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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



June, 1913 



The Canadian Horticulturist ^n^siisis^^^iisgii^^gg 



Publuhsd br The Horticultural 

 Publithinff Company, Liwted 



PBTTBRBORO, ONTJLRIO 



The Only Horticultural Magazine 

 in the Dominion 



OwnctAL Oroan or the Ontario. Qukbbc, New 



Brunswick and Princk Edward Ibijlnd 



Fruit Growers' Associations 



R BnoNSOK Cowan, ManavinK Director 



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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, 1911. The 

 figures given are exclusive of samples and spoiled 

 copies. Most months, including the sample cop- 

 ies, from 11,000 to 12,000 copies of The Canadian 

 Horticulturist are mailed to people known to 

 be interested in the growing of frulta, flowers 

 or vegetables. 



January, 1911 8,082 



February, 1911 8,260 



March, 1911 8,523 



April, 1911 9,«9 



May, 1911 9,783 



June, 1911 10,178 



July, 1911 10,062 



August, 1911 10,043 



September. 1911 9,973 



October, 1911 9,991 



November, 1911 9,988 



December, 1911 10,1S7 



Total 1M.<89 



Average each issue in 1907, 6,627 

 " " " " 1908, 8,695 

 " " " " 1909, 8,970 

 « " " " 1910, 9,067 

 " " •' " 1911, 9,541 

 May, 1912 11,788 



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- 

 ers' reliability. We try to admit to our oolumns 

 only the most reliable advertisers. Should any 

 subscriber, therefore, have good cause to be 

 dissatisfied with the treatment he receives from 

 any of our advertisers, we will look into the 

 matter and investigate the circumstances fully. 

 Should we find reason, even in the slightest 

 degree, we will discontinue immediately the pub- 

 lication of their advertisements in The Horti- 

 oulturistt Should the circumetanoes warrant 

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THE CANADIAN HORTICUiyTUEIST, 



PBTERBORO, ONT. 



EDITORIAL 



COUNTY EXHIBITS 



For several years a number of the loading 

 fruit growing counties of Ontario, by means 

 of small grants given by their county coun- 

 cils, have made e;xhibits of apples each fall 

 nt the Ontario Horticultural Exhibition. 

 Several of these counties, particularly Nor- 

 folk. Ontario, Durham and Northumber- 

 land, are now reaping the benefits of their 

 enterprise. During the past couple of years 

 a considerable number of people from 

 abroad have commenced to purchase blocks 

 of land in these counties for fruit growing 

 purposes. Scores of thousands of dollars 

 are being invested by outside capitalists in 

 this way in some of these counties, and the 

 sections affected are reaping the benefit. 



At first it was diflScnlt to convince hard- 

 headed county councillors that their coun- 

 ties would derive benefit from anv money 

 they might expend to enable exhibits of 

 nnples being made hv their counties at the 

 Horticultural Exhibition. Even yet there 

 are some county councils that need educa- 

 tion on this point. Their doubts are soon 

 likely to vanish, as the results obtained 

 are now so apparent even the most obtuse 

 mav see. 



It is not so much the number of people 

 who attend the Ho'-ticultur.Tl Exhibition 

 and examine the exhibits that counts as it 

 is the chnracter of the people who do so. 

 These include not only lending fruit growers 

 but representa'tives of the agricultural and 

 daily press, government ofiScials and other 

 people occupying position"; which enable 

 them to mould public opinion. These peo- 

 ple, seeing certain counties well represented 

 bv fruit exhibits, become impressed with 

 the fruit possibilities of these districts and 

 henceforth advertise them directly and in- 

 directly in many valuable ways. Those 

 counties which neglect to mould public 

 opinion in this way miss great opportunities 

 for their own development. 



PARCELS POST 



The interests of the fruit and vegetable 

 growers of Canada are more directly con- 

 cerned with the agitation that has now 

 renchttd considerable proportions in the 

 Dominion House of Commons for the 

 establishment of a parcels post system 

 in Canada than their apathy regard- 

 ing this proposal would seem to indi- 

 cate. Two members of the House. 

 W. F. Maclean, MP., of York Countv, and 

 J. E. Armstrong, M.P.. of Lfmbton Countv. 

 are both urgir^g the introduction of this 

 system. Mr. Maclean advocates an unre- 

 .stricted service, while Mr. Armstrong is 

 contending for a service that will be limited 

 to rural mail routes and the towns and 

 cities with which they connect. For the 

 average fruit or vegetable grower this latter 

 .■ivstem would be of comparatively little 

 value. 



The postal regulations in Canada regard- 

 ing parcels are apparently designed to pre- 

 vent their carriage by post. The charge is 

 .sixteen cents a pound, and the limit of 

 •,5;^eight is five pounds. A five-pound pack- 

 age thus costs eighty cents. This charge is 

 .=0 excessive as to be practically prohibitive. 

 Tn England a similar package can be car- 

 ried for twelve cents. The contrast in cost 

 tells its own story. 



Practically all European countries have 



made a success of the parcels post system. 

 The limit of weight in Belgium is one hun- 

 dred and thirty-two pounds, in Austria. 

 Germany and Switzerland, one hundred and 

 ten pounds, France twenty-two pounds and 

 Australia, Cuba, Great Britain and Italy 

 eleven pounds. The charge for an eleven- 

 pound parcel, which at our rate in Canada 

 would be one dollar seventy-six cents, is in 

 Austria twelve cents, Belgium sixteen cents, 

 Germany thirteen cents, Great Britain 

 twenty-two cents, Italy twenty cents and 

 Switzerland eight cents. In each of these 

 countries a considerable trade has been 

 built up in the shipping of fruit and vege- 

 tables, done up in small packages, to cus- 

 tomers in the towns and cities. The intro- 

 duction of a reasonable parcels post system 

 in Canada would make possible the develop- 

 ment of a similar trade, and help to do 

 away with the middlemen. Our Fruit- 

 Growers' Associations should give more at- 

 tention to this matter than they have. 



NURSERY REGULATIONS 



In an interview with Mr. Thomas Cun- 

 ningham, Provincial Inspoctor of Fruit 

 Pests for British Columbia, published re- 

 cently in a Vancouver paper, Mr. Cunning- 

 ham is credited with the statement that al- 

 though importations of nursery stock into 

 British Columbia this year have been great- 

 er than ever before, none have been receiv- 

 ed from Ontario, the stock having all come 

 in from the western states. Mr. Cunning- 

 ham further stated that British Columbia 

 should grow all its own nursery stock. 



Had the fumigation regulations been de- 

 signed especially to keep out Ontario stock, 

 they could hardly be more effective than 

 they are. The fumigation station is locat- 

 ed in Vancouver. Ontario nursery stock 

 intended for western points in British Col- 

 umbia has to be shipped some hundreds 

 of miles across the province to Vancouver, 

 where it is fumigated and then be re- 

 shipped to the western portion of the pro- 

 vince. Delays frequently occur at the 

 fumigation station which, with the extra 

 shipping, have proved so disastrous, on 

 many occasions, to the stock, Ontario nur- 

 sery men have practically been driven out 

 of that province. The greatest loss is to the 

 British Columbia fruit growers, as much of 

 the stock grown in Ontario is better suit- 

 ed to certain districts in British Columbia 

 than is stock from the Pacific States. 



What is needed is that a fumigation sta- 

 tion should be established on the western 

 border of British Columbia. The establish- 

 ment of such a station has frequently been 

 urged in British Columbia by responsible 

 parties, but as yet no action has been taken. 

 It has seemed at times as if an effort was 

 being made by a few interested parties to 

 keep out the eastern stock, in spite of the 

 requirements of the local fruit growers, in 

 order that the establishment of nurseries 

 might be encouraged in the province as well 

 as to assist those now in business there. 



BOOKS ON HORTICULTURE 



In almost every city, town and village in 

 Ontario in which there is a horticultural 

 society there is also a public library. The 

 same condition exists to a considerable ex- 

 tent in most of the other provinces as well. 

 Very few of these public libraries contain 

 books relating to horticulture. Here is a 

 chance for our horticultural societies to do 

 some good work. Were they to appoint a 

 committee to wait on their library boards 

 and submit lists of horticultural books that 

 should be kept in the library for reference 



