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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



June, 191 1 



The Canadian Horticulturist 



Published by The Horticultural 

 Publiahinr Company, Limited 



PXrrKRBORO, ONXj^RIO 



EDITORIAL 



The Only Horticultural Magazine 



in the Dominion 



OrrioiAL Okoan or the Ontario, Quebec, New 



Brukswick akd Prince Edward Island 



Fruit Growers' Associations 



H. Bronson Cowan, Managingr Director 



1. The Canadian Horticulturist is published on 

 the 25th day of the month preceding date of 

 issue. 



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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. 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 



10S.809 



Average each Issue in I9C7, 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, 

 "1 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 HORTIOULTUEIST, 



PETBEBOEO, ONTARIO. 



A SIGN OF THE TIMES 



The aiinoiinooment that the fruit growers 

 in Durham County, Ont., as well as in 

 several other tli-itricts, have formed a co- 

 operative fruit growers' as.sociation, and 

 will give careful attention to their orchards 

 and apple pack i.s a sign of the times. Co- 

 operation is extending in Ontario and 

 throughout Canada. We venture the pre- 

 diction that more 00-operative a.s.sociations 

 will be launched among our fruit growers 

 during the next three years than have been 

 during the la-st fifteen, and that a larger 

 proportion of them will prove a success. 



The statement has been made frequently 

 that the farmers and fruit growers of 

 Canada are too independent to work to- 

 gether. This has never been true. Were 

 it true it would mean that we are not in- 

 telligent enough to see that we can ad- 

 vance our interests best by working united- 

 ly rather than as individuals. The fact 

 is we possess as large a degree of intelli- 

 gence in these matters as the fruit growers 

 of any other nation. The trouble hitherto 

 has been that conditions in Canada have 

 not been ripe for the launching of co- 

 operative enterprises. Now that railways 

 are opening new stretches of country, pop- 

 ulation increasing, telephones becoming 

 general in their use, i-oads being im- 

 proved and new markets being opened up 

 at distant points the era of co-operation 

 is dawning. 



Failures there are Ixjund to be. Here- 

 after, however, instead of being taken as 

 signs that co-operation cannot be exiKx;ted 

 to succeed in Canada, they will be searched 

 for the object lessons they teach. Each 

 failure will help other organizations to 

 make greater successes. The favorable re- 

 ports from Great Britain this year con- 

 cerning the consignments of apples from 

 the Simcoe and Newcastle Fruit Growers' 

 Associations are only another evidence 

 that the day is here when fruit growers 

 must co-operate before they can attain the 

 greatest measure of success. 



THE BROWN-TAIL MOTH 



As the fearful character of the ravages 

 of the Brown-tail and Gipsy Moths in 

 Massachusetts become better known we may 

 well give our warm support to the com- 

 mendable efforts of the -Dominion Depart- 

 ment of Agriculttire as well as of the Pro- 

 vincial Departments of Agriculture in the 

 Maritime Provinces to prevent these pests 

 from becoming established in our ejistern 

 provinces. Ten years ago Massachusetts 

 had the matter well in hand, but the in- 

 difference of the public to the danger re- 

 sulted in a relaxation of the effort to con- 

 trol the pests, and now the state is spend- 

 ing tens of thousands of dollars a year with 

 a greatly lessened praspect of success. In 

 the affected districts of Massachusetts real 

 estate has fallen in value about twenty-five 

 per cent, during the last five years. 



The bodv of the moth is covered with 

 split hairs which are barred like a quill of 

 the porcupine and exude a poison. These 

 hairs, blown on the wind or falling from 

 the trees, as the mcth itself very frequent- 

 ly does, on coming in contact with the 

 human flesh, will sometimes poison the sys- 

 tem so that the afflicted on<i has freqtiently 

 to take to bed. It is b'To:i ing known that 

 the Brown-tail Moth has been found ni 

 Nova Scotia, and already tourists in writ- 



ing to hotels for accommodation, are be- 

 ginnin'.; to ask if th© Brown-tail Moth 

 exLsts in the locality. 



This is the time for every possible step 

 to be taken to control this pest and to 

 prevent its fiiither introduction into our 

 eastern provinces. A dollar expended care- 

 fully now may save the necessity of spend- 

 ing several thousand dollars a few years 

 hence. 



BRITISH COLUMBIA ENTERPRISE 



The Fruit Division of the British Colum- 

 bia Department of Agriculture is not likely 

 to be accused of lack of enterprise. Last 

 year it had its special representative visit 

 the leading fruit markets of the prairie 

 province during the summer months and 

 report weekly the condition of these mar- 

 kets, the character of the demand likely to 

 prevail during the ne.xt few weeks, the 

 style of pack desired and furnish other 

 similar information. These reports proved 

 of great value to the fruit growers of the 

 province. 



This year a still more comprehensive sys- 

 tem of market reporting is being adopted. 

 Agencies are being established in the prin- 

 cipal distributing markets of the west and 

 these will forward regular telegraphic re- 

 ports to Victoria of local conditions which 

 will be revised and a summary wired to the 

 affiliated fruit growers' associations of the 

 province. In addition a man will be main- 

 tained across the United States border to 

 the South who will rejjort on market con- 

 ditons there, and thereby keep the fruit 

 growers of British Columbia in" touch with 

 what their principal rivals to the South are 

 doing. By telegraphing these reports the 

 department expects to save at least five 

 days in the transmission of this news. 



While, except in the Niagara District, 

 there is not the same need for such prompt 

 reports here in the ea.st, an effort might 

 well be made to distribute more general 

 information and more promptly in regard 

 to fruit conditions. We now have a var- 

 iety of reports, but none that are fully 

 satisfactory. 



"A CLEAN-UP HALF-HOLIDAY 



On the editorial page of a recent issue 

 of the Summerland (B.C.) Review appear- 

 ed the following notice : 



"MtJNICIP.\LITY OF 8rMMBRL.\ND. 



"I hereby proclaim THURSDAY, 

 "May, 18th, 1911, a Civic Holiday, and 

 "call upon all Summerland citizens to 

 "observe the same by participating in 

 "a general clean-up. 



JAS. RITCHIE, Reeve." 

 While the foregoing notice has son:. 

 amusing features, inasmuch as it leaves us 

 in doubt as to the character of the clean- 

 up needed, and gives reason for us to coi 

 elude that the citizens of Summerland mw> 

 have been in great need of a "clean-up' 

 when a full day off was required to attend 

 to it, it also has its commendable side. I1 

 too many of our smaller towns and citi< 

 such an annual "clean-up" is needed. Tin 

 announcing of a public holiday in order 

 that the work might be attended to wouM 

 not only lead to an improvement in tli 

 appearance of the municipality, but al.^^ 

 lead the citizens to take a greater interest 

 in maintaining the surroundings of their 

 homes in a more neat and attractive con- 

 dition. 



Last year the experiment was tried in 

 Goderich, Ont.. of having the scrapings 

 from the lawns and gardens of the town 

 left in front of the hou.ses on a certain day 

 where they were collected by vehicles sent 

 around by the municipality. It proved 4 



