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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



April, 191 1 



The Canadian Horticulturist 



Published by The Horticultural 

 Publiihins Company, Limited 



|I»H?rB:RBORO, ONTUI.RIO 



EDITORIAL 



The Only Horticultural Magazine 

 in the Dominion 



OrrtoiAL Oroan of the Ontario, Qubbbo, New 



Brunswick and Prince Edward Island 



Fruit Growers' Associations 



H. Bbonbon Cowan, HanaKlnK Director 



1. The Canadian HorticuIturiBt is published on 

 the Z5th day of the month preceding date of 

 issue. 



2. Subscription price in Canada and Great Bri- 

 tain, 60 cents a year; two years. $1.00. For United 

 States and local subscriptions in Peterboro, (not 

 called for at the Post Offlce) 25 cents extra a 

 year, including postage. 



3. Remittances should be made by Post Office 

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 Postage Stamps accepted for amounts less than 

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 are held responsible until all arrearages are 

 paid and their paper ordered to be discontinued. 



5. Change of Address — When a change of ad- 

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 dresses must be given. 



6. Advertising Rates quoted on application. 

 Copy received up to the 18th. Address all ad- 

 vertising correspondence and copy to our Ad- 

 vertising Manager, Peterboro, Ont. 



7. Articles and Illustrations for publication 

 will be thankfully received by the editor. 



CIRCULATION STATEMENT 



The following is a sworn statement of the net 

 paid circulation of The Canadian Horticulturist 

 for the year ending with December, 1910. The fig- 

 ures given are exclusive of samples and spoiled 

 copies. Most months, including the sample cop- 

 ies, from 11.000 to 12,000 copies of The Canadian 

 Horticulturist are mailed to people known . to 

 be interested in the growing of fruits, flowers 

 or vegetables. 



January, 1910 8,925 



February. 1910 8,967 



March. 1910 9.178 



April.1910 9,410 



May,1910 9,505 



June,1910 , 9,723 



July,1910 9,300 



August, 1910 8,832 



September, 1910 8,776 



October.1910 8,784 



November, 1910 8,747 



December, 1910 8,662 



108,809 



Average each Issue in 1947, 6,627 



" " " " 1908, 8,695 



" " " " 1909, 8.970 



" " " 1910. 9,067 



Sworn detailed statements will be mailed 

 upon application . 



OUR PROTECTIVE POLICY 



We want the readers of The Canadian Horti- 

 culturist to feel that they can deal with our 

 advertisers with our assurance of the advertis- 

 ers' reliability. We try to admit to our columns 

 only the most reliable advertisers. Should any 

 subscriber, therefore, have good cause to be 

 dissatisfied with the treatment he receives from 

 any of our advertisers, we will look into the 

 matter and investigate the circumstances fully. 

 Should we find reason, even In the slightest 

 degree, we will discontinue immediately the pub- 

 lication of their advertisements in "The Horti- 

 culturist. Should the circumstances warrant, 

 we will expose them through the columns of 

 the paper. Thus we will not only protect our 

 readers, but our reputable advertisers as well. 

 All that is necessary to entitle you to the bene- 

 fit of this Protective Policy is that you include 

 in all your letters to advertisers the words. 

 "I saw your ad. in The Canadian Horticultur- 

 ist." Complaints should be made to us as soon 

 as possible after reason for dissatisfaction has 

 been found. 



Communications should be addressed. 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



PETERBORO, ONTARIO. 



A TAX ON CANADIAN FRUIT 



GROWERS 



The offer of the National Council of Agri- 

 culture through Mr. E. C. Drury, its sec- 

 retary, to do all in its power to help fruit 

 and vegetable growers to obtain fertilis'/ors, 

 imploments, spray materials, etc., duty free, 

 should bo taken advantage of by the grow- 

 ers. In the matter of fertilizers the fruit 

 growers have been most unjustly dealt with 

 for while the protection has been removed 

 on their fruit and vegetables it has been 

 left on their mixed fertilizers and other ne- 

 cessities. 



Canada is said to be the only country in 

 the world that taxes plant food in any form. 

 This country imnorted last year from the 

 United Stat&s fertilizer valued at $339,436 

 on which a duty tax of $33,944 was col- 

 lected. This is not the whole story for this 

 duty allowed the Canadian manufacturers 

 to charge approximately the amount of the 

 duty more on every ton of mixed fertilizer 

 that they manufactured. This fertilizer tax 

 alone is a considerable handicap in the 

 growing of fruit and vegetables in competi- 

 tion with the United States producer and 

 one that should be removed at once. 



THE NECESSITY OF PACKING 

 SCHOOLS 



Packing schools are the order of the day 

 all through British Columbia. Ontario and 

 Nova Scotia are waking up. Briti.sh Col- 

 umbia fruit growers evidently believe in the 

 old adage, that "what we have we will 

 hold." They hold the premier position in 

 apple packing and they do not intend to 

 let any other province take this honor away 

 from them. 



A recent conversation with an apple deal- 

 er who spends part of each summer selling 

 apples in the prairie provinces shows how 

 far behind Ontario is in the race. As this 

 man expressed it : "You can gamble on Brii^ 

 ish Columbia apples, you know that each box 

 in a car will be just like the first one. "With 

 Ontario apples you never know what you 

 will get. Not only are the majority of the 

 Ontario apples sent west poor in quality but 

 the packing is worse. Each barrel is diff- 

 erent from the one next to it and even the 

 barrel itself does not run uniform in qual- 

 ity. Is it any wonder that it is harder to sell 

 Ontario apples than British Columbia under 

 these circumstances? The West has the 

 money and will pay for good fruit and the 

 Ontario fruit grower s making a great mis- 

 take in sending his lower grade apples 

 west." 



This is the manner in which a man on 

 the ground views the matter. His is good 

 advice. The day has gone by when dealers 

 could say that anything was good enough 

 for the Western farmers. If the Ontario 

 fruit grower is going to hold the Western 

 market he must learn to pack his fruit as 

 well as the fruit growers of British Col- 

 umbia and the Western States. 



The high place given to British Columbia 

 fruit in the prairie market is due in a large 

 measure to the care taken b.v the govern- 

 ment in looking after the market end of the 

 business. Mr. Metcalfe, one of their inspec- 

 tors has been kept travelling through the 

 country visiting the markets of the central 

 West examining the conditions in which the 

 fruit arrived, the honesty of the packing and 



rcixirting back to the government and the 

 fruit-growers in British Columbia both by 

 official reports and articles in the papers. 

 In this way the growers have been informed 

 just what changes should be made in packing 

 or what varieties of fruit the different mar- 

 kets required. 



THE NATIONAL APPLE SHOW 



We would like to know what preparations 

 have been made for the National Apple 

 Show? If those who were depended upon to 

 keep this matter before the public are not 

 doing their duty they will have only them- 

 selves to answer for if they are severely cen- 

 8ure<l for lack of attention to duty if when 

 the time comes we are not ready. 



If Ontario is to have an apple show that 

 will be a credit to the east there is no time 

 to be \rst. Preliminary organization should 

 be started at once. Every fruit grower in 

 the east .should keep the holding of this great 

 show before him and think out ways in 

 which he can aid it. 



WORK FOR THE HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETIES 



This is the time when those members of 

 the horticultural societies, who have not al- 

 ready done so, should get together and 

 plan out their work for the coming sum- 

 mer. 



Arrange your lawn competitions in good 

 time so that the competitors will have 

 plenty of time to obtain earth for levelling 

 up the lawns, the cutting out of unsightly 

 trees or the removal of brush and rubbish, 

 also the reseeding of the lawn where neces- 

 sary, and the digging up of dandelions and 

 weeds before the rush of spring work be- 

 gins. Agitate against the unsightly bill 

 boards. The creating of a strong, healthy 

 sentiment is a great help in a campaign 

 of any kind. 



Bring pressure to bear on the town 

 councils to give more care to the planting 

 and care of shade trees, the laying out of 

 flower beds, the care of parks and ceme- 

 teries, the levelling of unsightly dump 

 piles, and the burning of rubbish that usu- 

 ally collects in such places. 



in many towns. and especially the 

 smaller places that do not employ a super- 

 intendent of parks and public ground.s, 

 much good work is done by obtaining the 

 consent of the council to a propo.sition giv- 

 ing the full control of the public grounds 

 into the hands of the local horticultural 

 society. AVhere this practice has been fol- 

 lowed good results and a greater interest 

 in horticultural questions have been ob- 

 tained. Appoint a committee to see what 

 terms can be made, and then if successful 

 lay your plans to make your home town the 

 most beautiful town in Canada. 



THE BROWN TAIL MOTH 



Fruit growers all over Canada and es- 

 pecially in Neva Sootia should be on the 

 watch for any evidences of the Gipsy or 

 Brown Tail moth which have done so much 

 damage in the New England States and 

 upon which hundreds of thousands of dol- 

 lars have been spent in an effort to keep 

 them under control. Two parties of inspect^ 

 ors are working in Nova Scotia. The one in 

 the West have not found any nests as yet. 

 The other party, working in Yarmouth and 

 Digby counties, have found a large number. 



In one week one of the parties in the East 

 discovered more nests than were found by all 

 the inspectors in the season of 1910. Fruit 

 growers and especially these in the infested 

 areas should make a careful search of their 

 own properties as well as of the trees along 



