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EDITORIAL. 



Tqe (anadian f4ortic6lt(irist 



Pablished by The Horticultural PnbliahinK 

 Company, Limited. 



TKe Only Horticviltural Magazine in 

 tKe Donvinion. 



Official Organ of Hritish Columbia, Ontario, Que> 



bee and Prince Kdward Island Fruit Growers' 



Associations and of the Ontario Vege> 



table Growers' Association. 



H. Bronson Cowan, Editor and Business Manager. 



J. Albert Hand, B.S.A., Associate Editor. 



W. G. Rook, Advertising Manager. 



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THE HAMILTON SHOW. 



The Hamilton Horticultural Exiiibition, for 

 a first effort, ^vas a success, but it can be great- 

 ly improved another year. In spite of the best 

 efforts of those in charge, the fact remains that 

 the bulk of the fruit and vegeta^ble growers of 

 the Niagara district did not realize that the 

 show was established for their benefit and that 

 they were expected to take a prominent part in 

 its management. Should the Ontario Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture decide to continue the show 

 another year a committee which will represent 

 all the horticultural interests of the Niagara 

 district ought to be selected to have charge of it. 



This committee should start work early in the 

 season and should be composed of one or more 

 representatives of each of the horticultural so- 

 cieties, of the Ontario. Niagara district and 

 Burlington fruit growers' associations, of each 

 of the several vegetable growers' associations, 

 and possibly one or two members of the Hamil- 

 ton City Council. Much of the success of the 

 Canadian National Exhibition has been due to 

 the work of the members of the Toronto City 

 Council. Sub-committees could be appointed 



for fruit, for flowers, and for vegetables, and to 

 these committees would have to be left largely 

 the making of all arrangements connected with 

 these departments of the exhibition. 



It would be well, for convenience of manage- 

 ment, to have the president and secretary lo- 

 cated in Hamilton. For these positions it would 

 be diflicult to secure two better men than Mr. 

 McCulloch and Mr. Dickson, the president and 

 secretary of this year's exhibition, as the suc- 

 cess of this year's show was due in a large 

 measure to their faithful, efficient work. Small 

 local committees could have charge of the de- 

 tails of management. If this exhibition is to 

 fulfil the objects for which it was started the 

 best men the Niagara district can produce 

 should be on the committee of management. 



THE DOMINION CONFERENCE. 



The conference of fruit growers from the dif- 

 ferent provinces of Canada, which the Dominion 

 Department of Agriculture is arranging to hold 

 next winter, will be the most important gather- 

 ing of fruit growers ever held in Canada. Such 

 a meeting has long been needed. Each pro- 

 vince has difficulties of its own which its gi'ow- 

 ers will have to gi'apple with by themselves, but 

 there are larger questions which affect all the 

 provinces, and their proper consideration can 

 only be secured through a conference of grow- 

 ers from each province. 



One of the most important subjects that can 

 be dealt with is the advisability of forming a 

 permanent body, representative of the fruit 

 growers in the different provinces, which could 

 meet annually or at least once every two years. 

 Such a body, owing to the expense of attending 

 its meetings, would have to be small. It might 

 be constituted of the presidents of each of the 

 provincial associations, and could meet in turn 

 in the different provinces at the time of the 

 holding of their provincial convention, but sepa- 

 rately. 



The associations could hardly use a portion 

 of their funds to better advantage than in send- 

 ing delegates to such meetings. In this way 

 it would be possible for fruit growers to have a 

 direct say in all matters of Dominion legisla- 

 tion relating to their interests. The honor of 

 representing a provincial association at one of 

 these conferences would be highly prized and 

 would add to the interest taken in the work of 

 the provincial organizations. A determined 

 effort on the part of fruit growers will easily re- 

 sult in the formation of such a body. 



The advance of the times is forcing vegetable 

 gi'owers, as well as growers in other lines of 

 work, to devote more attention to improving 

 their methods. Varieties of vegetables and 

 practices which proved profitable a few years 

 ago are no longer so, and the growers who real- 

 ize this first and are the quickest to grasp the 

 demands of the situation \\\\\ reap the largest 

 returns. The recently formed vegetable grow- 

 ers' association has already done much to 



