February, 191 1 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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and thus the town has lost the opportunity 

 of having another play ground for the ben- 

 fit of its people. These are only a few sug- 

 gestions, the details of which can be worked 

 out to suit the local conditions of any town 

 or village. A number of societies have ac- 

 complished work of this character. More 

 might. 



THE NATIONAL APPLE SHOW 



The directors of the Ontario Fruit Grow- 

 ers Association have decided not to attempt 

 to hold a national apple show for the east 

 next fall. The intention is to hold the 

 show in the fall of 1912. In some ways it 

 is disappointing that the show will not be 

 held this year. British Columbia made a 

 success of its show with less than a year's 

 effort. On the other hand the people of 

 the east are not as familiar with the hold- 

 ing of these monster events as are the 

 people of the west, and therefore, may re- 

 quire more time to organize properly. 



The delay means that mere will be ex- 

 pected of the show when it does take 

 place. For this reason preliminary or- 

 ganization work should be started forth- 

 with . Otherwise, much of what it is hoped 

 to gain by the delay will not materialize. 

 If the event is to be made a credit and a 

 benefit to the east it must be conducted 

 on very broad lines. This means that time 

 for preparation must be used carefully and 

 wisely. 



From now on every fruit grower in On- 

 tario and Quebec should keep the holding 

 of this great show before him and plan 

 his work accordingly. He should study to 

 see what he can do to aid it and what bene- 

 fit can be made to him and to his section. 

 Our readers are invited to suggest through 

 The Can.adi.^n Hortictjlttjbist ways and 

 means of making this in every sense of the 

 term a National Apple Show. 



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RETURNS FROM ORCHARDS 



A recent bulletin issued by Cornell Uni- 

 versity shows that there are a million 

 apple trees in Niagara County, N.Y., 

 which produce a net income cf $100 per 

 acre. Though this is not a large yield, 

 still it is away ahead of any apple county 

 in Canada. But few Canadian apple grow- 

 ers clear $1,000 out of a ten acre apple 

 orchard every year. More could and 

 should. The average, including that of 

 the good, bad and indifferent fruit grow- 

 er, is much less. 



In Niagara county an average of forty 

 trees per acre would mean that there are 

 "■",000 acres which at $100 per acre would 



^an the tidy sum of $2,.500.000 revenue 



lat this county produces from its apple 

 orchards. The.se results are due to the 

 careful attention Niagara county fruit 

 -rowers give their orchards. Corrcsuond- 

 ing effots by our Canadian apple growers 

 "ould produce corresponding results in our 

 best apple districts. 



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At the last regular monthly meeting of 

 the Toronto branch of the Ontario Veget- 

 able Growers' A.ssnciation, the contract for 

 plant baskets and boxes for the sea.son was 

 .iwarded to Wm. Rennie & Sons; that for 

 Kundling twine and Paris green to Steele 

 liriggs and that for bushel boxes to Bar- 

 f liard & Co. It was decided to hold an At 

 Homo in the early )>art of February. The 

 .innual report of F. F. Reeves to J.' Lockio 

 Wil.TOn, showed a membership of 217 mem- 

 bor.i and a thriving condition of affairs. 



PUBLISHER'S DESK 



Our Cover Illustration 



Our frontispiece represents what will be 

 a novel scene to many of our readers, as 

 in most parts of Canada the lowly ox has 

 been released from the bondage of the yoke. 

 An up-to-date spraying outfit drawn by ox- 

 en will look to a western man like the 

 meeting of the old and the new. In Nova 

 Scotia, however, there is a constant de- 

 mand for well trained ox teams for use in 

 the lumber trade so that orchardists can 

 always dispose of matured oxen at high 

 prices. One advantage cf working oxen in 

 an orchard is that there are no whiffletrees 

 to injure the bark and tools can be used 

 much closer and with more safety than 

 with horses. It will be noted that the yolk 

 is so attached that the oxen pull by the 

 forehead and not by the shoulder as is 

 the practice with Ontario oxen. Experi- 

 ments have shown that by this method the 

 team can develop greater strength than 

 where the shoulder yolk or a collar is used. 

 The oxen and spray outfit belong to Mr. 

 S. C. Parker, Berwick, N.S., Secretary 



of the Nova Scotia Fruit Growers' As- 

 sociation . 



Special Issues 



As far as possible we aim to make the 

 contents of each issue of The Can.^dian 

 Hortict;ltitri8t timely and to the point. 

 In this issue special attention has been de- 

 voted to spraying. Next month the same 

 subject will be dealt with again and pro- 

 minence will be given to orchard planting 

 and kindred topics. The April issue will 

 be our "Garden Annual." In this number 

 interesting and instructive articles and il- 

 lustratons pertaining to the flower garden 

 will be emphasized. 



We feel that there are many hundreds 

 and possibly several thousand readers of 

 The Canadian HoRTicuLTtraisT who could 

 write entertaining and helpful articles for 

 the benefit of their brother and sister 

 growers if they but would. Why do you 

 not do it? What we desire are letters from 

 our readers and sharp, clear photographs 

 when possible, giving the results of their 

 personal experiences in their gardens and 

 orchards. Will you not send us yours? We 

 may not be able to use all the material 

 we receive but we will at least use the best 

 of it and thus aid many beginners and 

 even older hands as well, to do letter. 



Divergent Vievrs About the Tariff on Fruit 



The reciprocity or freer trade negotia- 

 tions that have been in progress between 

 Canada and the United States, led during 

 January to the subject being discussed by 

 various organizations representing the 

 fruit interests in different parts of Canada. 

 There is a wide diversity of opinion on 

 the subject. When the monster deputa- 



The Best Results 



"I have received a greater per- 

 centage of orders through requests 

 for catalogues, which have come di- 

 rectly through my advertisement in 

 The Canadian HoRTicTJLTtjRiST, than 

 I have my advertisement in any 

 other paper. I was obliged to re- 

 duce my advertising space durfng 

 October, as I was almost sold out of 

 my selected Hyacinths, as well as 

 many varieties of Tulips, although I 

 had a large stock of both. I attri- 

 bute this largely to my advertise- 

 ment in the The Canadian Horti- 

 culturist." — Robert T. Pinkerton, 

 Montreal. 



It pays to advertize. Try it. 



ton of farmers waited on the Dominion 

 Government in Ottawa in December, a re- 

 quest was made for freer trade with the 

 United States in fruit. This request was 

 presented by representatives of the Nova 

 Scotia and New Brunswick Fruit Growers 

 ."Association and by a leading officer of the 

 Ontario Cooperative Apple Growers As- 

 sociation. The request was made more 

 particularly as it applied to apples but cov- 

 ered all varieties of fruit and was pre- 

 sented in spite of a telegram of protest 

 received from growers in the Niagara Dis- 

 trict who fearefl that freer trade in fruit 

 might work injury to the Canadian growers 

 of tender fruit. 



BRITISH COI.TTMBIA VIEWS 



Early in .January the Central Farmers 

 Institute of British Columbia met in con- 

 vention in Victoria with forty delegates 

 i>rosont from all parts of British Columbia. 

 A resolution was passed stating that the 



convention viewed with alarm the move- 

 ment of the grain-growers of the prairies 

 for reciprocity in natural products with 

 the United States, and asking on the oon- 

 tary that the duties on fruit entering 

 Canada should be raised so as to make them 

 equal to the duties now levied on fruit 

 entering the United States. 



ONTARIO FRUIT GROWERS 



At a meeting of the directors of the On- 

 tario Fruit Growers Association held in 

 Toronto about the middle of January the 

 question was discussed for the better part 

 of two days. Opinions were much divided. 

 The apple men wanted a lower duty while 

 the small fruit and peach growers were 

 satisfied to let the tariff remain as it is, 

 the United States duty being only half 

 that of Canada. 



In the end the grape growers agreed to a 

 reduction of one cent of their two cent 

 a pound duty in order to aid the apple 

 men in obtaining a reduction in the United 

 States duty of seventy-five cents a barrel 

 to one more on an equality with the Can- 

 adian one of forty cents a barrel. 



RESOLUTIONS PASSED 



The following resolutions were adopted : 

 Moved b.v J. E. Johnston, Simcoe; se- 

 conded by W. H. Gibson, Newcastle, that 

 the existing tariff on apples between the 

 United States and Canada is unfair, and 

 we the Fruit Growers' Association of On- 

 tario respectfully ask that our Canadian 

 representatives will endeavor in reciprocal 

 trade negotiations to have the United 

 States tariff on apples lowered to forty 

 cents a barrel or less. 



Moved by W. H. Bunting. St. Cath- 

 arines ; seconded by Harold Jones, Mait- 

 land : That with regard to tender fruits we 

 would call the attention of the Government 

 to the fact that whereas, under present 

 tariff conditions the industry has prosper- 

 ed, population has greatly increased in 

 these districts, large areas of unproductive 

 land has been brought under a high state 

 of cultivation, many allied interests have 

 been established and placed on a firm basis; 

 an extensive transportation system has 



