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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



July, 1912 



The Canadian Horticulturist 1§3^^^^^^^^[1^^^^ 



Publiahed by Th« Horticultural 

 Pnbliahinv Companr, Limited 



PBrrSRBORO, ONTJLRIO 



The Only Horticultural Magazine 

 in the Dominion 



Official Oroan or the Ontario. Quebec, New 



Brunswick and Prince Edward Iu^nd 



Fruit Orowxrs' Abiociationb 



H. BnoNSON OowAN, Managing: Director 



1. The Oanadiaji HoTticnlturlet Is pabllshed on 

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1. Articlee and Illustrations for publication 

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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 9,469 



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 10,137 



Total 114,489 



Average each inue In 1907, 8,627 

 " " " " 1908, 8,69S 



" " " " 1909, 8,970 



" ' 1910, 9,067 



" " " " 1911, 9,541 



Juno, 1912 (2,112 



Sworn detailed statements will be mailed 

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OUR PROTECTIVE POLICY 

 We want the readers of The Canadian Horti- 

 cmlturiat to feel that they can deal with our 

 advertisers with our assurance of the advertle- 

 ers' reliability. We try to admit to our columns 

 only the moet reliable advertisers. Should any 

 auhscriber, 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- 

 oulturisit^ Should the circumstances warrant 

 we will expose them through the columns of 

 the paper. Thus we will not only protect our 

 readers, but our reputable advertisers as well. 

 All that is necessary to entitle you to the bene- 

 fit of this Protective Policy is that you include 

 in all your letters to advertisers the words, 

 "I Baw your ad. in The Canadian Horticulturist." 

 Complaints should be made to us as soon as 

 possible after reason for dissatisfaction has 

 been found. 



Oommnnications should be addreesed 



THE CANADIAN HOETIOULTUEIST, 



PBTEBBOEO, ONT. 



EDITORIAL 



MORE SWINDLERS 



Year after year The Canadian Horticui^ 

 TUBI8T has exposed swindle after swindle 

 that was being perpetrated by so-called 

 agents of nursery firms or other concerns 

 that professed to have some new and won- 

 derful discovery that was certain to enable 

 those fruit growers who would take advan- 

 tage to it, upon the agent's terms, to get 

 rich more quickly than ordinary and prov- 

 ed methods allow. We have had wonderful 

 varieties of potatoes and apples, com- 

 pounds that if injpcted into the sap of fruit 

 trees would prevent blights and other dis- 

 eases, as well as innumerable other schemes, 

 all of which have been fakes of the first 

 order. In one instance The Canadian 

 HoBTicm.TURiST placed the provincial go- 

 vernment on the track of a swindler, who 

 was arrested and imprisoned. 



Recently our attention has been called 

 to the operations of agents of United 

 States firms who are selling apples, cher- 

 ries and other nursery stock at prices that 

 such stock could not be grown for profit- 

 ably. To f.icilitate their operations these 

 agents are misleading the public by exhib- 

 iting specimen fruit in glass jars-^without 

 making allowance for the magnifying effect 

 thereof— and assuring possible customers 

 that under ordinary conditions the stock 

 they are offering for sale will produce simi- 

 lar fruit. Promises are made that dead 

 trees will be replaced for the next five 

 years, although no reputable firm we nave 

 yet heard of has been able to make such 

 an offer and continue in existence. 



Were it not for the fact that a tresn crop 

 of suckers seems to be always awaiting the 

 operations of such sharks, we would hardlv 

 think it worth while drawing attention to 

 this matter. As it is, we would advise our 

 readers to be on the watch for these 

 parties and to expose them should oppor- 

 tunity allow. 



TRANSFORMING WASTE PLACES 



Many towns and cities in Canada would 

 do well to imitate the policy adopted by 

 the city of Winnipeg this year in an at- 

 tempt to utilize waste places and vacant 

 building lots, and thereby beautify the city 

 and establish more gardens. There has 

 been established this year in Winnipeg an 

 organization known as "The Winnipeg 

 City Garden Club." Winnipeg, like all 

 other municipalities, has many vacant 

 building lots, a large number of which oc- 

 cupy most prominent corners. This is 

 largely due to speculation in real estate. 

 Immense bill-boards face these lois, or 

 large wood piles are located on these spaces. 

 To do away with this is the desire of tuis 

 new organization. 



For a fee of one dollar for membership the 

 Garden Club offers to supply a vacant lot 

 asked for by any applicant. They offer to 

 plow, harrow and prepare the lot for plant- 

 ing; to furnish fifty cents' worth of seed free 

 and to supply other seed at a cost less by 

 twenty-five per cent than its list price; to 

 give the member expert advice upon how 

 to plant the land, and to supply expert in- 

 spection throughout the season. They also 

 agree to furnish men to spade the home 

 garden at cost to the club, and to assist in 

 every possible way the planting of home 

 gardens and vacant lots. 



In Minneapolis and several other large 

 "ities in the United States the Girden C! b 

 has been in operation long enough to fully 

 demonstrate its fcasability and its success. 

 Results have been most gratifying. The 

 garden plan was accepted in Minneapolis 

 by some three hundred and sixty people the 

 first year, and twenty-two thousand five 

 hundred square feet of formerly waste 

 land was placed under cultivation. The 

 gardens were all marked with neat signs, 

 and were so well taken care 01 tnat only 

 two of the three hundred and sixtv to 

 whom vacant lots were .nssigned gave up 

 their gardens, and these because the lote 

 were sold. Forty thousand tomato plants 

 and eighty thousand cabbage plonts were 

 distributed among the vacant lot garden- 

 ers of Minneapolis last year, and it is es- 

 timated that these plants produced crops 

 to the value of seven thousand or eight 

 thousand dollars. 



The Garden Club of Winnipeg is affili- 

 ated with all the departments of civic auth- 

 ority, including the Trades and Labor Coun- 

 cil, Industrial Bureau, Rea' Estate Ex- 

 change, Horticultural Society, Canadian 

 Club, Winnipeg Advertising Club, and Cot- 

 tage Gardening .Society. 



THE DESERVING HONORED 



The celebration that took place at Dun- 

 dela during June, when a monument was 

 unveiled in honor of the original Mcintosh 

 Red apple tree, is worthy of more than 

 passing note. Hitherto it has been lae 

 custom to erect monuments mainly to great 

 warriors and statesmen. The world has 

 appeared to overlook the fact that reforms 

 and improvements fraught with groat im- 

 portance to the human race are sometimes 

 accomplished in the more humble walks of 

 life by men whose names do not receive the 

 recognition that their achievements de- 

 serve 



Of late years there has been a change 

 in this respect. At last the public is de- 

 veloping a more just sense of values. 

 Knightly honors and high degrees are being 

 conferred on men who have promoted such 

 humble callings as that of agriculture, as 

 for example Mr. C. C. James, until re- 

 cently Ontario's Deputy Minister nf Agri- 

 culture. Even yet, however, it may cause 

 a smile to some iu know that a monument 

 has been erected in Oxford County, Ont., in 

 honor of the great Holstein cow Calamity 

 Jane, an animal that did much by the" 

 great records she established to extend the 

 practice of conducting official tests of the 

 production of dairy cows. 



In time we will come to recognize that 

 men like the late Charles Arnold, of Paris, 

 Ont., who originated the Ontario apple, 

 and the late John Mcintosh, to whom we 

 are indebted for the Mcintosh Red Apple, 

 are deserving of the nation's thanks. It 

 is encouraging, therefore, to know tnat 

 this movement is progressing, as was shown 

 by the erection of the monument at Dun- 

 dela. 



The fruit growers of Nova Scotia, and 

 the local government of that province, de- 

 serve credit for the efforts they are put- 

 ting forth to prevent the San Jose scale 

 from becoming established in the east. Pro- 

 fiting by the experience of Ontario, which 

 passed an Act for the eradication of this 

 pest but made the mistake of leaving its 

 enforcement in the hands of local inspec- 

 tors, who in many cases were incompetent 

 as well as afra'd to antagonize their 



