February, 191 1 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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ment upon the new schedule before sub- 

 mitting it to the Conimission. Both had 

 agreed . Later it was reported at the St. 

 Catharines meeting that Mr. Bryce had 

 refused to meet the growers. In a letter 

 to Mr. E. D. Smith he claimed that the 

 Railway Commission's ruling that a new 

 tariff mu.st be prepared applied merely to 

 business going to the Northwest. 



The directors unanimously empowered 

 the committee on freight rates to expend 

 any necessary sum of money in its fight 

 for better rates from the Canadian and 

 Dominion Express Companies. 



OFFICERS ELECTED 



The following oflScers were elected : Pre- 

 sident, J. W. Smith. Winona; first vice- 

 president, Robert Thompson, St. Catha- 

 rines; second vice-president, W. B. Bridge- 

 man, Winona; third vice-president, G. 

 Brown, Fonthill ; fourth vice-president, 

 Frederick Hamilton, Louth; secretary- 

 treasurer, Carl E. Fisher. 



Mr. Robert Thompson referred to the 

 recent frut growers' meeting in Rochester, 

 where it was freely admitted that Canada 

 and Ontario have the only desirable mode 

 of packing. This was different to state 

 ments made at Rochester some years ago, 

 when the Rochester men had found such 

 fault that the Ontario growers had to do 

 fend the Fruit !Marks Act, which was 

 then in its infancy. 



Mr. Thompson stated that at the con- 

 vention it had been demonstrated that a 

 mixture of arsenate and lead with lime 

 and sulphur would render the spray con- 

 siderably more effective. Hydrometers 

 are being manufactured so that the pro- 

 per strength of the spray can be gauged. 



The financial statement showed receipts 

 for the year of $580.14, and a balance of 

 ?273.59. 



Standard Fruit Boxes 



The British Columbia Fruit Growers at 

 their meeting, held recently in Victoria, 

 approved the following sizes for fruit 

 boxes : Apple boxes, 20x11x10 inches ; pear 

 boxes, 18/^x11x8/^ inches ; plum boxes, 

 four basket crate, 15%xl5%x43^ inches ; 

 peach boxes, 18)i'xll%x4% inches; crab 

 apple boxes same as pear boxes. 



These recommendations will be forward- 

 ed to the Dominion Fruit Growers' Asso- 

 ciation which meets at Ottawa next De- 

 cember, with a request that they be ap- 

 proved and sent to the Dominion minister 

 of agriculture with a suggestion that they 

 be legalized. There is now no legalized 

 standard size for fruit boxes in Canada 

 except apple boxes for export. 



The apple box endorsed is the same as 

 that set forth in the Fruit Marks Act as 

 required to be used when apples are pack- 

 ed "for export only." 



of the Society for judicial settlement of 

 International disputes for an evening ses- 

 sion was a feature of the Convention. An- 

 drew Carnegie was particularly kind to 

 the Canadian delegates. 



The headquarters of the Civic Association 

 and the International Arbitral delegates 

 was the New Willard Hotel where the 

 Canadian delegation had their home. The 

 Canadians bore home with them a vice- 

 presidency as a token of esteem from their 

 United States cousins. 



Ontario Delegates to Wash- 

 ington 



Rev. A. H. Scott, of Perth, writes The 

 Canadian Hortictjltttrist that he and se- 

 cretary J. Lockie Wilson, of Toronto, who 

 composed the delegation to the American 

 Civic Association from the Ontario Horti- 

 cultural Association together with Mr. Jas. 

 Wilson. Park Commissioner cf Toronto, 

 were given a fine reception in Washington 

 and held up the Canadian end of Civic 

 improvements. Mr. Lockie Wilson gave an 

 address on Ontario Horticultural Societies 

 and met the requirements of the occasion 

 well. 



The convention lasted three days and 

 passed in review some forty subjects. An 

 amalgamation of the American Civic As- 

 sociation and the International Conference 



Weights of Vegetables 



Deputations from tlie Ontario and Que- 

 bec Vegetable Growers Associations waited 

 on Sir Richard Cartwright, Minister of 

 Trade and Commerce, in Ottawa recently 

 and asked that standard weights per bag 

 for vegetables should be established as fol- 

 lows, thus doing away with the lack of uni- 

 formity now prevalent : Potatoes, 80 pounds^ 

 onions, 75; turnips. 70; artichokes, 75; 

 beets, 70 ; carrots, 70 ; parsnips, 60. 



Sir Richard replied that he was in sym- 

 pathy with the changes asked and gave the 

 delegaton to understand that at the next 

 session of Parliament the requests they 

 made would be adjusted as far as possible. 



Ontario Boxed Apples 



An evidence of the success that is at- 

 tending the efforts of Ontario Fruit Grow- 

 ers to ship apples in boxes to Great Brit- 

 ain is furnished by a report received by 

 Mr. W. W. Moore, Chief of the Market 

 Division of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, Ottawa, on a shipment sent to Glas- 

 gow by Mr. R. C. Fowler, of Burlington, 

 Ont. This report reads as follows : 



"The box shipment by R. C. Fowler con- 

 tained some very choice fruit, and ship- 



PEDIGREED TREES 



=== PRODUCE 



"QUALITY FRUITS" 



We still have a nice stock of SPY and 

 WEALTHY APPLES, also Hyslop Crabs— the 

 sorts demanded. 



Our Line of CHERRIES is particularly fine 

 this season. The trees are large, smooth and 

 .straight, well supplied with fibrous roots. They 

 are all PEDIGREED. 



In PLUMS we have a splendid lot of year- 

 lings as well as two year olds. The yearlings 

 are large enough for the most critical buyer 

 and heavily rooted. 



Our ROSES and EVERGREENS contain the 

 best varieties. We have a thrifty lot of eighteen 

 inch NORW.'W SPRUCE at $io.oo per loo. 



WRITE FOR OUR CATALOGUE. 



AUBURN NURSERIES 



QUEENSTON, ONT. 



SMALL FRUITS 



STRAWBERRIES.^I have the following new varie- 

 ties, which are very promising: Gill, Goree, Golden 

 Gate, Fendall, F.vening Star, and Battenburg. $1.00 

 per hundred, $1.25 by mail. And also the following re- 

 cent introductions, which are coming to the front as 

 standards : 



3 W'S. — A variety of the same season as Senator 

 Dunlap, fully as large a berry, and a much larger 

 plant : will probably excel it in many soils. 



CHIPMAN. — Of the same season, or a little earlier, 

 very large berry, healthy foliage, strong runner maker; 

 will run the other two very close. 



MEADE. — A reliable mid-season variety, very 

 healthy foliage, large, round, firm berry, with a very 

 fine full flavor. 



NETTIE.— An old variety, but still the latest; 

 should be grown with a late staminate. In soils and 

 locations suitable to late berries, this variety should be 

 profitable. 



Also the old reliables— Senator Dunlap, William 

 Belt, Parson's Beauty, Sample, ITncle Jim, Steven's 

 Champion, and many others. 60 cents per hundred, 

 $4.00 per thousand. $1.00 per hundred by mail. 



RASPBERRIES. — Eaton and Herbert, new varfe-' 

 ties. 60 cents dozen, $3.00 per hundred express. King, 

 Marlboro', Loudon, Baumfortb Seedlings, and Cumber- 

 land Blackcap. 50 cents a dozen, $2.00 per hundred. 



SEND FOR CATALOGUE 



C. p. NEWMAN 



Box 51 - LACHINE LOCKS, QUE. 



