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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



January, 191 1 



The Canadian Horticulturist 



PublUiaJ by Til* Horticnltaral 

 Publbhinc Cempanr. Limited 



rKTKRBORO, ONTARIO 



The Only Horticultural Magazine 

 in the Dominion 



OmoTAij Oboan of thk Ontario, Quebec, New 



Brunswick and Prince Edward Island 



Fruit Growers' Associations 



H. Bbonson Cowan, Manaering Director 



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CIRCULATION STATEMENT. 

 The following is a sworn statement of the net 

 paid circulation of The Canadian Horticulturist 

 for the year ending with December. 1909. The fig- 

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 copies. Most months, including the sample copies, 

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PXTBBBOBO, OITTAJBIO 



EDITORIAL 



EASTERN NATIONAL APPLE SHOW 



If the proposal to hold a national apple 

 show in Ontario next fall is to be acted 

 imon, action should be taken immediately. 

 From this time on every week of delay 

 will militate against the success of the 

 show. 



To make this show the greatest that the 

 world has ever seen, the enthusiasm of the 

 citizens of Ontario and of the people of the 

 east must be aroused. From the first 

 stroke that is taken to the last this move- 

 ment must be handled with the boldness 

 that is inspired by the confidence of as- 

 sured success. 



The directors of the Ontario Fruit 

 Growers' Association, upon whom has been 

 imposed the responsibility of taking the 

 initiative, might well decide, as their first 

 .stpp, tc call a mass meeting in Toronto of 

 all who are likely to be interested. Re- 

 presentatives should be present from the 

 Dominion and Provincial governments, in- 

 cluding Quebec, the citv of Toronto, the 

 provincial and local fruit growers and co- 

 operative associations, the county councils 

 repre^'enting the fruit districts, the rail- 

 way and express companies, nursery firms, 

 commission dealers and other similar in- 

 terests. Reliable information snould be 

 laid bofore this gathering concerning tho 

 main features of the great national apple 

 shows that have been held at Spokane, as 

 well as of the recent show held in Van- 

 couver, what they cost to run, how the 

 money was raised and the effect they have 

 had in aronsine a grea;ter interest in the 

 growing of fruit and as an advertisement 

 of the fruit growing, resources and possi- 

 bilities of their sections of country. Ac- 

 companying this there should be a rough 

 estimate of the money that would be re- 

 quired to hold a distinctly greater show 

 next fall in Ontario. 



Such a gathering would attract the at- 

 tention of the press all over the country. 

 The fullest possible publicity should be 

 given to the information brought out at it 

 so that the public might realize the im- 

 portance and extent of the unaertaking 

 and its support thus be obtained. To this 

 gathering should be left the responsibility 

 of selecting and appointing the main com- 

 mittee that would have charge of the ar- 

 rangements for the show, the members of 

 which cculd in turn select the executive 

 committee from among themselves. The 

 general committee should include repre- 

 sentatives from every lending apple dis- 

 trict in Ontario and from Quebec as well. 



Should this gathering decide to proceed 

 with the arrangements, as we may pre- 

 sume that it would, the Lieutenant-Gov- 

 ernor of Ontario might then be requested 

 tc issue an official call for the holding of 

 the proposed show, as did Governor Sha- 

 froth, cf Colorado, for the Apple Congress 

 held recently in Denver, Colorado. This 

 call could be sent tc the mayors of cities 

 and towns, the wardens of counties and 

 to every organization likely to be inter- 

 e.sted in advertising the resources of tho 

 province and in attracting immigration. 



Following this local meetings should be 

 held in the centres mcst interested. Tor- 

 onto might well start off with the appoint- 

 ment of ;i committee from the city coun- 

 cil, board of Trade and horticultural so- 

 ciety with representatives from the fruit 



comii.ission firms and other eitnilar in- 

 terests. Upcn this committee should be 

 imposed tho responsibility of raising 

 $15,000 to $2.5,000, of which $10 000 to 

 $15,000 should be contributed by the citv 

 council and the balance by private coi. 

 tributions. Spokane has regularly con- 

 tributed $25,000 a year tc its show. 



A definite request for assistance should 

 then be made to the Dominion and pro- 

 vincial governments, after which the fruil 

 districts should be organized, the railway 

 and. express companies interviewed and 

 other similar arrangements made. Every 

 step of the movement should be freely ad- 

 vertised both at home and abrcad- 



These suggestions are made in the hope 

 that a few at least of thom may prove ac- 

 ceptable to the directors of the Fruit 

 Growers' A.ssociation, who we expect will 

 improve upon them in many ways. In the 

 meantime we must all recognize that the 

 UTidortaking is a great one, that it is en- 

 tirely feasible and that its succes.sful com- 

 pletion will enthuse the fruit growers of 

 Ontario and Quebec as nothing else could. 

 At the same time it would advertise our 

 resources to the world and thus should 

 attract hundreds of thousands of capital 

 and thousands of settlers to the fruit dis- 

 tricts of eastern Canada. 



INSULT TO INJURY 



Ontario fruit growers of late have begun 

 to wonder how it is that ninety cut of every 

 one hundred well-to-do British settlers who 

 enter Canada to take up fruit growing pass 

 by the great fruit districts of the east, as 

 though they had never heard of them, and 

 proceed direct to British Columbia. There 

 they buy land at considerably higher values 

 than land equally as good can be purchased 

 for in Ontario. Eastern growers have even 

 felt rather aggrieved over the situation. But 

 now a worse thing is happening. During 

 the past few months the Central Okanagan 

 Lands Limited of Kelowna, B.C.. has ac- 

 tually conducted agencies in Montreal and 

 Ottawa. They have displayed excellent 

 samples of their fruit and illustrations of 

 their orchard land and are creditably stated 

 tc have sold some three hundred thousand 

 dollars worth of fruit lands to Canadians 

 in the east. They even ran an excursion of 

 ea.stern investors to the Pacific coast pro- 

 vince. We presume that the next we will 

 hoar is that they have opened branches in 

 the Niagara District and that they have 

 induced our leading Niagara District grow- 

 ers to sacrifice their fruit lands in order 

 that they might make investments in the 

 west. 



The fact is that our eastern growers are 

 very, very much asleep. If they do not 

 awake soon they will have the boots stolen 

 off their feet. The Ontario government 

 also is dozing. The possibilities for a de- 

 velopment cf the fruit interests in Ontario 

 are enormous- And yet! practically noth- 

 ing is being done. Whv then should we 

 wonder over British investors passing us by ? 



One of our prominent and best informed 

 government officials, who is acquainted 

 with conditions both in the east and in the 

 west, informed us recently that there is no 

 reason why large areas of land in the Ni- 

 agara District could not be irrigated from 

 the Welland canal. The expense would be 

 trifling compared with similar undertakings 

 in the west- Such an opportunity in the 

 west would have been seized long ago. We 

 venture to say that were lands in the Ni- 

 agara District developed in this and other 

 similar ways whole colonies of British set- 

 tlers might be located on them as is being 

 done in British Columbia. What has been 



