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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



October, 191 1 



The Canadian Horticulturist 



Published by The Horticultural 

 Publishins Companr, Limited 



PKTKRBOItO, ONTARIO 



The Only Horticultural Magazine 

 in the Dominion 



OrFiciAL Organ of the Ontario, Qckbbo, New 



Brunswick and Prince Edward Island 



Fruit Growers' Associations 



H. Bbonson Cowan, Manacing Director 



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THE CANADIAN H0ETI0ULTURI8T. 



PETBSBOaO, ONTABIO. 



THE ELECTION AND THE FUTURE 



Since the election those fruit and vege- 

 table growers who wore alarmed, and with 

 reason, in regard to how they might be 

 affected by the passing of the reciprocity 

 measure, have been breathing easier. There 

 is little chance now of such a measure being 

 adopted for another nine or ten years at 

 least, and therefore all immediate cause for 

 anxietv has been removed. Nevertheless 

 the election has its lessons which should 

 not be overlooked. 



The inherent weakness of all industries 

 built up behind the walls of protection is 

 that they are subject to constant alarms. 

 Every election is Halle to bring on a clamor 

 for the lowering or removal of the protect- 

 ing tariff. This creates uneasiness in the 

 minds of all connected with these indus- 

 tries and tends to unsettle trade. In Can- 

 ada, hereafter, in spite of the immense 

 vote polled against reciprocity this condi- 

 tion is likely to be most apparent. 



As long as the United States was opposed 

 to free trade there was practically no agi- 

 tation in Canada for it. This accounts 

 for the relief, in this respect, that we have 

 had in the past. Now, however, that the 

 United Statas has shown its willingness to 

 enter into a free exchange of natural prod- 

 ucts the agitation in Canada for the ac- 

 ceptance of the offer is not likely to subside. 

 The urban population of the United States 

 is growing rapidly. Its rural population 

 is remaining stationary or decreasing. 

 Thus year by year the value of the United 

 States markets to our farmers will steadily 

 increase. In Canada, because of our mil- 

 lions of acres of free farm lands, our rural 

 population, for years to come, is likely to 

 increase more rapidly than the population 

 of our towns and cities. Thus our surplus 

 of farm products for export will grow in 

 proportion. This being the case, the de- 

 mand for free trade is moro likely to in- 

 crease from year to year than it is to sub- 

 side. 



It seems altogether likely that the Lib- 

 eral party will continue freer trade as a 

 plank in its platform, including even many 

 lines of manuactured products and an in- 

 crease in the British Preference. This 

 would make the question of freer trade an 

 issiie at each election here-'fter. Thus the 

 battle may have to be fought all over again 

 with its consequent disturbance to busi- 

 ness conditions. The indications ar4 that 

 there lies before us a long period of tariff 

 unrest. 



ESSAY COMPETITIONS 



This year, through the generosity of 

 Messrs. R. B. Whyte of Ottawa the presi- 

 dent of the Ontario Horticultural Associa- 

 tion, and of Mr. Hermann Simmers of To- 

 ronto, a member of the well known firm, J. 

 A. Simmers, Ltd., seedsmen, of Toronto, 

 prizes aggregating fifty dollars in value 

 were offered to members of the Ontario 

 Horticultural Societies contributing the 

 best essays on the subject "My Favorite 

 Garden Flower and How I Grow It." A 

 number of excellent essays have been sub- 

 mitted in this competition, but not nearly 

 so many as there might have been had the 

 competition been more widely advertised by 

 the local horticultural societies. The re- 

 sults of the contest will be announced short- 

 ly and the winning essays printed. 



This is a line of work that the Ontario 

 Horticultural Association might well take 

 up next year and extend. A condition of 

 the contest might be that oomnoting essays 

 must first be read at meetings or exhibitions 

 of the local societies before being eligible 

 to compete for a provincial prize. Later 

 the successful essays could be road at the 

 annual convention in Toronto of the On- 

 tario Horticultural .Association and pub- 

 lished in its annual report, thus receiving 

 wide distribution. There is a great demand 

 for such information as these essays could 

 be arranged to provide. By conducting 

 competitions of this character regularly 

 each year the educational value of our hor- 

 ticultural societies could be much increased 

 without involving the expenditure of more 

 than a trifling sum. 



EXHIBITION SUGGESTIONS 



The fruit growers of Eastern Canada are 

 making rapid progre."*, but much still re- 

 mains to be accomplished. Our greatest 

 need is a broader vision of the possibilities 

 of our industry, more enthusiasm and a 

 spirit of hearty cooperation in efforts 10 

 bring them to pass. In the light of what 

 we might do if we would, what we arc do- 

 ing often seems sadly inadequate. 



This year, for instance. Nova Scotia will 

 export over a million barrels of anples. The 

 fruit is of unusual qiinlity. The bulk of it 

 will grade high. It will bring into the prov- 

 ince several million dollars. This month 

 the Nova Scotia Horticultural Exhibition 

 will be held at Wolfville. It will open on 

 October tenth and last for three days. The 

 prize list amounts to two thousand dollars. 

 Think of it! Two thousand dollirs. It 

 should be twenty, or still better, thirty 

 thousand dollars. But no ! it is two thou- 

 sand dollars. 



Last year British Columbia, which im- 

 ported twenty-eight thousand, one hundred 

 and three barrels of apples and exported 

 onlv one thousand nine hundred and twen- 

 ty-three barrels, held a national apple show, 

 at which fifty thousand dollars was offered 

 in prizes. Five thousand dollars was offered 

 as one prize for the best carload of apples. 

 This year they are holding a provincial 

 show at which the prizes offered will be 

 equally liberal. What, let us wonder, would 

 thpir prize list be if they had an apple crop 

 like that in Nova Scotia ? 



The trouble in Nova Scotia does not rest 

 on the shoulders of the directors of the ex- 

 hibition. It cannot be blamed against the 

 provincial government. It rests with the 

 people of the province as a whole and par- 

 ticularly with the rank and file of the grow- 

 ers themselves. Did they but realize that 

 there is nothing to prevent them from hold- 

 ing a show equal to that held in British 

 Columbia, that doing so would advertise 

 the fruit growing possibilities of the prov- 

 ince to the world as nothinc else could, that 

 it would tend to double and treble the 

 value of the good orchard lands of Nova 

 Scotia, which are ridiculously low, thus in- 

 creasing the prosperity of all the growers, 

 we would soon see Nova Scotia holding an 

 apple show that would be a credit to the 

 East. 



Ontario is but little if any better. It 

 grows the great bulk of the fruit produced 

 in Canada. Each vear it holds an excel- 

 lent provincial horticultural exhibition, but 

 its prize list of less than five thousand dol- 

 lars, a large proportion of that being of- 

 fered for flowers and vegetables, is not 

 what it should be. This year the directors 

 of the Fruit Growers' Association had an 

 opportunity to arriinge for the holding of 

 a national apple show in Ontario next year, 



