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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



A Dominion Convention 



A deputation of fruit growers waited ..n th^ 

 Hon. Sydney Fisher to ask him to call a Do- 

 minion convention for the purpose of discuss- 

 ing various matters connected with the fruit 

 growing industry, also to urge him to take steps 

 to have express rates placed under the control 

 of the Railway Commission. The deputation 

 wau an inlluentiaJ one and placed its views be- 

 fore ..he mmister with much force. 



The following were mentioned as some of the 

 subjects which might be discussed at the con- 

 vention : 



Statistics and fruit crop reports. 



Transportation. 



Uniform packages. 



Markets and marketing, including the regula- 

 tion of the commission business, and all ques- 

 tions pertaining to interprovincial trade, also 

 the export trade. 



Adulteration of fruit products. 



Regulation of nurseries and tree agents. 



Amendments to the fruit marks act. 



Suggestions looking to the increasing useful- 

 ness of the Dominion experimental farms ana 

 provincial experiment stations and orchards. 



The deputation met with a sympathetic re- 

 ception and Mr. Fisher expressed himself 

 favoraible to holding the convention. It is ex- 

 pected that representative fruit growers, repre- 

 sentatives of the transportation companies, 

 local and foreign buyers, and others more or 

 less directly connected with the industry w'ill be 

 present, and that an exhibition of fruit, repre- 

 sentative of the provinces, will be held at the 

 same time. 



Items of Interest 



A very successful banquet was held by the 

 Market Gardeners' Protective Association at To- 

 ronto March 1. The principal speakers were 

 Hon. N. Monteith, Minister of Agriculture ; Mr. 

 J. "^^ St. John, M. P.P., and Messrs. R. C. Steele, 

 W. Rennie, J. A. Simmers and H. B. Cowan. 

 The 'affair passed off very pleasantly. 



A number of fruit growers' cooperative asso- 

 ciations have been formed in Ontario as the re- 



sult of a series of fruit institute meetings. 

 Among those associations are the Bruce Fruit 

 Growere' Association, Thedford Association, 

 Forest Fruit Growing and Forwarding Asso- 

 ciation, Georgian Bay Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tion, Lake Huron Fruit Growers Association, 

 and Allenford FVuit Growers Association. 



At a meeting of the British Columbia Central 

 Farmers' Institute, held at Victoria February 

 28 to March 2, a resolution was passed unani- 

 mously endorsing the action of the ProvInciaJ 

 Board of Horticulture in refusing admission to 

 the province of fruit and fruit trees infected 

 with fungus disease and infested with insect 

 pests. 



An influential deputation, introduced by Hon. 

 J. S. Hendrie, M. P. P., waited on Hon. Nelson 

 Monteith, Minister of Agriculture, recently, to 

 urge the holding of the annual Fruit, Flower 

 and Honey Show at Hamilton. A deputation is 

 being formed in Toronto to wait on the minis- 

 ter and ask that the show shall be continued in 

 Toronto. 



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