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THE CANADIA^N HORTICULTURIST 



December, 191 1 



The Canadian Horticulturist ^^^^^i^^!^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 



Published by The Horticultural 

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PBTTSRBORO, OI^XiLRIO 



EDITORIAL 



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Fruit Growers' Associations 



H. Bronson Cowan, ManaKing Oireotor 



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The following is a sworn statement of the net 

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 ist for the year ending with December, 1910. 

 The figures given are exclusive of samples and 

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December, 1910 8.662 



UI8,809 



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THE CANADIAN HORTIOUI/TURIST, 



PETBRBORO, ONTARIO. 



A REMARKABLE DEVELOPMENT 



If the development of the fruit industr.y 

 in Ontario may be judged by the improve- 

 ment that has taken place during the past 

 seven years in the number and quality of 

 the exhibits of fruit at the Ontario Horti- 

 cultural Exhibition, and we may believe 

 that it may, then it has been extraordi- 

 nary. Seven years ago, when the first ex- 

 hibition was held in the old Granite Skating 

 Rink, Toronto, less than twenty boxes of 

 fruit were shown. A larger number of bar- 

 rels of fruit were exhibited, but the pack- 

 ing, both of the boxes and of the barrels, 

 was very inferior. At that time the art of 

 proper packing was practically unknown in 

 Ontario. So discouraging was this feature 

 of the exhibition that the then Minister of 

 Agriculture, the late Hon, John Dr.yden, 

 publicly expressed the view that Ontario 

 woald have to bring expert packers from 

 the Pacific coast states to show our On- 

 tario fruit growers how to pack their crops. 

 At that time no one anticipated that there 

 wouM so soon be such a wonderful improve- 

 meat as has since taken place. 



Last week over three thou.sand boxes of 

 fruit were on view at the exhibition. Many 

 more would have been shown had space 

 been available. Almost all of this fruit was 

 splendidly packed, the pack of most of it 

 being close to perfect. In addition the 

 fruit was of better color, size and quality 

 than ever before. While this was due in 

 part to the dry season, which enhanced the 

 color of the fruit, it was due even more to 

 the more thorough spraying, pruning and 

 cultivation now practised in the orchards 

 of Ontario. The exhibition made it mani- 

 fest that Ontario is now about able to hold 

 its own with any other apple producing 

 section on the continent. This means that 

 the time has come when we should under- 

 take the holding of a national apple show. 

 The members of the Ontario Fruit Grow- 

 ers' Association did not endorse this pro- 

 posal «t their recent convention, mainly 

 beca'ise of the fear that Ontario could not 

 compe.'o in an average season against the 

 better colored fruit of British Columbia. 

 What of that? We should not be afraid 

 to take a beating if we have to. We have 

 other advantages, such as nearness to mar- 

 kets, the lower price of our fruit lands, 

 and a more uniform rainfall, that more 

 than offset any present advantages in the 

 coloring of our fruit and which cannot be 

 advertised as they should be by anything 

 l^s than the holding of a national apple 

 show. Such a show would serve to draw 

 the attention of the world to our great 

 fruit possibilities. It would also give us an 

 opportunity to compare our fruit and our 

 methods of packing with the fruit and 

 methods of other noted fruit districts. Thus, 

 while we might lose some of the important 

 awards at the first exhibition, we should 

 leani where we are still weak and thus be 

 enabled to do better in later efforts, On- 

 tario needs the stimulus and enthusiasm 

 which such an undertaking would provide. 

 This matter must not be allowed to drop 

 hut must be kept to the front until such a 

 show is held. 



For the present it ig evident that the 

 Ontario Horticultural Exhibition has out- 

 grown Its present quarters. A strenuous 

 effort should be made next vear to secure 

 the use of the armories. The Ontario gov- 

 ernment should be urged ajso to increase 



SHOULD GRANT APPLICATION 



Ai the convention of the Ontario Horti- 

 cultural Aiisociation, held in Toronto last 

 month, i', was decided to ask the Ontario 

 government to increase the antwal grant 

 to the horticultural societies of the prov- 

 ince from ten thousand dollars to twelve 

 thousand five hundred dollars a year. The 

 goveruu'enr should grant this request. Dur- 

 ing the past five years the membership of 

 th^ hciticiltura' societies in Ontario has 

 almost doubled, having increased from 

 around six thousand to almoi^t eleven thou- 

 sand. 



In the fall of nineteen hundred and nine, 

 l)ecause of the great increase that had taken 

 place in the membership of the societies up 

 to that time, the government was asked to 

 increase the grant from eight thousand dol- 

 lars to thirteen thousand dollars a year. 

 This request was not granted. Instead, 

 the government increased the grant by two- 

 thousand dollars, or to ten thousand dol- 

 lars. Since then the meraber.ship of the 

 societies has increased by approximately 

 3,000, or about one-third. The government 

 grant in consequence is proving quite in- 

 adequate and does not enable the societies 

 t-c carry on the work that they otherwise 

 might. After the first of the year some four 

 new societies are to Le organized. Each 

 new society that is formed decreases the 

 amount of the government grant available 

 for the other societies. Thus conditions 

 are steadily growing worse. 



In asking that the government grant 

 should be increased to twelve thousand 

 five hundred dollars. the societies 

 are asking for even less than they did two 

 years ago. The excellent results that are 

 following the work of the horticultural 

 societies are so apparent in almost every 

 city or town of the province the govern- 

 ment will be amply justified in increasing 

 the grant to the extent desired. 



WOULD HELP FRUIT INTERESTS 



The fruit growers of Ontario mav be par- 

 doned for hearing with interest "the pro- 

 posals of the new leader of the Ontario Lib- 

 eral Party, Mr. N. W. Rowell. in regard to 

 fruit growing. On the whole thev show 

 an acquaintance with the fruit interests of 

 the province not commonly met with in a 

 political leader not actively in touch with 

 agriculture. 



After criticising the government for not 

 realizing more clearly the immense possi- 

 bilities of the fruit interests of Ontario, 

 which produces over 70 per cent, of the 

 fruit grown in Canada, and drawing atten- 

 tion to the vastly increased returns that 

 have been obtained from fruit growing 

 where improved methods have been intro- 

 duced, Mr. Rowell calls for greater ex- 

 penditures by the government on behalf 

 of the fruit industry. In this connection 

 Mr. Rowell advocates the estahlishment of 

 demonstration orchards in practically ev- 

 erv leading fruit growing section of the 

 province. He then proposes that packing 

 schools should be established in the fruit 

 districts and that certificates be granted to 

 those packers who succeed in passing such 

 tests as may be arranged by the govern- 

 ment, on much the same basis as has been 

 done in connection with the packing schools 

 which have proved so successful in British 

 Columbia. 



Mr. Rowell then touches a point of vital 

 interest in many of our leading fruit dia- 



