EDITORIAL. 



We Want 



8000 Subscribers 



By December First Next 

 and 



We Need Your Help 



United States fruit and floral publications are 

 pushing their paper into Canada, and are constantly 

 asking their readers to help them get new subscri- 

 bers. Will not our readers help us in the 

 same way? 



Without saying anything against our United 

 States competitors (they are hard ones to fight) we 

 will state that The Canadian Horticulturist is 



the only paper jHiblislied, which \\ ill keep you fully 

 posted in regard to what Canadian Fruit, Flower 

 and Vegetable (Growers are doing. Our aim is to 

 give our readers in each issue the information they 

 are looking for, and therefore our articles are timely. 

 Tell these facts to your friends. 



Our Subscription Offers 



If you will induce one friend to take The Horticul- 

 turist for one j'ear, and send us a dollar for his 

 subscription, we will extend your subscription 

 for six months. 



If you send us two new subscriptions we will extend 

 your subscription one year. 



Trial subscriptions, from July until the first of next 

 year, will be accepted for 35c. For every trial 

 subscription you send us we will extend your 

 subscription one month. 



New subscriptions, from July until Janu' 

 ary, 1907, or a year and a half, will be ac= 

 cepted for $1.25, 



Those of our readers who are taking The Horti- 

 culturist through horticultural societies or fruit 

 growers associations will be allowed to retain a 

 liberal commission on all new subscriptions or we 

 will arrange with your secretary to extend your next 

 year's membership. 



Free sample papers will be sent to anj- person 

 who applies for them. 



Won't you help us reach the 8000 mark? 



do so through their common organ, The Horti- 

 culturist. The appointment of The Horticul- 

 turist as the official organ of the British Colum- 

 bia Fruit Growers' Association means that the 

 paper now practically represents the fruit in- 

 terests of the Dominion and that w'hen it speaks 

 for these interests it does so wath the voice of 

 one having authority. This union of forces on 

 the part of Canadian fruit growers will result to 

 their advantage. 



Why do some fruit growlers succeed in olbtain- 

 ing four and five times as much for their fruit 

 as others ? Thousands of Canadian apple 

 growers were unable to obtain over 60 cents a 

 barrel for their 1904 crop of apples. Recently 

 The Horticulturist received a letter from Mr. 

 Eben James reporting a sale of apples made in 

 April by his principals, Messrs. Woodall & Co.. 

 of Liverpool, Eng. This sale included 131 bar- 

 rels of apples sold for Mr. W. H. Dempsey, of 

 Trenton, Ont., which netted a gross average of 

 $5.94 a barrel, or a net value to Mr. Dempsey of 

 $4.50. The article by Mr. Dempsey on " Apple 

 Growing for Profit," which appears in this is- 

 sue, shows some of the methods Mr. Dempsey 

 has adopted and which have enabled him to 

 make such sales as the one here mentioned. 



While the resignations of Prof. Lochhead and 

 Prof. Harrison from the staff of the Guelph 

 Agricultural College will be a loss to that insti- 

 tution it is fortunate that instead of leaving 

 Canada, as so many of our best men have done, 

 they have accepted positions with the Mac- 

 donald Teachers' College and College of Agri- 

 culture at St. Annes, Que., where Canadians will 

 still reap the benefit of their services. Prof. 

 Lochhead will sever his connection wdth the 

 Guelph college on July 1 and will probably make 

 special studies, along, certain lines of plant 

 diseases and insect life, for three or four months 

 in the laboratories of the Department of Agri- 

 culture at Washington, and otherw'ise prepare 

 himself for his new duties before the new col- 

 lege opens in about a year and a half from now. 



The British Columbia Fruit Growers' Asso- 

 ciation is to be congratulated on the excellent 

 w'ork it is doing as shown by the article in this 

 issue by Mr. Brandrith, the secretary. The 

 holding of a number of meetings at different 

 points in the province each year is an excellent 

 one. The efforts being put forth to ensure for 

 fruit grow-ers the benefits of cooperative effort 

 are in the right direction and will result in bene- 

 fit to the industry. 



The Canadian Horticulturist 



Fruit growers join in expressing their sympa- 

 thy with Mr. Harold Jones, of Maitland, Ont., 

 the well known fruit experimenter and farmers' 

 institute speaker, who is also a director of the 

 Ontario Fruit Growers' Association, in the re- 

 cent death of his father, at the old homestead at 

 Maitland. Those who knew Mr. Jones, sen., 

 realize what a blow his death means to his son 

 and family. 



