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from the possibilities of work open to the other. 

 General aissatisfaction is being expressed with 

 the work of many of our agricultural societies, 

 and a change in the act granting them aid 

 seems probable in the not very distant future. 

 Now is a good time for the officers of the horti- 

 cultural societies to consider this whole sub- 

 ject. The convention proposed for next No- 

 vember will afford their representatives an 

 opportunity to consider the matter fully. 



HOW OUR READERS CAN HELP. 



The management of The Canadian Horticul- 

 turist is endeavoring to pu'blisii a magazine that 

 will be of direct value to fruit growers' and all 

 interested in horticultural subjects. As our 

 readers must have observed, the amount of set- 

 ting in each issue has lately been increased, 

 and more attention is being given to all sides 

 of the fruit and general horticultural interests, 

 while every item each month is fresh, there be- 

 ing no clippings from other magazines or 

 papers. If our readers and that section of the 

 public which is interested in horticulture will 

 show their appreciation by rallying to the sup- 

 port of The Horticulturist, the only magazine 

 of the kind published in Canada, it will soon be 

 possible to considerably increase the number of 

 pages, add other departments, and make a num- 

 ber of further improvements. 



There is one way in which readers can ma- 

 terially assist the management, viz., by buying 

 from our advertisers and telling them that they 

 saw their advertisement in The Horticulturist. 

 This will encourage advertisers to continue and 

 even enlarge their advertisements, which will 

 mean more money for the management and the 

 desired improvements in the magazine. Only 

 high class advertisements from reliable firms 

 are accepted. During the past two months 

 several advertisements which savored of the 

 fake nature, which had crept into The Horticul- 

 turist, have been rejected and will not appear 

 again, although the money offered for their pub- 

 lication has been needed. Help us to publish a 

 horticultural paper that will be a credit to 

 Canada by telling your friends about the maga- 

 zine and patronizing our advertisers. 



Marketing Small Fruits. — Currants are han- 

 dled in baskets and in quart boxes put up in 

 crates. I have tried both ways, and find a bet- 

 ter margin of profit from using the quart box 

 in the 24-quart crate. In fact, all currants and 

 berries pay best when put up in quart boxes and 

 crates. In selling grapes I use a basket which 

 holds two and three quarter quarts, and find 

 that size of package pays the best. — (A. "W. 

 Peart, Burlington, Ont. 



We advertise in a large number of news- 

 papers in Canada and can truthfully say that 

 we obtain better results from our advertisement 

 in The Canadian Horticulturist than from any 

 other. — (The Smith & Reed Co., Dominion Nur- 

 series, St. Catharines, Ont. 



A WELL PRESENTED CASE. 



The fruit growers are to be congratulated on 

 the excellent case they presented to the railway 

 way commission. The trans-portation difficul- 

 ties which have, to use the words of President 

 Bunting, " harassed the fruit growers of the 

 province for a number of years," were set forth 

 so clearly, the proofs offered were so positive, 

 and the spirit in which the evidence was given 

 was so free from petty spite of any kina it was 

 apparent, almost from the very start, that the 

 commissioners were considerably impressed by 

 the facts presented. 



The praise given Mr. Bunting by Hon. Mr. 

 Blair and Hon. Mr. Bernier for the clear and 

 moderate manner in which he set forth the case 

 of the fruit growers was well deserved. The 

 evidence of Messrs. E. D. Smith, M. P., H. W. 

 Dawson and Ex-Mayor Graham was also given 

 in a manner deserving of every commendation. 

 The whole case was handled so ably as to show 

 plainly the care with which it had been pre- 

 pared and the great amount of time those in- 

 terested in it must have given the matter. 

 Even if the fruit growers do not succeed in se- 

 curing all the redresses asked for, an excellent 

 start towards an improvement in existing con- 

 ditions has been made. 



Fruit growers owe considerable to the maga- 

 zine. Physical Culture. This monthly, which is 

 the foremost of the kind published, is constant- 

 ly drawing attention to the value of fruit and 

 vegetables as a food. The average person, ac- 

 cording to Physical Culture, eats too much. If 

 instead of eating hearty meals three and, as 

 some people do, four times a day, more would 

 satisfy their hunger by eating a little fruit they 

 would both feel and be ,the better for it. Eat 

 more fruit and vegetables and less meat is its 

 constant advice. There is a great deal of com- 

 mon sense in what Physical Culture says. If 

 the general public would only follow this advice 

 it would be a splendid thing for the fruit in- 

 dustry. 



Quite a little is being said by fruit growers 

 in regard to which are the best sizes of boxes 

 and Tjarrels for the shipment of fruit. In this 

 connection one point deserves attention. The 

 two baskets most commonly used for the ship- 

 ment of plums, cherries, etc., are the 11-quart 

 and the 6 2-3 quart. The general public is in- 

 clined to consider the smaller package a half 

 size of the larger and to refuse to pay more 

 than half the price of the larger basket for it. 

 This, of course, spells loss for growers who use 

 the smaller basket. An effort should be made 

 to secure the adoption of a straight 5% or 6- 

 quart basket. 



There are a large number of horticultural 

 papers puiblished in the United States, but only 

 one in Canada, and that is The Canadian Horti- 

 culturist. Help us make it a credit to Canada 

 by recommending it to your friends and patron- 

 izing our advertisers. 



