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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



January, 1913 



The Canadian Horticulturist 



Publiihad br Tha Horticnllural 

 PublUUnc Companr. Llmltod 



PBTTKRBORO, ONTARIO 



The Only Horticultural Msigazine 

 in the Dominion 



Oftioiai. Oboah of thb Ontario and Qukbbo 

 rsurr Obowbrs' Associations 



H. BmNSON Cowan, HanafflnK Direotor 



1. The Canadian HortlonltiirlB*, la published on 

 the 25th day of the month urecedlng date of 

 iBsne. 



2. Subscription price in Canada and Great 

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

 United States and local snbiicriptlons in Peter- 

 boro (not called for at the Post OfBce), 25 cents 

 extra a year. Including postage. 



3. Remittances should be made by Post Office 

 or Express Money Order, or Registered Letter. 

 Postage Stamps accepted for amounts less than 

 $1.00. 



4. The Law is that subscribers to newspapers 

 are held responsible until all arrearages are 

 paid and their paper ordered to be discontinued. 



5. Change of Address— When a change of ad- 

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 Copy received up to the 18th. Address all ad- 

 vertising correspondence and copy to our Ad- 

 vertising Manager, Peterboro, Ont. 



7. Articles and Illustrations for publication 

 will be thankfully received by the Editor. 



CIRCULATION STATEMENT 



The following is a sworn statement of the net 

 paid circulation of The Canadian Horticulturist 

 for the year ending with December, 1911. The 

 figures given are exclusive of samples and spoiled 

 copies. Mo!?t 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, 1911 8,082 



February, 1911 , 8,260 



March, 19U 8,523 



April, 1911 ».«» 



May, 1911 .9.783 



June, 1911 J0.178 



July, 1911 10.062 



August, 1911 io.m 



September, 1911 »-973 



October, 1911 '•Si 



November, 1911 ;».?^ 



December, 1911 -Wl?/ 



Total 1".«9 



Average each Issue in 1907, 6,627 



' 1908, 8,695 



» ' 1909, 8,970 



•< 1910, 9.067 



" 1911 9,541 



November, 1912 ll,305 



Sworn detailed statements will be mailed 

 upon application. 



OUR GUARANTEE 



We guarantee that every advertiser in this issue 

 is reliable. We are able to do this because the 

 advertising columns of The Canadian Horticul- 

 turist are as carefully edited as the reading 

 columns, and i>ecatise to protect otir readers we 

 turn away all unscrupulous advertisers. Should 

 any advertiser herein deal dishonestly with any 

 subscriber, we will make good the amount of 

 your loss, provided such transaction occurs with- 

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

 reported to us within a week of its occurrence, 

 and that we find the fact« to be as stated. It 

 is a condition of this contract that in writing to 

 a/dvertisers you state: " I eaw your advertisement 

 in The Canadian Horticulturist." 



Rogues ehaJl not ply their trade at the expense 

 of our subscribers, who are otir friends, through 

 the medium of these columns; but we shall not 

 attCTnpt to adjust trifling disputes between sub- 

 scribers and honourable business men who ad- 

 vertise, nor pay the debts of honest bankrupts. 



Communications should be addressed 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST, 



PETERBORO, ONT. 



I EDITORIAL I 

 HEATED CARS 



During- the past few years Canadian 

 fruit growers have won a number of not- 

 able victories over the railway companies 

 by la;, ing their complaints before the Do- 

 minion Railway Commission. One of the 

 most important yet obtained was made 

 known early in December when the board 

 announced its ruling in regard to the re- 

 sponsibility of the railways in the matter 

 of providing suitably heated cars for the 

 transportation of perishable products such 

 as fruit, vegetables, and flowers in less 

 than car load quantities. 



Tihe decision of the board was as fol- 

 lows : 



"It is ordered that, until further or- 

 dered by the board, upon the receipt of 

 reasonable notice from the shipper or 

 shippers, that such is or are required, 

 railway companies subject to the juris- 

 diction of the board, operating in east- 

 ern Canada, which own refrigerator cars, 

 and according- to their respective powers 

 shall furnish to any shipper, or com- 

 bination of shippers, a heated refrigera- 

 tor car, or cars, for the carriage, during 

 cold weather, of fruit, vegetables, and 

 eggs in less than carload quantities, the 

 same to be carted by the shipper, and 

 loaded in the car by the shipper or ship- 

 pers, in the order in which the shipments 

 are to be unloaded. Provided that under 

 this order the carrier be not required to 

 accept shipments necessitating more than 

 five openings of any such car for un- 

 loading purposes, to furnish heated cars 

 for transhipment from the original car 

 for destinations off the route of the said 

 car; to accept less tham a total weight 

 of 12,000 pounds in any such car, or a 

 less aggregate amount in freight car 

 charges than for 12,000 pounds distri- 

 buted pro ratably over the various ship- 

 ments in any car ; to accept such ship- 

 ments unless the freight charges are 

 prepaid, and to assume liability for loss 

 or damage to the property by frost, 

 while in the car, if caused by the open- 

 ing of the car for loading or unloading 

 purposes, or after it has been unloaded 

 from the car." 



While the ruling may not be all that may 

 be desired it is a notable one, and the re- 

 presentatives of the growers may well take 

 heart and press on for the numerous other 

 improvements in shipping facilities that 

 sre still needed. 



PACKING SCHOOLS 



One of the most successful lines of work 

 that has been conducted by the British 

 Columbia Government on behalf of the 

 fruit growers of that province has been 

 the holding of regular packing schools in 

 different parts of the province during the 

 past few years. The Department of Agri- 

 culture provides the instructor and pays 

 his expenses. It also bears the cost of the 

 packing paper, the fruit, and all other 

 legitimate expenses. 



The instructor takes with him the neces- 

 sary packing tables and fruit paper and 

 conducts classes wherever application is 

 made for them by responsible organizations 

 which in each case are required to guaran- 

 tee a minimum of twelve pupils at a fee 

 of three dollars each. The packing schools 



extend orer a week. A •eries of twelre 

 lessons of two and a half hours • ach are 

 givem. The local ortjanization is required 

 to provide « hall and to heat and light it. 

 Pupils who gain a score of seventy-five 

 per cent, for efficiency in the packing 

 school and who put up a creditable pack 

 for the department prizes the following 

 year are given a. diploma by the depart- 

 ment. 



Not enough attention has been given to 

 this line of work by the Ontario and Nova 

 Scotia provincial governments. It is true 

 that the box packing of apples is not as 

 necessary in tie east as it is in the west, 

 but this system of packing has great pos- 

 sibilities, and no better way of encouraging 

 it could be adopted than by providing in- 

 struction of this character. 



A NEW SPIBIT ABROAD 



The mail that reaches our desk from 

 month to month furnisihes excellent evi- 

 dence of the rising tide of public opinion 

 in the matter of civic improvement. A few 

 years ago the number of people in Canada 

 who were doing active public service to- 

 wards civic beautification was almost neg- 

 ligible. Year by year this number has in- 

 creased. Our Canadian clubs and other 

 similar organizations are now quick to in- 

 vite speakers, who are recognized authori- 

 ties on this subect, to address their meet- 

 ings. Tie daily papers and magazines 

 throughout the country are devoting an 

 increasing proportion of their space to the 

 advocacy of proper town planning. This 

 includes the laying out of parks and drive- 

 ways on a systematic basis that will pro- 

 vide for the future development of their 

 municipalities. 



It is not long since a landscape archi- 

 tect was considered a good deal of a curi- 

 osity of unusual hardihood. There was a 

 general feeling that such an individual was 

 ahead of the times. Almost all our lead- 

 ing nursery firms now have expert land- 

 scape architects connected with their staffs 

 and they are devoting an increasing pro- 

 portion of their acreages to the culture of 

 ornamental trees and shrubs. In doing 

 this they are only endeavoring to keep 

 abreast of the increasing demand, cxn the 

 part of towns and cities, for nurse-ry stock 

 of this character- 

 All this indicates that Canada is passing 

 out of the pioneer stages of civilization 

 into a period of greater culture and re 

 finement. More and more readers of The 

 Canadian Horticulturist are asking us to 

 furnish information on this subject. Dur- 

 ing the present year we purpose complying 

 with this demand as far as our space per- 

 mits. Our horticultural societies which 

 have done much to bring about this change 

 in public opinion are now confronted with 

 the responsibility for directing this new 

 and growing movement along right lines. 



The returns of the recent Ontario Horti- 

 cultural Exhibition held in Toronto show 

 that the gate receipts, although the ex- 

 hibition was conducted on the grounds of 

 the Canadian National Exhibition, were 

 twenty per cent, greater than those of the 

 year previous. This demonstrates that the 

 public will attend a horticultural exhibi- 

 tion held elsewhere than in the centre of 

 the city and justifies the action the direc- 

 tors have taken in making application for 

 the use of the new government building, 

 a larger building than the one used last 

 fall, for the purposes of this year's exhibi- 

 tion. With the location of the exhibition 

 permanently secured and ample space for 



