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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



February, 1913 



The Canadian Horticulturist wmimmmmmmmm'mmmmm advertise the apple 



Publiskad br The HorticuUural 

 Publiihinc Company, Limited 



PJEa'KRBORO, ONXA.RIO 



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EDITORIAL 



The Only Horticultural Magazine 

 in the Dominion 



OmoiAL Oroan or the Ontakio and Quebec 

 Fruit GROWKRa' A8«ooiation» 



H. BnONSON CowAir, Msnaglngr Diraotor 



1. The Canadian Horticulturist is published on 

 tho 26th day of the month preceding date of 

 issue. 



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 Britain, 60 cents a year; two years, $1.00. For 

 United States and local subscriptions in Peter- 

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 extra a year, including postage. 



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6. Advertising rates $1.25 an Inch. Copy re- 

 ceiyed' up to the 18th. Address- all advertising 

 correspondence and copy to our Advertising 

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7. Articles and lUustrations for publication 

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CIRCULATION STATEMENT 



The following is a sworn statement of the net 

 paid circulation of The Canadian Horticultvirist 

 for the year ending with December, 1912. The 

 ilgures 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, 1912 9,988 



February, 1912 10,437 



March, 1912 ■■ 10,877 



April, 1912 ......11.788 



May, 1912 12,112 



June. 1912 10,946 



July. 1912 ,...10,986 



August, 1912 ■■ 11,118 



September. 1912 10.997 



October. 1912 10,971 



November. 1912 11,162 



Desember, 1812 11,114 



152,556 



Average each issue in 1907, 6,627 



1908, 8,695 



" " " " 1909, 8,970 



" " 1910, 9,067 



" " 1911, 9,541 



" " " " 1912, 11,046 



January, 1913 11,243 



Sworn detailed statements will be mailed 

 upon application. 



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We guarantee that every advertiser is this issue 

 is reliable. We are able to do this because tho 

 advertising columns of The Canadian Hortiout 

 turist are as carefully edited as the reading 

 columns, and because to protect our readers we 

 turn away all unscrupulous advertisers. Should* 

 any advertiser herein deal dishonestly with any 

 subscriber, we will make good the amount of 

 your lose, provided such transaction occurs with- 

 in one month from date of this issue, that it is 

 reported to us within a week of its occurrence, 

 and that we find the facte to be as stated. It 

 is a condition of this contract that in writing to 

 advertisers you state: "I saw yotir advertisement 

 in The Canadian Horticulturist." 



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 of our Bubecribers, who are our friends, through 

 the medium of these columns; but we shall not 

 attempt to adjvist trifling disputes between sub- 

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Oommunications should be addressed 



THE CANADLiN HORTICULTURIST, 



PETERBORO, ONT. 



SPRAYING EXPERIMENTS 



The increased attention bfi-ng given by 

 our aK:ricultural colleges and experimont 

 st.itioiis to the prosecution of extensive ex- 

 periments in sprayLng- (both in the or- 

 chard and greenhouse) is only one of the 

 many indications of the great advances 

 that have taken place in this practice dur- 

 ing the past ten years. This is mot to be 

 wondered at. The increased financial re- 

 turns which invariably follow thorough, 

 well-timed spraying have been demonstrat- 

 ed so conclusively, the practice; is becom- 

 ing well night universal among our lead- 

 ing omchardists. 



This is a season during which the fruit 

 grower whO' has not already done so should 

 aim to post himself in regard to the latest 

 results obtained by the experiment stations 

 of both Canada and the United States. 

 Speaking generally it may be said that no 

 fungicide has been found that holds dis- 

 eases in check as well as Bordeaux. One 

 of the chief objections' to the process, how- 

 ever continues to be the fact that when 

 showers follow soon after an application 

 df Bordeaux the leaves are likely to be 

 spotted and the fruit russeted by the 

 fungicide. When the apples are sold in 

 barrels this injury is seldom great enough 

 to be of importance. 



Lime-sulphur has m most cases proved 

 a satisfactory substitute for Bordeaux. It 

 caues little or no injury and in some sea- 

 sons controls the disease as well as Bor- 

 deaux. Experiment conducted by the New 

 Hampshire experiment station show that 

 commercial lime-sulphur, diluted two to 

 fifty, has been repeatedly used on foliage 

 without injurv although a weaker spr^y is 

 probablv desirable. Arsenate of lead is the 

 onlv insecticide that has proven satisfac- 

 torv for use with lime-sulphun. For such 

 diseases as the leaf spot the self -boiled 

 lime-sulphur has given good results, but 

 in most cases it has not held other dis- 

 eases in check as well as Bordeaux and 

 commercial lime-sulphur. 



Helpful bulletins and pamphlets dealing 

 with spraving that have reached The Can- 

 adian Horticulturist during the past few 

 months and which our readers might well 

 write for, if looking for information on 

 these subjects, include the follomng 

 among others: "Concentrated Lime-Sul- 

 phur Sprav," bulletin 115, of the State 

 College. Centre County, Pennsylvania; 

 "Fungicides in the: Apple Orchard," bv 

 Chas Brooks of the New Hampshire Col- 

 lege Durham. N.H.; "The More Import- 

 and" Insect and Funrrous Enemies of the 

 Fruit and Foliage of the Apnle," by A. 

 L Ouaintance and W. M. Scott, being 

 Farmers' Bulletin 492 of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, Washington; 

 "Tests of Summer Sprays on Apples, 

 Peaches etc.", being part five of the an- 

 nual report of the Connecticut Experiment 

 Station, New Haven, Conn. ; "Orchard 

 Spraving Exneriments," being bulletin 

 numbeir 198 olf the Maine Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station. Orono, Maine: "Some 

 Common Sprav Mixtures," by O. S. Wat- 

 kins, of the Airricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion. Urbpma, 111 : and "Injurious Insect 

 Pests. Fungous Diseases, and Sprav For- 

 mulae," being circular 58 of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Albany, N.Y. 



Ihc value of the apple as an article of 

 diet should be advertised more widely. 

 Fruit growers have not awakened to the 

 possibilities of an intelligently conducted 

 campaign of this character. The explana- 

 tion of the comparatively small home de- 

 mand for our unequalled Canadian apple, 

 with the consequent prevailing low average 

 prices paid in the home markets, is due 

 to the fact that the Canadian people are 

 not as yet familiar with the value of the 

 apple for dessert and cooking purposes. 



For years the milk of the Holstein cow 

 was considered to be lacking in nutritive 

 value. On the other hand the word Jersey 

 carried with it an implication of the hig-h- 

 est possible quality in milk. Of recent 

 years the Holstein breeders have been con- 

 ducting an intelligent, persistent' educa- 

 tional campaign through magazines and 

 other mediums. They have advertised that 

 the milk of their cows is more evenly bal- 

 anced in the nutritive elements of milk 

 than the milk of any other breed of row. 

 To-day many hospitals are using Holstein 

 milk for infants in preference to other 

 kinds . 



Our Fruit Growers' Associations might 

 well take a leaf from the book of the Hol- 

 stein breeders. Attractive, well colored 

 advertisements of certain brands of apples 

 were they to appear in our magazines and 

 similar mediums would create a surpris- 

 ing demand among our more wealthy class 

 of citizens for this product of our Cana- 

 dian orchards. We have not begun to de- 

 velop the home markets as we might. 



The Hamilton and St. Thomas Horticul- 

 tural Societies are to be congratulated up- 

 on the success of their efforts, in coopera- 

 tion with some of their local newspapers, 

 to publish several pages of illustratioras of 

 beautiful gardens and streets. The St. 

 Thomas Daily Times and The Hamilton 

 Spectator have both issued splendid illus- 

 trated sections showing the homes and 

 gardens of representative citizens. The 

 effect on the public of such enterprise is 

 always beneficial. Officers of other horti- 

 cultural societies would do well to write 

 to these papers for extra copies of these 

 editions in order that their local papers 

 and their own members may be encour- 

 aged to follow these worthy examples. 



The citizens of Toronto through their 

 Boards of Trade and similar organizations 

 have been conducting investigations with 

 the object of ascertaining the cause of the 

 increased cost of living. At the same 

 time they have prosecuted a fruit grower 

 who undertook to sell apples in a market 

 stall in quantities smaller than one bushel. 

 We realize, of course, that the by-laws 

 under which such prosecutions are con- 

 ducted were passed with the object of pro- 

 tecting local taxpayers from competition by 

 non-taxpavers ; but nevertheless, the citi- 

 zens of Toronto should recognize the fact 

 that all such restrictions strengthen the 

 middlemen at the expense of the consumer 

 and thereby add to the cost of living. The 

 elimination of a few by-laws such as the 

 one referred to would have some effect 

 at least towards lowering the price of 

 food products. 



For a year or more an agitation has 

 been in progress in Canada which has for 

 its object the placing of traction ditchers 

 on the free list. In December Mr. A. B. 

 McCoig M.P.. of West Kent, gave notice 

 of a (resolution in the House of Commons 

 declaring that traction ditchers should be 



