are using space in our 

 columns because they believe they 

 have something you want, and be- 

 cause WE BELIEVE THEIR GOODS 

 ARE RELIABLE, AND THAT THEY 

 WILL DO WHAT THEY PROMISE 

 TO DO. Further than this, you may 

 take advantage of our protective pol- 

 icy, given on the opposite page, if 

 when writing advertisers you say: 

 "I saw your 'ad', in The Canadian 

 Horticulturist". 



We do not admit Advertisers to our 

 Columns except such as we believe art 

 thoroughly reliable. 



Ontario is going to Io.se the services of Prof. 

 ■J. W. Crow of the Guelph Agricultural Col- 

 lege. It is time that the Ontario Deparf>- 

 ment of Agriculture realized a little more 

 clearly than it does that it must pay good 

 salaries if it expects to hold good men. This 

 latest loss draws attention once more to the 

 nenny-wise-pound-foolish policy adopted by 

 the department a year ago. when it decided 

 to try and save the .salarv of a re-sident 

 director at the Jordan Harbor Experiment 

 Station. The fruit interests of Ontario are 

 of sufficient importance to warrant a more 

 liberal expenditure, and it is to be hoped 

 that the Minister of Agriculture for the 

 province will soon recognize this fact. 



PUBLISHER'S DESK 



We hope that you wiU like this Special 

 Spraying Number of The C.^nadun Horti- 

 COTiTTTRiST with its four-color process illus- 

 tration on the front cover and its season- 

 able, instructive articles on spraying and 

 other timely subjects. This is one of the 

 special numbers that we told you last year 

 we were planning to give you this year. 

 While it does not equal our ideal by any 

 means, still we trust it will be taken as a 

 foretaste of still better things to come. 



In our March issue the question of fer- 

 tilizers will be given considerable promi- 

 nence. Two instructive articles on this sub- 

 ject that will appear will include one en- 

 titled "What Tests of Commercial Fertil- 

 izers Have Shown," by Profe-ssor R. Har- 

 court, of the Guelph Agricultural College, 

 and another, "Fertilizers for the Fruit 

 Grower," by Mr. A. Bonar Balfour, of 

 Port Dalhousie. There will also be articles 

 dealing with spraying and pruning that will 

 be helpful and practical. 



In the floral department we expect to 

 publish an article by Mr. E. I. Mepsted of 

 Ottawa, giving timely, practical suggestions 

 to the flower grower. One article sent in 

 by Mr. Mepsted for our January issue 

 reached us too late for publication. Mr. 

 Mepsted was to have let us have an article 

 for this February issue, but was prevented 

 from sending it by illness. In the March 

 issue we will publi.s)h another int;eresting 

 description of a Canadian garden, which 

 this time we expect will be located in Ham- 

 ilton. There will be an article also entitled 

 "Flowers for Shady Places," by Mr. Wm. 

 Hunt, of the Guelph Agricultural College, 

 and an article, "Vines for All Purposes," 

 by Mr. F. E. Buck, of the Central Experi- 

 mental Farm, Ottawa, whose interesting 

 de.'^cription of Mr. Whyte's garden appears 

 in this issue. The Vegetable Department 

 will also be full of interesting information. 

 As usual, all departments will be profusel.v 

 illustrated. Watch for our March Number. 



Great preparations are being made also 

 for our April issue, which will be our Gar- 

 dening and Spring Planting Number. _ It 

 will be crammed full of interesting articles 

 for the amateur flower grower and will ap- 

 pear just at the season when plans for next 

 summer's garden will have reached one of 

 their most interesting sitagee. 



her showed an increase in value of advertis- 

 ing carried of over 55 per cent, as compared 

 with the January issue of 1911 shows that 

 advertisers are recognizing more than ever 

 before that The Canadian Horticulturist 

 is the one Canadian medium through which 

 to reach fruit growers and others interested 

 in general horticulture. 



Our readers wiU notice the unusually 

 large amount of spray and sprayer adver- 

 tising appearing in this number of The 

 Canadian Horticulturist. Pr.ictically ev- 

 ery leading manufacturer of sprays and 

 spray pumps doing business in Canada is 

 represented in this number, there being in 

 all nearly nine pages of this class of adver- 

 tising. This_ special spraying number, there- 

 fore, contains not only several instructive 

 articles on the subject of spraying, but also 

 acts as a directory of firms who handle 

 goods such as you are apt to require in con- 

 nection with your spraying operations. 



This number of The Canadian Horticul- 

 turist is the largest number we have ever 

 published, and while we are not yet able to 

 secure full details, we believe this number 

 sets a now high water mark not only in 

 size but also in point of the value of ad- 

 vertising carried and in the number of paid 

 subscriptions, which now number nearly 

 11,000. The fact that our January nuni- 



Vegetablc Growers Active 



The annual meeting of the Ontario 

 Vegetable Growers' Association was held in 

 the office of the secretary-treasurer. Parlia- 

 ment Buildings, Toronto, on January 9th. 

 All the branches were represented. 



The following officers were elected for 

 1912: President, Tlios. Del worth, Weston : 

 first vice-president, C. W. Baker, Tamb- 

 lings; second vice-president, W, J. Kerr, 

 Ottawa; secretary and editor, J. Lockie 

 Wilson, Toronto; executive: Tlios. Del- 

 worth, C. W. Baker, W. J. Kerr, J. Lockie 

 Wilson, F. F. Reeves, C. N. Weaver; repre- 

 sentative to Canadian Nation.Tl, Jas. Dan- 

 dridge, Humber Bay ; repre.sentatives to 

 Horticultural Exhibition : Messrs Jos. Rush, 

 F._F. Reeves, Thos. Delworth and Jas. Dan- 

 dridge. 



Arrangements were made to largel.y in- 

 crease the quantity of sieed potatoes grown 

 for this association in northern Ontario. 

 For the last two years experiments have 

 been conducted by the vegetable growers, 

 and the seed received from the northern 

 country proved very .satisfactory, and will, 

 in the near future, take the place of the 

 seed potatoes purchased from New Bruns- 

 wick and several states of the Union. A 

 large quantity of Early Ohio seed potatoes 

 have been distributed among the farmers in 

 the northern country. 



Seed peas have also been successfully 

 grown in northern Ontario. The price paid 

 by the vegetable growers is now sixteen dol- 

 lars a bushel. 'The Pea Weevil and Moth 

 are unknown in the northern country, and 

 peas grow very luxuriantly there. The 

 association has decided to purchase a quan- 

 tity of seed peas in Germany. These will be 

 forwarded to the farmers in northern On- 

 tario to be grown under contract for the 

 members of the as.sociation. Tlio price of 

 these seed peas in Germany is fourteen dol- 

 lars a bushel. The variet.y of these peas 

 will be the Gradus. 



Hon. Mr. Duff, Minister of Agriculture, 

 attended the meeting and spoke encourag- 

 ingly of the work that is being done by the 

 association. The question of increased 



greenhouses at Guelph for vegetable grow- 

 ing was urged upon the minister, and also 

 that fifty acres of the Monteith Demonstra- 

 tion Farm be plantefl with the different var- 

 ieties of potatoes and peas and other garden 

 crops. Hon. Mr. Duff agreed to give these 

 matters the fullest consideration. 



Tt pays to buy from firms who advertise 

 in The Canadian Horticulturist. We 

 vouch for their reliability. 



