February, 1913 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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admitted into Canada duty free. As far 

 as we know there is mo opposition to this 

 proposal. These machines are not manu- 

 factured in Canada, nor are they likely to 

 be for many years. The Canadian Mamu- 

 facturers' Association favors the sugges- 

 tion. As the undemdrainimg of hundreds of 

 thousands df acres of land in Canada is a 

 crying- necessity, the Govermment will 

 serve the best interests of the country if 

 it consents to the adoption of the resolu- 

 tiom . 



Ontario's Provincial Market Commis- 

 sioner in Western Canada has reported 

 that Ontario fruit is better in quality than 

 any other offered in Winnipeg and on other 

 mid-central western markets, but that its 

 grading and packing frequently leaves much 

 to be desired. The Canadian Horticul- 

 turist long advocated the appointment of a 

 market commissioner for Ontario in order 

 that the defects of Ontario's methods of 

 packing might be brought home more for- 

 cibly to the growers by an impartial agent. 

 Now that the facts are being laid before 

 the growers steps should be taken as 

 speedily as possible to ensure Ontario's 

 fruit being laid on the markets in Western 

 Canada in better condition. Ontario is 

 behind British Columbia in this respect, 

 and will continue to be until more energetic 

 efforts are made to bring about an im- 

 provement in the apple pack of the pro- 

 vince. 



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The suggestion has been made to The 

 Canadian Horticulturist, and we pass it 

 along with pleasure, that the Dominion 

 Parliament, mow in session at Ottawa, 

 might fittingly recognize and advertise the 

 fruit industry of Canada by the adoption 

 of a resolution accepting the apple as the 

 national fruit of Canada. The apple is 

 grown to perfection in Canada from the 

 Atlantic to the Pacific. The quality of the 

 Canadian apple is not surpassed anywhere 

 else in the world. What do our readers 

 think of this suggestion ? 



That the fruit growers of Lambton 

 county are awakening to their opportumi- 

 ties may be gathered from the fact that 

 they have cooperated recently in the forma- 

 tion of the Lambton Publicity and Develop- 

 ment Association which has for its ob- 

 ject the development of the latemt resources 

 and opportunities of the county. The as- 

 sociation has issued am attractively word- 

 ed and illustrated pamphlet showing fruit 

 and farming scenes in the county. It is 

 entitled, "Come to Lambton County in 

 Sunny South-Westem Ontario." Other 

 fruit sections in Ontario might well follow 

 this example. They are not likely to at- 

 tract settlers and capital until they them- 

 selves appreciate their own natural re- 

 sources and the opportunities which they 

 have to offer to others, amd then make 

 them known. 



PUBLISHER'S DESK 



The front cover illustration of this issue 

 of The Canadian Horticulturist was ob- 

 tained from a photograph taken in the; or- 

 chard of Mr. Brimmingcomc, of Godcrich. 

 Mr. Brimmingcome is one of a number of 

 orchardists who are helping to bring 

 Huron county to the front by their up-to- 

 date orchard methods. Am evidence of 

 the success which is attending their efforts 



was shown by the illustration on the front 

 cover of The Canadian Horticulturist for 

 January. 



This issue of The Canadian Horticultur- 

 ist breaks several records. It contains 

 more pages than we have ever before pub- 

 lished, and the volume of advertising car- 

 ried establishes a new high water mark. 

 We have endeavored to make this issue 

 also of special interest and value to our 

 readers. It is our desire that every success 

 as it is achieved shall only prove a spur 

 to increased efforts for further improve- 

 ment. Our plans fox our March issue are 

 such that we can assure our readers that 

 they will be delighted with it when it 

 reaches their hands. Help us to make The 

 Canadian Horticulturist a credit to the 

 fruit and floral interests of Canada. 



SOCIETY NOTES 



We invite the officers of Horti- 

 cultural Societiee to send in short, 

 pithy reports of work that would In- 

 terest memibers of other Horticultural 

 Societies. 



SEAFORTH 



At the annual meeting of the Seaforth 

 Horticultural Society the following resolu- 

 tion, which contains a suggestion for other 

 societies, was passed: "Believing that the 

 condition of the property on Main street, 

 between Stewart's blacksmith shop and 

 Kerslake's feed store ,to eb a disgrace to 

 the town of Seaforth ,we urge upon the 

 Mayor and Council to take whatever steps 

 are necessary to have this eyesore cleaned 

 up." 



MONTREAL 



A prosperous year's record was shown 

 in the report presented at the annual 

 meeting of the Montreal Horticultural So- 

 ciety held recently. Votes of thanks were 

 tendered to residents who had opened their 

 conservatories during the months of Febru- 

 ary and March. Resolutions of sympathy 

 ■ were tendered to the families of Sir Edward 

 Clouston, Messrs. Wm. M. Ramsay, G. M. 

 Hays and R. Wilson Smith. 



The following officers were elected : 



Honorary Presidemt — Hon. Senator Mac- 

 kay ; Hon. First Vice-President — Jas. Mor- 



gan, Esq. ; Hon. Second Vice-President— 

 Jonathan Brown ; Hon. Botanst, Rev. Robt. 

 Campbell, D.D. ; President— D. Lome Mc- 

 Gibbon; Vice-President — Charles B. Gor- 

 don. 



Directors — Sir H. Montagu Allan, Hemry 

 Birks, Esq., B. Hal. Brown, Mortimer B. 

 Davis, H. A. Ekers, Chas. Meredith, Sir 

 Thomas Shaughnessy, A. E. Ogilvie, A. J. 

 Dawes, Sir Hugh Graham, John Stewart, 

 James R. Wilson, L. Payette, C. P. Beau- 

 bien, K.C., W. G. Ross, Hon. Nathaniel 

 Currie, D. Forbes Angus, J. C. Macdiar- 

 mid and His Worship Mayor Lavalee. 



The executive committee were elected as 

 follows : 



Robert Burrows, chairman, W. J. Wil- 

 shire, Joseph Bennett, C. A. Smith, Geo. 

 A. Robinson, H. Schoning, R. T. Pinker- 

 ton, George Trussell, E. J. Hayward, I. 

 Rubenstein, A. Ferguson, W. G. Pascoe, 

 J. Luck, J. Turner, Wm. Ewing, Jr., Geo.' 

 Bayles. 



Secretary-treasurer A. J. Bowles. 



TORONTO 



As a result of the change in the Horti- 

 cultural Societies Act for Ontario, made 

 last year, which enables Toronto ^ form 

 two Societies, a meeting of the High 

 Park Ratepayers' Association was held, at 

 which the Association was re-organized as 

 The High Park Horticultural Society. 



The Society starts off with a member- 

 ship of one hundred and fifty paid mem- 

 bers and a considerable number of associate 

 members ready to continue under these 

 auspices the work formerly carried on with- 

 out' assistance by the High Park Rate- 

 payers' Association. The organization of 

 this horticultural society enables it to pro- 

 cure from the Government in the first year 

 of its operation a grant of $75, and after 

 that a grant as high as $500 dependent 

 on the membership. The plan of cam- 

 paign including the giving of shrubs, trees 

 and flowers, and awarding of prizes will be 

 put in operation by the officers elected. 



The officers elected are as follows : Pre- 

 sident, D. G. M. Galhraith; vice-president, 

 A. Chamberlin ; first vice-president, Wm.' 

 H. Reid ; secretary, J. H. King ; treasurer 

 F. R. Snow. Directors — William Morman, 

 John Harris, R. W. Scaddimg, W. H. Price, 

 Wm .McTavish, George Stevenson, R. J. 

 Buller, D. Paterson, George Birdsall. 



British Columbia Fruit Grovrers Wide Aivake 



Matters of mot only provincial but of 

 national importance were discussed and 

 dealt with by the members of the British 

 Columbia Finuit Growers' Association at 

 their 23rd annual convention held in Vic- 

 toria, B.C., January 6, 7, amd ^ These in- 

 cluded increases in the duty on fruit, the 

 inspection of fruit, transportation problems 

 and similar subjects. 



Hon. Price Ellison, Provincial Minister 

 of Agriculture amd Finance, congratulated 

 the fruit growers on having the cleanest 

 fruit producing country in the world, a re- 

 sult he attributed to the services of Mr. 

 Thomas Cunningham, the provincial fruit 

 inspector. The cost of fighting infection 

 was too heavy an impost for the industry 

 to bear, jind they were justified in their 

 endeavors to prevent infected fruit being 

 brought in. But they must bear in mind 

 that their aim must be to give the whole- 

 saler, and through him, the consumer, the 

 goods he wants when he wants them, and 

 this would be enormously helped by the es- 

 tablishmeint of cold storage. The growers 

 were urged to encourage the establish- 

 ment of cold storage plants by subscribing 



for stock, in which event the provincial 

 goveriiment might be induced to give 

 financial assistance. 



The growers, the Minister said, had a 

 right to demand a higher import duty on 

 United States produce, in fact to be pro- 

 tected as much as those engaged in amy 

 other industry, and the consumer would 

 mever notice the difference in fruit. They 

 must keep on asking for what they wanted 

 and what they had a right t<i ask for till 

 they got it. 



president's address 



Mr. W. C. Ricardo, president of the As- 

 sociation, declared that the time had ar- 

 rived to press for better protection for or- 

 chards against infected countries and when 

 the home and Canadian markets generally 

 should he kept for Canadian fruit amd free 

 from the dumping of produce from other 

 countries. While lower prices must be ex- 

 pected, profits could be raised by closer 

 attention to the manufacture of by-pro- 

 ducts and the reduction of the cost of pro- 

 duction. He corrected an idea that had 

 got about that_ poor organization had been 

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