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EDITORIAL. 



Tlje Gn^dian ^orticOltdrist 



Pnblished by The Horticultural Fublisliine 

 Company, Liimited. 



T\\& Only HorticMltural Magazine in 

 tKe Dominion. 



Official OrKan of British Columbia, Ontario, Que- 

 bec and Prince Kdward Island Fruit Growers' 

 Associations and of the Ontario Vege- 

 table Growers' Association. 



H. Bronson Cowan, Editor and Business Manager. 



J. A. Hand, Associate Editor. 



VV. G. Rook, Advertising Manager. 



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NOTICE TO ONTARIO SUBSCRIBERS. 



Owing to the transfer of The Canadian Horti- 

 culturist, formerly published by the Ontario 

 Fruit Growers' Association, to an independent 

 company known as The Horticultural Publish- 

 ing Company, Limited, the fee of one dollar if 

 sent to The Canadian Horticulturist or to Mr. 

 H. B. Cowan will not include membership in the 

 Fruit Growers' Association as in past years. As 

 many of those subscribing in this way consider 

 the membership in the association, together with 

 the annual report, as of considerable value, it 

 would be an injustice to cut them off summarily. 

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 Iber, 1904, those who desire the copy of the an- 

 nual report and other privileges of membership 

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P. W. HODGETTS, 

 Sec'y Ont. Fruit Growers' Ass'n. 



WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO MORGAN ? 



It would be difficult to determine which has 

 fallen the flattest, the seedless apple boom or 

 the horticultural reputation of Mr. Sampson 

 Morgan, of Broadstairs, England. Following 

 the publication of Prof. Craig's letter in The 

 Horticulturist for April, ridiculing the extrava- 

 gant claims made in the March issue by Mr. 

 Morgan for the seedless apple, Mr. Morgan was 

 written to and his attention drawn to Prof. 

 Craig's letter and he was invited to reply thereto. 



Since then The Horticulturist has waited 

 patiently for the reply which has not come. 

 Lately, something worse than the publication of 

 Prof. Craig's letter has happened. It has been 

 discovered that the two so-called coreless apples 

 which Mr. Morgan sent to Covent Garden Mar- 

 ket, and which created so much excitement 

 among the buyers who frequent that historic 

 spot, and which were finally auctioned off for 

 about seven dollars apiece, really possessed 

 healthy seeds and cores larger and harder than 

 those of most apples of their size. When, after 

 the excitement connected with the introduction 

 of these apples had subsided, and they were cut 

 open, the discovery of the cores and seeds 

 created an explosion of ridicule and fun in re- 

 gard to Mr. Morgan and seedless apples gen- 

 erally, the echoes of which are still to be heard 

 among the papers of Great Britain. The ques- 

 tion now Ibeing asked is, how many seeds did 

 the apple sent the King contain ? No person, 

 however, has been found who has dared to put 

 this question direct. 



When Mr. Morgan was beseiged by the British 

 press for an explanation he wired that the fruit 

 cut were not the Spencer seedless apples, to 

 which Mr. Shearn, their buyer, retorted that if 

 they were not the Si)encer seedless apples they 

 were apples he paid 30 shillings apiece for. The 

 Horticulturist has come to the conclusion that 

 the reason it has not heard from Mr. Morgan 

 must be that he has either innocently swallowed 

 the seeds of one of his famous apples or that he 

 is on the war path for the Spencer Coreless 

 Apple Company which led him from the paths 

 of veracity into troubles he had dreamed not of. 



BRITISH COLUMBIA FALLS IN LINE. 



The Canadian Horticulturist has recently been 

 appointed the official organ of the British Co- 

 lumbia Fruit Growers' Association. This means 

 that The Horticulturist is this year the official 

 organ of four provincial fruit-growers' associa- 

 tions extending from Prince Edward Island on 

 the east to British Columbia on the west. 



This is as it should be. There are many 

 questions connected with the fruit industry in 

 Canada which are of as great interest to the 

 fruit growers in one province as to those in an- 

 other. There is only one paper in the Dominion 

 which represents the fruit interests. That 

 paper is The Canadian Horticulturist. This 

 means that if the fruit growers in all the pro- 

 vinces desire to keep in touch with one another 

 and to discuss matters and to advocate reforms 

 which are to their mutual benefit they can best 



