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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



July, 191 I 



The Canadian Horticulturist 



Publithed by The Horticultural 

 Publishing Company, Limited 



PBTTBRBORO, ONTA.RIO 



The Only Horticultural Magazine 

 in the Dominion 



OFrioiAL Oroan of the Ontario. Quebec. New 



Brunswick and Prince Edward Island 



Fruit Growers' Associations 



H. Bronson Cowan, Managing Director 



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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 



108.809 



Average each Issue in 1987, 6,627 



" " 1908, 8.69S 



" " " " 1909, 8,970 



" " 1910, 9,067 



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 culturist to feel that they can deal with our 

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 degree, we will discontinue immediately the pub- 

 lication of their advertisements in The Horti- 

 culturist. Should the circumstances warrant, 

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THE CANADIAN HOETTOULTURIST. 



PBTSBBOBO. ONTARIO. 



EDITORIAL 



THE SITUATION IS SERIOUS 



We arc in roceipt of a letter from Dr. 

 C. Gordon Hewitt, Dominion Entoraolog- 

 isfc, in which, after dealing with certain 

 other matters, he congratulates ws upon the 

 timelines.s of the editorial published in our 

 Juno issue, dealing with the Brown-tail 

 Moth situation in Novii Scotia, Dr. Hew- 

 itt visited Nova Scotia recently and 

 found the situation more serious than ever 

 this year. The infestation has spread into 

 Maine, which means that that province too 

 must now exert itself more than ever if 

 conditions are to be controlled. 



The winter nests or webs that have been 

 found in Nova Scotia this year are of an 

 unusually large size. In several cases over 

 one thousand of the young caterpillars have 

 been fotind in a single winter weL. In one 

 case a web contained over one thousand 

 eifjht hundred. Not only should tho local 

 governments of Nova Scotia and New Bruns- 

 wick ptit forth every possible effort to ex- 

 terminate this pest while yet there is a 

 {Missibilitv of doing so but the cooperation 

 of the public should be enlisted aad especially 

 of the school children. Were the public 

 properly informed in regard to the seriou.s- 

 ness of tho situation more might be accom- 

 plished than can be by the necessarily com- 

 oarativel.v limited number of government 

 inspectors that are available for the work. 



OPPORTUNITIES LYING FALLOW 



There are tl'ousand.s of acres of the very 

 best fruit land in Ontario and in Quebec, 

 and in portions of the Maritime provinces, 

 that are waiting to make fortunes for the 

 first enterprising land companies that se- 

 cure their control and make their possibili- 

 ties known to the public. A few of these 

 land companies are much needed here in the 

 east. The succe,s.s a British Columbia com- 

 pany met with last winter selling western 

 fruit lands to people in Montreal and 

 Ottawa proved that there is a good market, 

 even in our eastern cities, for such lands. 

 The ignorance prevalent in our cities con- 

 cerning the possibilities of nearby fruit land 

 is not a credit to the ea.st. A campaign of 

 education, if conducted by the provincial 

 governrrents, would moot with a hearty re- 

 sponse l.y the metropolitan and local press, 

 and immense benefit would result. 



For several years the advantages enjoyed 

 by portions of certain counties in Ontario, 

 adjoining the Georgian Bay, and the great 

 lakes, and the S. Lawrence River have been 

 pretty generally knovn. Government offi- 

 cials have been investing privately in this 

 land, and in some cases have resigned their 

 positions in order that they might the bet- 

 ter develop the orchards they have pur- 

 chased. Private companies have been form- 

 ed also to operate orchards in their 

 districts on a business basis. One company 

 that has h.ad considerable experience in the 

 Georgian Bay District is increasing its capi- 

 tal from twenty-five to one hundred thou- 

 sand dollars. Another company, controlled 

 mainly by English capital, has attracted 

 much attention recently bv leasing and pur- 

 chasing a large number of orchards in the.se 

 sections in the expectation of obtaining 

 handsome returns upon their investment. 

 In one .section of Ontirio the residents are 

 going to extremes in the planting of new or- 

 chards. These facts make it all the more 

 difficidt to understand why it is land com- 



panies, such as operate everywhere '■.<• 

 the west, have not made their appearance 

 in those sections more quickly. 



One of the fir.st signs of improvement haa 

 come from New Brunswick. As noted else- 

 whore in this issue, a company has been 

 formed which has s<'Curod control of 1.200 

 acres of fruit land in the St. John river 

 valley which it is planting out to trees with 

 the purpose of reselling the land in small 

 blocks to Knglish settlers and others. Pro- 

 perly managed, this comi)any, especially if 

 its efforts are encouraged by the provincial 

 governments, as they well might be, should 

 prove a success. Small companies might be 

 formed in the fruit counties <if Nova Scotia 

 and Ontario to boom their local lands in 

 the same manner. 



One explanation of the hick of more enter- 

 prise in this direction is furnished by the 

 comparative apathy of our provincial 

 governments in encouraging immigration to 

 these lands. Once business men see that 

 the local go ernment intends making a 

 vigorous and sustained effort to encourage 

 such immigration thev will be more ready 

 to seize the opiK)rtunitie.s the situation will 

 offer. 



A CLEARING HOUSE FOR IDEAS 



The unselfish devotion of the leading 

 ofiioers and many members of the horticul- 

 tural societies of Ontario to all that is best 

 and most beautiful in nature is the secret 

 of the success of these organizations. As 

 their membership has increased and new 

 lines of work thereby Leon made possible 

 there has been an awakening of interest in 

 the work of the societies that augurs well 

 for the future. The splendid work that is 

 being accompli.shed through the Ontario 

 Horticultural Association in the dissemina- 

 tion of ideas concerning methods of work 

 that have proved successful in different 

 localities has shown the benefit of a cen- 

 tral organization to act as a clearing house 

 as it were, for ideas of this kind. 



There is a greater search to-day on the 

 part of the officers and members of the 

 societies for information that will help 

 them in their work than ever before. The 

 CAN-^m.-vN Horticulturist has felt this 

 pressure. It has led us to establish a de- 

 partment devoted to the work of the horti- 

 cultural societies. As the majority of the 

 horticultural societies of Ontario subscribe 

 for The C-*n.adun Hortici-lturist, for all 

 their members we feel that The C.\naw.\n 

 Horticulturist can be made a means 01 

 greatly assisting them in their work. 



As far as possible we desire to confine 

 the information published in this departs 

 ment to items that will be likely to be of 

 value to other societies by showing them 

 what certain organizations have under- 

 taken or have accomplished. We trust that 

 the officers and even the members of the 

 horticultural societies will assist us to make 

 this department a great success by contri- 

 buting freely suggestions pertaining to tBe 

 work of the societies and items of interest. 



DISCRETION REQUIRED 



The Simcoe Ontario Reformer has ren- 

 dered public service locally by drawing at- 

 tention to the fact that many people are 

 sure to be dL^aopointed as a result of a 

 craze that has set in to ijlant orchards in 

 portions of Norfolk county. The remark- 

 able success that has attended the operations 

 of the Norfolk County Fruit Growers' Asso- 

 ciation, as well as those of several individ- 

 ual growers, has led to land being set out 

 I in orchards wholesole. The Reformer esti- 

 mates that hundre:Is of thousands of trees 

 have been planted in the county, and well 



