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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



November, 191 1 



The Canadian Horticulturist 



Published by The Horticultural 

 Publishing Company* Limited 



IPBM^KRBORO, ONTARIO 



The Only Horticultural Magazine 



in the Dominion 



Official Organ of the Ontario, Qubbrc, New 



Brunswick and Prince Edward Island 



Fruit Growers' Associations 



H. Bronbon Cowan, Manatring Director 



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CIRCULATION STATEMENT 



The following is a sworn statement of the net 

 paid circulation of The Canadian Horticultur- 

 ist for the year ending with December. 1910. 

 The figures given are exclusive of samples and 

 eipoiled copies. Most months, including the 

 sample copies, from 11,000 to 12,000 copies of 

 The Canadian Horticulturist are mailed to i>eo- 

 ple 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 



1O8.809 



Average each issue In 1907, 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 

 advextisers with our assurance of the adver- 

 tisers' reUabiUty. We trv to admit to onr col- 

 umns only the most reliable axivertisers. 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, evem in the 

 slightest degree, we will discontinue im- 

 mediately the publication of their advertise- 

 ments in The Horticulturist. Should the cir- 

 cumstances warrant, we will expose them 

 through the columns of the paper. Thus we 

 will not only protect our readers, but our repu- 

 table advertisers as well. All that is necessary 

 to entitle you to the benefit of this Protective 

 Policy is that you include in all your letters to 

 advertisers the words. "I saw your ad. in The 

 Canadian Horticulturist." Complaints should be 

 made to us as soon as possible after reason for 

 dissatisfaction has been found. 



Communications should be addressed, 



THE CANADIAN HORTICUITTURIST, 



PETBEBOEO, ONTARIO. 



OUR NEW MINISTER 



The ai)poiiitmeiit of Martin Burroll, 

 M.P., of Grand Fork.s, B.C., as Dominion 

 Minister of Agriculturo, should mean much 

 to the fruit interests of the Dominion. The 

 former Minister of Agriculture, Honorable 

 Sydney Fisher, repr&sented a dairy con- 

 stituency and a dairy province. Under his 

 administration the dairy industry was pro- 

 moted in many ways. The fruit indu.stry 

 was materially helped also, especially by 

 the parsing of the Fruit MarkJs Act, but 

 many felt that possibly it did not receive 

 the attention in some other ways that it 

 might have been given. 



Our new minister of agriculture repre- 

 sents a constituency and a province in 

 which the fruit interests are the chief agri- 

 cultural factor. While we may expect that 

 all branches of agriculture will receive their 

 full fhare of attention at his hands, we may 

 rest assured that the fruit interests of the 

 Dominion will be given every consideration 

 under his administration. At one time 

 Honorable Mr. Burrell was favorable to the 

 fruit division being separated from the 

 dairy division and placed under the man- 

 agement of an independent commissioner. 

 This possibly may be done. We may expect 

 also that conferences of fruit growers from 

 the different provinces will be held more 

 frequently hereafter than they have been 

 in the past. Should these be held regular- 

 ly, even only every three years, they would 

 lie a great " benefit to the fruit interests. 

 The holding of national fruit shows may 

 also be encouraged. There is much that 

 may be done for the fruit interests, and 

 Hon. Martin Burrell may be depended upon 

 to give them every consideration. 



LOOK OUT FOR FRAUDS 



This is a season of the year when we 

 should be on the lookout for fraudulent 

 nursery agents. Almost every year some 

 new method of gulling some at least of the 

 public seems to be devised by sharpers who 

 represent themselves as agents for known 

 and unknown nursery concerns. These 

 agents frequently come to Canada after 

 having worked their game successfully in 

 the United States. Only last week the Ohio 

 Experiment Station found it necessary to 

 issue a warning against agents who were 

 selling one year seedling nursery stock. 



The public should be on its guard against 

 men who pretend to have some new and 

 wonderful variety of vegetable or fruit, and 

 .should in.'ist on being shown reports by ex- 

 Deriment stations showing that the stock 

 has been tested and proved to be worthy. 

 Onr reliable nurserv firms make it a point 

 to equip their agents with credentials which 

 may be seen upon request. There is no 

 reason Why any person, other than those 

 unduly anxious to get rich quick, should 

 be gulled by these frauds. 



PREMIUM LISTS 



Each year many of the horticultural socie- 

 ties in Ontario distribute lists of premiums 

 among their members. The preparation of 

 these lists envolves much labor and thought 

 on the part of the officers of the .societies. 

 Some societies which are fortunate enough 

 to have experts and enthusiasts among 

 their officers, who are willing to devote con- 

 siderable time to this work, issue much bet- 

 ter lists than are distributed by other 



societies. The different societies would Iw 

 greatly helped each year did they have the 

 privilege of seeing the lists issued by other 

 societies. How would it do for the seer? 

 tary of the Ontario Horticultural As,'Ocia- 

 tion to collect a number of the»>e lists and 

 I)ublish them in connection with the annual 

 report of the association. 



The horticultural societies of Ontario will 

 be holding their annual me<!ting8 in Novem- 

 ber. Many of them will ajjpoint delegates 

 to attend the annual convention of the 

 Horticultural A'sociation that will be held 

 in Toronto this month. Were any consider- 

 able number of the societies to make a 

 recommendation to this effect we fe<d sure 

 that their recommendation would be acted 

 upon. Here is an opporunity for the tak- 

 ing of action that should prove helpful to 

 all our .societies. 



STARTING A LIBRARY 



. Last month we suggested that the Ontario 

 Horticultural Association might well under- 

 take the offering of prizes for the best 

 essays by members of horticultural societie.s 

 on the growing of flowers as was done this 

 year through the private efforts of Mr 

 Hermann Simmers, of Toronto, and Mr. R. 

 B. Whyte, of Ottawa. In the event of this 

 proposal being acted uiK)n, we would like 

 to suggest further that the competition 

 should l)e made an annual event. 



Prizes could l>e offered one year for the 

 best essays on the growing of roses. The 

 prize-winning essays could then be pub- 

 lished in the annual report of the Horticul- 

 tural Association. The next year prizes 

 oould be offered for the best essays on the 

 growing of some other variety of flowers, 

 such as sweet peas, bulbs, geraniums or any 

 one of many others. By publishing the 

 prize-winning assays each year in the re- 

 port of the association, these reports would 

 become very valuable, and members of the 

 horticultural societies would be encouraged 

 to pre,serv6 them. Tn the cotirse of a few 

 yeans the reports would become valuable a.* 

 a reference library that would contain full 

 directions in regard to the best methods of 

 culture of practically all the leading varie- 

 ties of flowers. The expense connected 

 with such a competition each year would be 

 light. We trust that the association will 

 decide to act upon this suggestion and to 

 improve upon it in such ways as its officers 

 may suggest. 



TIME TO PROTEST 



A vigorous protest should be lodged in 

 connection with the management of the hor- 

 ticultural building of the Canadian Nation- 

 al Exhibition, Toronto. This building was 

 erected at the request of the fruit, flower, 

 and vegetable growers. ^Tien it was com- 

 pleted it was understood that it would be 

 used solely for their purjioses. At first this 

 was done. During the past couple of 

 years, however, the management of the ex- 

 hibition ha.s located the provincial exhibits 

 in this building, with the results that this 

 year the vegetable and much of the fruit 

 exhibits had to be displayed in tents ctut- 

 .side where thousands of people who visited 

 the horticultural building did not see them. 



Some years ago a dairy building was 

 erected to accommodate the dairy exhibits. 

 Year by year, however, the exhibitors of 

 dairy appliances and dairy nroducts have 

 been forced to show their exhib-ts in other 

 buildings, while space in the dairv building 

 proper has been given over to the sale of 

 ice-cream and to other concessions not en- 

 titled to such consideration. The dairy 

 building in consequence has lost much of its 

 value to those intere-sted in the dairy in- 

 dustrv. Unless our fruit, flower and vege- 



