January, 1913 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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future development provided this year's 

 horticultural exhibition should be far and 

 away ahead of anything- eastern Canada 

 has yet seen. A great effort should be made 

 to obtain carload exhibits of apples and 

 thus pave the way for the holding of a 

 national apple show in the near future. 



PUBLISHER'S DESK 



Ontario Horticultural Association Convention 



The apples shown on the front cover of 

 this issue of The Canadian Horticulturist 

 were a portion of the 1912 crop of Mr. R. 

 R. Sloan of Porter's Hill, Huron Co. They 

 were Northern Spys and were grown on 

 trees twenty years of age. The orchard 

 was sprayed thoroughly three times with 

 lime-sulphur solution and arsenate of lead. 



So mudh interest was taken by the read- 

 ers of The Canadian Horticulturist last 

 year, in the series of articles we published 

 describing Canadian gardens, arrangements 

 have .been made for the publication this 

 year of a similar series. Most of the gar- 

 dens that will be described will be those 

 of amateurs, like the garden of Mr. Ellis, 

 described in this issue. We will, however, 

 publish descriptions of two or three gar- 

 dens on some of the large estates which are 

 row becoming numerous in Canada. Some 

 of these estates have features that will 

 compare favorably with those that are to 

 be found anywhere in the world. Illustrat- 

 ed descriptions of them we believe will be 

 of great interest to many of our readers. 



In this issue appears the first of a ser- 

 ies of articles dealing with the growing of 

 flowers by amateurs that are to be con- 

 tributed during the next few months by 

 Mr. R. S. Rose, of Peterboro, whose gar- 

 den was described in one of the summer 

 issues of The Canadian Horticulturist last 

 season. Mr. Rose has met with unusual 

 success with gardens he has conducted in 

 Westmount, Quebec, as well as in Peter- 

 boro. His articles will be of special help- 

 fulness to the average amateur flower 

 grower. 



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The enormous purchasing power of the 

 thousands of fruit growers who read The 

 Canadian Horticulturist, is becoming bet- 

 ter appreciated by the large Canadian con- 

 cerns which cater to that trade. Never in 

 'in the history of The Canadian Horticultur- 

 ist have we received as many large ad- 

 vertising contracts from firms looking for 

 business in this field as we have during 

 the past few months. Not only have firms 

 which have been doing business with us 

 for years greatly increased their advertis- 

 ing space, but other large firms, which 

 have never hitherto sought the trade of the 

 fruit growers, have contracted for consid- 

 erable advertising space with the inten- 

 tion of entering into business relations 

 with the fruit growers. The Sherwin-Wil- 

 liams Co., of Montreal, have recently con- 

 tracted for liberal space in which to adver- 

 tise their arsenate of lead. The Pctrie Mfg. 

 Co., of Hamilton, is seeking to introduce 

 their spraying machines, as is the Fruit 

 Machinery Co., of Ingersoll. Other simi- 

 lar firms might be mentioned. These and 

 many other firms realize that there is no 

 better medium in Canada for reaching the 

 fruit growers than The Canadian Horti- 

 culturist. 



Lack of space prevented the completion in 

 the last issue of The Can.\di.\n Horticul- 

 TirRisT of the report of the annual conven- 

 tion of the Ontario Horticultural Associa- 

 tion, held in Torcnto in November, An 

 address that was much appreciated was 

 given by Prof. H. L. Hutt, of the 

 O.A.C., on English gardens. These re- 

 marks were illustrated by a number of fine 

 views . 



Two excellent papers, one dealing with 

 "Continuity of Bloom in Small Gardens," 

 by Mr. W. T. Macoun, of the Central Ex- 

 perimental Farm, and the other with the 

 cultivation of strawberries, by W. A. Dier, 

 of Ottawa, were unusually interesting. 



Mr. R. B. Whyte, of Ottawa, gave an 

 address on the successful growing of per- 

 ennials from seed under ordinary condi- 

 tions. 



For planting, the soil must be very fine, 

 and the sowing must be done early. " I 

 plant in drills, like carrots," said Mr. 

 Whyte, "and put my drills from six to eight 

 inches apart. The seeds I put about one 

 or two inches apart and in depth according 

 to the size of the seed. After planting, I 

 use a common hoe and pack the earth down 

 quite hard. It is very essential that the 

 earth come in close contact with the seeds. 



"Until the plants have appeared above 

 the surface, the earth must never be dry. 

 Shade the bed with cheesecloth or straw. 

 Keep clear of weeds all season by per- 

 sistent working of the soil around the 

 plants. I always try to transplant in Sep- 

 tember, on a wet day if possible. After 

 setting out. the plants should be carefully 

 shaded until they have taken hold. In 

 this connection I may say that I consider 

 fall transplanting better than that done in 

 the spring." 



THE HOLDING OP EXHrBITIONS 



An interesting report was given by Mr. 

 W. B. Burgoyne, of St. Catharines, on 

 the success that has attended the efforts 

 of his local horticultural society in the 

 holding of horticultural exhibitions. Much 

 of the success of the St. Catharines Socie- 

 ty is due to the summer exhibitions that 

 have been a feature of its work for several 

 years as well as to the large fruit, flower 

 and vegetable show that is open to com- 

 petition for the Niagara District and which 

 is held in September each year. 



The report of the Nomenclature Com- 

 mittee, as presented by Jno. Cavers, of 

 Oakville. included a list of twenty-five 

 words the pronunciation of which is often 

 confusing, due to the fact that different 

 pronunciations of these words are in gen- 

 eral use. The committee recommended for 

 adoption certain pronunciations given in 

 the report. 



It was decided to amalgamate the No- 

 menclature and Varieties Committees in a 

 committee to be known as the Names and 

 Varieties Committee. This committee will 

 consist of W. T. Macoun and F. E. Buck 

 of the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa; 

 Prof. H. L. Hutt and Wm. Hunt, of the 

 O.A.C.. Guelph ; H. J. Moore, of the 

 Queen Victoria Park. Niagara Falls -. and 

 Roderich Cameron, of Toronto. During 

 the convention Mr. W. T. Macoun, of the 

 Experimental Farm, Ottawa, made the im- 

 portant announcement that he intends to 

 establish on the farm the most extensive 

 trial grounds in the world for several differ- 

 ent standard varieties of flowers. It is 

 hoped that arrangements can be made 

 through the Names and Varieties Com- 

 mittee to have similar work undertaken, to 

 some extent at least, with other varieties 



of flowers at Queen Victoria Park and at 

 the Guelph Agricultural College. In this 

 way it will become possible to obtain re- 

 liable information at all times concerning 

 these different varieties of flowers from 

 these trial grounds. 



Mr. F. E. Buck, of the Experimental 

 Farm, Ottawa, gave an interesting talk on 

 perennials. 



THE BILL BOARD NUI8AN0B 



A lively discussion took place in regard 

 to the bill board nuisance. The Clinton 

 Society reported that it has succeeded in 

 having this nuisance abolished in Clinton. 

 The delegate of this society who was pre- 

 sent stated that this had been accomplish- 

 ed by calling on the parties who owned 

 the vacant lots on which the bill boards 

 were displayed and inducing them to re- 

 fuse to allow the bill boards to appear 

 there any longer. 



The discussion showed that delegates 

 from many other points desired to abolish 

 bill boards, but that their efforts to do so 

 had not been successful owing in part to 

 the fact that there is no provincial law 

 giving municipalities the power to pre- 

 vent the use of bill boards. It was recom- 

 mended that that association should co- 

 operate with the Ontario Municipal Associ- 

 ation in an effort to gain such legislation, 

 but the discussion ended without any de- 

 cision being reached. 



AN ENJOYABLB PTTNOTION 



An enjoyable feature of the convention 

 was a reception tendered the visiting dele- 

 gats by the officers nd members of the Tor- 

 onto Horticultural Society. The reception 

 hall was nicely decorated for the occasion, 

 the chair being occupied by the president of 

 the Toronto Society, Mr. D. A. Dunlap. 

 President Falconer, of Toronto University, 

 pointed out that Canada being a new coun- 

 try has much to learn from England in the 

 matter of parks and the beautification of 

 cities and private residences. As a means 

 of arousing greater interest as well as set- 

 ting an example in this direction he sug- 

 gested that the railways should do more 

 than they have to beautify their stations, 

 that cities should expend larger sums on 

 their parks, and that in Toronto a zoologi- 

 cal garden should be established. 



Mr. P. W. Ellis, of Toronto, a member 

 of the Queen Victoria Park Commission at 

 Niagara Falls, gavfe an interesting de- 

 scription of the development of that park 

 as well as of plans for its future. He looked 

 forward to the time when the park would 

 be so noted for its beauty at those seasons 

 when certain varieties of flowers are in 

 bloom that excursions will be run to the 

 park at low rates from western Ontario 

 points at least to permit the public to 

 derive greater benefit from the park. Mr. 

 J. E. Atkinson and the past president of 

 the society, Mr. W. G. MacKendrick. also 

 spoke. Refreshments were served. The 

 convention was one of the most successful 

 in the history of the association, and con- 

 tained promise of better conventions to 

 come. 



The high standing of the Wenatchee 

 Valley apples in the Old Country markets 

 was shown recently by an advertisement 

 which reached The Canadian Horticulturist 

 in which an apple dealer of Covent Garden. 

 London, England, was offering five thou- 

 sand five hundred boxes of these apples at 

 a sale, which commenced on Monday, Octo- 

 ber 7th, in wholesale lots of not less than 

 one hundred boxes at the rate of two dollars 

 and eighty-five cents to three dollars and 

 sixty cents a box for four tier boxes. 



