August, 191 1 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



193 



of their orchards sudi a fate is little bettoii 

 than thev deserve. It is a working out of 

 i the great law that leads the less able to be- 

 ( come dependents on others more intelligent 

 and capable than themselves. Nevertheless, 

 what is the outcome likely to be.^ What is 

 wanted is not a few large concerns with 

 many employees working the land for them, 

 but numerous small orchards managed by 

 independent owners. These small owners 

 must, of necessity, cooperate, but they 

 should not sacrifice their rights to the soil 

 in so doing. This may be looking ahead 

 for trouble, but the tendency referred to 

 should be watched carefully. 



A NARROW MEASURE 



Some montlis ago there cume into our 

 po.?session two photographs that had been 

 taken in the packing rooms at Grimsby, 

 Out., of one of the largest tomato growers 

 in the Niagara District. A polite request 

 was sent by us to this party for some gen- 

 era] information about his methods that 

 might be ixsed in connection with the re- 

 production in The Canadian Horticulturist 

 of these views. No response being received 

 to our first letter, we later sent a second. 

 To this we recently received the following 

 reply : 



''Do you think for one minute that we are 

 "asleep? Don't fool yourself. If the peo- 

 "ple want to grow tomatoes let them get 

 "busy and find out for themselves. We are 

 "not 'learning' other people at our expense. 

 "We do not allow people through the green- 

 "houses and will not give any information 

 "on the subject whatever." 



Once or twice before we have come across 

 misguided men of this type, but we had 

 hoped that in this year of grace the last of 

 them had found by now the error of their 

 way. What a fortunate thing it is for us, 

 and for them, that there are not more of 

 them ! Were this view of life and business 

 to prevail we might expect to find men 

 guarding their establisbments with shot- 

 guns for fear others might learn something 

 from them by peeking over their high-board 

 fences. We would have to discontinue our 

 farmers' institute meetings, fruit and vege- 

 table growers' conventions, packing schools, 

 and so forth, for no one would care to ad- 

 dress them on account of the danger that 

 they migbt let slip some priceless secret. We 

 might as well, also, clo.se our churches, as 

 somebody might learn from us how to be- 

 come Christians, and then there mightn't 

 be room for us all in Heaven. 



Such men deserve our sympathy and tol- 

 erance. They are their own worst enemies. 

 Their mistake arises from the fact that they 

 have failed to comprehend the working of 

 that Divine law which has declared : 



"Give, and it shall be given unto you : 

 good measure, pressed down, and shaken 

 together, and running over, shall men give 

 into your bosom. For with the same meas- 

 ure that ye mete withal it thall be meas- 

 ured to you again." 



The Dominion Government is to be com- 

 mended not only upon having decided to 

 investigate the extent and the possibilities 

 of the fruit growing interests in Canada, 

 but also upon having placed this work in 

 charge of Mr. W. H. Bunting, of St. Cath- 

 arines. No more capable man for the work 

 could have been obtained. Besides having 

 a practical experience, extending over years, 

 in the growing of all the leading varieties 

 of fruit, including not only apples, p«ach(is 

 and pears, but small friiit.s as well, Mr. 

 Bunting has time and again shown his 

 ability in other matters that have involved 

 hundreds of thousands of dollars to the fruit 

 growers of Canada. Upon biin devolved th© 



duty of preparing the main case for the 

 fruit growers in their fight before the rail- 

 way commission, first against the railway 

 and more recently against the express com- 

 panies. How splendidly he succeeded was 

 shown not only by the important conces- 

 sions gained, but by the compliments paid 

 him by two different chairmen of the rail- 

 way commission upon the manner in which 

 he submitted his arguments and presented 

 his facts. We have long needed such a re- 

 port as Mr. Bunting has been deputed to 

 prepare. It may be safely predicted that 

 this report when presented will be thor- 

 ough and authoritative and a credit to the 

 Department of Agriculture. 



Can any readers of The Canadian Horti- 

 culturist furnish us with information con- 

 cerning Charles Arnold, late of Paris, who 

 originated the Ontario apple? One of our 

 subscribers in British Columbia, who has 

 been seeking information on this subject, 

 has written us recently as follows : 

 "A fruit that bears the proud name of 

 your province, and that is among the very 

 .first cross-bred apples, as years go by, and 

 the importance of cross-bred varieties in- 

 creases, will be hunted up for the veriest 

 detail of its origin, which then may not be 

 obtainable owing to those who know having 

 passed on. There must be some among Mr. 

 Arnold's descendants or friends who could 

 give a detailed account of the origin of 

 this apple." Our correspondent is right. 

 It is to be hoped that already it may not 

 be too late to obtain the desired informa- 

 tion about this great variety of apple. 



As the society reports in this issue of The 

 Canadun Horticulturist show, a number 

 of horticultural societies in Ontario have 

 held successful rose shows during the past 

 few weeks. This is an excellent line of work 

 for societies to undertake. It involves con- 

 siderable work for the ofiicers, but nothing 

 worth while can be accomplished without 

 effort. The rose is a popular flower with 

 the public, and a rose show for that reason 

 generally draws a better attendance than 

 can be obtained for other exhibitions of the 

 same class. Societies which have not at- 

 tempted to hold exhibitions could not do 

 better than to start next year with a rose 

 show. 



PUBLISHER'S DESK 



Our front cover illustration this month 

 shows cherry pickers at work in Hillcrest 

 Orchards, Kentville, N. S. The trees are 

 Montgomery variety six years old. In 1909 

 two thousand trees of this orchard produced 

 one thousand three hundred boxes. Indi- 

 vidual trees yielded as much as sixty pounds 

 each. 



A circulation statement, showing the 

 actual paid circulation of The Canadian 

 HoRTicui.TiRiST b.v provinces, and Vy coun- 

 ties in Ontario, has just been prepared. 

 This is given, along with other information 

 that will prove of interest and value to ad- 

 vertisers, in an attractive little folder which 

 we have just issued. Copie-s of this folder 

 will be mailed on request. The number of 

 paid subscribers to The Canadian Horticul- 

 turist is but a few short of ton thousand, 

 which number we expect will soon be ex- 

 ceeded. This great gain in circulation de- 

 monstrates the rapid progress that is being 

 made by T«E Canadian Horticulturist, 



Subscribers sometimes write to us for in- 

 formation, but neglect to sign their names 

 to their letters, using a nom de plume in- 

 stead. Their expectation evidently is that 

 we will publish their question and an answer 

 to it in The Canadian Horticulturist. To 

 all such we would say "DON'T." It fre- 

 quently happens that our space does not 

 permit us to publish such an article, and 

 as we do not know our correspondents' 

 names we are unable to write to them di- 

 rect giving them the information they de- 

 sire by letter. 



For the illustrations of Toronto gardens, 

 published on pages 187 and 188 of this issue, 

 we are indebted to the officers of the Toronto 

 Horticultural Society, who used them re- 

 cently in their excellent year-book for 1911, 

 mention of which was made in our July 

 issue. A number of other equally fine il- 

 lustrations apnear in their year-book, some 

 of which may be used later in The Canadian 

 Horticulturist. 



Next month will appear our Special Ex- 

 hibition and Packing Number of The Cana- 

 dian Horticulturist. It will be all that we 

 have said about it in previous issues and 

 more. The manner in which our leading 

 government officials, both Dominion and 

 provincial, and prominent fruit growers in 

 all our fruit growing provinces, have ral- 

 lied to our a.5sistance has been most gratify- 

 ing. This issue of The Canadian Horticul- 

 turist will be a distinct improvement over 

 anything we have ever before attempted. 

 The illustrations will be a feature that will 

 be certain to please. The colored illustra- 

 tion on the front cover will be both striking 

 and attractive. Many extra copies of the 

 issue will be printed for distribution at the 

 Toronto and other leading exhibitions. Ad- 

 vertisers will do well to reserve large space 

 and soon, as the forms will start going 

 to press early this month and the best posi- 

 tions still loft cannot be held open long. 



SOCIETY NOTES 



We invite the officers of Horti- 

 cultural Societiee to send in short, 

 pithy reports of work that would in- 

 terest members of other Horticultu- 

 ral Societiee. 



^iM^iyiiy^iy! 



MITCHELL 



Our society, which has a membership of 

 over one hundred, has been the means of 

 improving the many homes in this town. 

 There is a healthy rivalry amongst its mem- 

 bers to see whose place can be made to look 

 the best. The fences are taken down be- 

 tween the houses, and the boulevards in 

 their fronts, making altogether one of the 

 prettiest inland towns of Ontario. 



We keep the grounds beautified around 

 the new Carnegie Library, and we are con- 

 templating building a dam below the gates 

 at the waterworks, from the Thames River. 

 There are spring waters running into this, 

 and it is the intention of tho society to 

 clean out tho bed of the river, and have a 

 constant flow of pure running water, with 

 .seats arranged along its sides. At present 

 tho place is an eyesore from the Main 

 Street. The citizens have promised to ooit 

 tribute the larger part of the outlay. 



There is always a looking forward to tho 

 next i.s.sue of The Canadian Horticultur- 

 ist, of which each member gets a copy. lou 

 as well as our.selves are endeavoring to do 

 a good work, and we wish you every suc- 

 cess. — A. J. Blowes, sec.-trea«. 



