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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



May, 191 1 



The Canadian Horticulturist 



Published hj The Horticultural 

 Publishins Company, Limited 



PBrrERBORO, ONTARIO 



The Only Horticultural Magazine 

 in the Dominion 



OrrioiAL Oroan op the Ontario, Qukbeo, New 



Bkunswiok and Prince Edward IsiaND 



Fruit Orowers' Associations 



H. Bronson Cowan, Managing Director 



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EDITORIAL 



MOTHERS' DAY 



Three .veais ago a movement was s1>arted 

 in Philadelphia to observe the second Sun- 

 day in May oach year as Mothers' Day. 

 The movement was taken up with much en- 

 thusiam through the United States and 

 rapidly spread all over the country, but 

 as yet it has received but little support in 

 Canada. The object is to set apart one day 

 in each year for the special honoring of 

 your Mother. To show such honor and 

 sentiment in a material way the plan is to 

 induce all persons to send boxes of flowers 

 to their mothers as pref^^nts and to wear 

 flowers as a token of respect. Nc special 

 flower is needed although the white carna- 

 tion has probably been the most popular 

 one. 



The Horticultural Societies can aid this 

 work by inducing the Mayors of their town 

 to issue proclamations that the second Sun- 

 day in May will be kept as Mother's day. 

 The clergymen of all denominations should 

 be interviewed and asked to preach sermons 

 on this subject on that day. The Women's 

 clubs and fraternal societies should also be 

 appealed to for aid in this work. 



IMPROVE THE COUNTRY HOME 



In our last issue Mr. W. T. Macoun. 

 Dominion Horticuturist, made an eloquent 

 plea for the better observance c,f Arbour 

 Day and compares the appearances of the 

 town and city home with the country home 

 much to the disadvantage of the country- 

 He gives the chief credit for the improved 

 appearance of the town homes to the horti- 

 cultural societies- 



To u-5 the remedy for this st?te of affairs 

 is very simple, just extend the horticultural 

 societies out through the country when the 

 same agents that have workel improvements 

 in the town horres will do the same for the 

 country home. Through the liberal premiums 

 offered one year a vine is planted, another, 

 an ornamental shrub. The next year flower 

 seed, bulbs and rose bushes are obtained. 

 These plants together with the plain and 

 simple instructions given in The Canadian 

 Horticulturist which is furnished free to 

 members by the majority of the Horticultur- 

 al Societies have worked wonders in the 

 changed appearance of the town home and 

 will do the same in the country if the mem- 

 bership is extended to include all country 

 districts. 



RENTING ONTARIO ORCHARDS 



Several companies composed of English 

 capitalists have rented a large number of 

 orchards in Ontario for terms varying from 

 seven to ten years. On the whole this 

 new departure will probably be a benefit to 

 the fruit industry as the education which 

 will be given by having a number of or- 

 chards properlv pruned, spra.ved and cul- 

 tivated in a district will be of great value 

 to the community. 



Orcharding, owing to the great increase 

 of insect pests and fungous diseases has of 

 late years become a business by itself. 

 Where a farmer has not sufiicent executive 

 abilit.v to manage two businesses he had 

 better let one go. In many cases he would 

 be better off to rent the farm and attend 

 to his orchard himself but if he wishes 

 to keep the farm in his own hands it is 

 certainly a wise move for him to rent his 

 orchard, for a neglected orchard will not 



produce as largo a reveinue per acre as a 

 well worked farm. 



But it seems a i>eiuiy wise and pound 

 foolish policy for men to rent out good or- 

 chards of from six to ten aeree becaus< 

 as they say they would have to buy »prav- 

 ing outfits and hire another man to do tin 

 work. Counting time lost by going to and 

 from work and from unfavorable weather 

 it is a safe stat<;jiH'nt that the farmer could 

 care for his orchard for one half the money 

 it will cost the apple companies. If th<- 

 companies can pay two and three dollars a 

 day for men to ijrune the trees and give i 

 the owner from thrt-e and a half to four 

 and a half dollars per day for cultivating 

 surely it would pay the farmer to keep the 

 orchard in his own oontrol and hire the j 

 men himself when he would have them on 

 the farm ready to take hold of farm work 

 when needed. 



If the farmer will not care for his or- 

 chard properly he had better take the first 

 chance that he can to rent as in this case 

 he will receive a revenue each year and 

 have the orchard given back to him at ; 

 the end of seven to ten years in a much 

 better producing state then when be rented 

 it. 



PROTECT THE BIRDS 



Birds are of groat value to the fruit 

 grower, as they live almost entirely on in- 

 sects, and thus keep them in check and 

 prevent great loss. A few birds cau.se some 

 damage to fruit and other crops, but the 

 injury is trifling when compared with the 

 good that is done. 



It is a great mistake to sacrifice a hun- 

 dred birds for the damage that one may 

 do. Any man who grows fruit or vege- 

 tables, or even has a kitchen garden, 

 should have a common knowledge of the 

 habits of birds. If a blackbird is seen in 

 a grain field it does not neces-sarily follow 

 that he is doing harm. Woodpeckers are 

 often shot in orchards when a careful in- 

 veetigation would show that they are de- 

 stroying injurious insects. 



There are many iiiitanoes where birds 

 have been killed for destroying fruit when 

 an examination of their eitomaohs has 

 shown that they were eating more injur- 

 ious insects than fruit. Even though some 

 birds may eat a little fruit it is a small 

 part of their diet. During the breeding 

 season they live and rear their young al- 

 most exclusively on insect food. 



Birds are the most \aluaUe asset of the 

 orchard or the farm. Protect them. 



THE VALUE OF SPRAYING 



The demonstration orchards conducted 

 by the Department of Agriculture last year 

 proved beyond the shadow of a doubt the 

 value of pruning and spraying of orchards. 

 One of the most striking illustrations of 

 the gain produced by spraying was in the 

 orchard of Mr. John Osborne, Dunedin. 



This orchard had never produced over 

 fifty dollars worth of apples but by the ex- 

 penditure of forty-eight doUaxs and thirty 

 cents in pruning, spraying and cultivat- 

 ing the orchard, and paying seventy-five 

 cents a barrel for picking and packing, the 

 apples sold for two hundred and thirty-two 

 dollars and ninety-seven cents, nearly five 

 times the highest amount that was ever 

 received for the orchard in previous years. 



Surely after evidence such as this every 

 fruitgrower and farmer will invest in a 

 spray pump and see that his orchard has 

 proper attention. Not only is spraying 

 necessary for the best results, but it must A 

 be reinforced by proper pruning, thorough ^] 

 cultivation and .some system of oo-opera- 

 tive disposal of the fruit. 



