May, 1913 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



133 



ada have much to g-ain and nothing- to lose 

 from the proposed changes in the United 

 States tariff. 



The Horticultural Societies Act of On- 

 tario is probably the best act of the kind 

 in force in any province of Canada or state 

 in the American Union. A number of pro- 

 vinces and states make annual grants to 

 horticultural exhibitions of one kind or 

 another. None that we know of make 

 annual grants to local horticultural socie- 

 ties baised upon their membership and ex- 

 penditures for horticultural purposes. State 

 or provincial legislatures which desire to 

 promote the horticultural interests of their 

 people will do well to examine carefully the 

 Horticultural Societies Act of Ontario. 



PUBLISHER'S DESK 



The annual meeting- of The Horticultural 

 Publishing Co., Limited, was held in Tor- 

 onto on March 27th. The reports present- 

 ed showed that great progress had been 

 made and that the Company was in the 

 strongest position in its history. A sub- 

 stantial addition was made to the reserve 

 fund from the profits on the year's busi- 

 ness. The Horticultural Publishing Com- 

 pany publishes The Canadian Horticultur- 

 ist and The Canadian Florist, and is now 

 commencing also the publication of The 

 Beekeeper. The officers of the Company 

 were all re-elected, and are as follows : 

 President. W. H .Bunting, St. Catharines; 

 vice-president, John H. Dunlop, Toronto ; 

 managing director and secretary-treasurer, 

 H. B. Cowan, Peterborough ; directors, A. 

 W . Peart, Burlington ; Hermann Simmers 

 and P. W. Hodgetts, Toronto; Harold 

 Jones. Prescott. 



Starting with this issue The Canadian 

 Horticulurist hereafter will be published 

 in two editions. Thie first or regular edi- 

 tion will be called The Canadia-n Horticul- 

 turist, and will appear in exactly the same 

 form as the paper has had in the past. The 

 second edition will be called "The Cana- 

 dian Horticulturist and Beekeeper." It 

 will be mailed to those readers of The 

 Canadian Horticulturist who are especially 

 interested in beekeeping, and will contain 

 features that will be of special interest to 

 them. The cover of the second edition will 

 differ from the cover of the first edition 

 only in the addition of the word "Bee- 

 keeper." Some five pages of matter ap- 

 pearing in the first or regular edition of 

 The Canadian Horticulturist will be re- 

 placed in this issue by an equal number 

 of pages of matter relating- to the beekeep- 

 ing industry. The pages in the May issue 

 of The Canadian Horticulturist that will be 

 changed will be pages 129, 130, 131, 1.33, 

 and 134. There will be no other change. 

 Owing to the heavy expense involved in 

 making the changes necessitated by the 

 publication of this second edition the sub- 

 scription price of The Canadian Horticul- 

 turist and Beekeeper will be $1.00 a year 

 and not 60c a year, which will continue to 

 be the regular subscription price, for the 

 present at least, of The Canadian Horti- 

 culturist. This second edition of The Can- 

 adian Horticulturist has been started as a 

 result of the earnest solicitation of the offi- 

 cers of The Ontario Beekeepers' Associa- 

 tion, who have appointed it their official 

 organ and subscribed for it for all of their 

 nearly «ight hundred members. As there 

 ar« some eleven thousa-nd beekeepers in 



Ontario alome, and as the great majority 

 of these are interested in fruit growing, 

 it will be seen that the new edition of The 

 Canadian Horticulturist has a wide field in 

 which to work. The advertisers in The 

 Canadian Horticulturist will receive the 

 full benefit of this departure as their ad- 

 vertisements will be published in both edi- 

 tions without change. Readers of The 

 Canadian Horticulturist who would like to 

 have their subscriptions chainged in order 

 that they may receive instead The Cana- 

 dian Horticulturist and Beekeeper may 

 have the change made upon request. 



Have you noticed the "Absolute Guaran- 

 tee" of our advertisers that we publish on 

 the editorial page of each issue ? Are you 

 aware that The Canadian Horticulturist, 

 with its companion publication. Farm and 

 Dairy, are the only two publications in 

 Canada that give such a guarantee of their 

 advertisers ? We take great pains to see 

 that none but the most reliable advertise- 

 ments are admitted to the columns of The 

 Canadian Horticulturist. This involves 

 the refusal by us of large volumes of busi- 

 ness that readily find admittance to the 

 columns of mast other publications, but it 

 enables us to give our readers the benefit 

 of this guarantee. Read it and see how 

 thoroughly your interests are protected 

 every time you buy from one of our adver- 

 tisers and tell them that you saw their ad- 

 vertisement irf The Canadian Horticulturist. 



Ask for what you don't see, is a good 

 adage, and applies particularly well to a 

 magazine. It is our endeavor as a horti- 

 cultural magazine to keep our columns 

 filled with advertising of interest to our 

 readers, to be able to have them say, 

 "When I want anything in the horticul- 

 tural line, I only have to look among the 

 advertisements in The Canadian Horticul- 

 turist." Sometimes, however, it is a diffi- 

 cult matter to get every line represented 

 and so occasionally some of our readers 

 write in with inquiries about certain ar- 

 ticles which they do not find in our columns. 

 We are glad to get such requests. During 

 the next few weeks you will be requiring 

 many articles in connection with your or- 

 chard, garden, or house, some of which 

 you may not find advertised. Do not be 

 afraid to write to us. We are constantly 

 in touch with reliable firms handling goods 

 of nearly every description. Our motto is 

 "Service," and we will always be pleased 

 to supply you with any information avail- 

 able. 



International Score Card Com- 

 petition 



A feature of the next meeting of the 

 American Pomological Society will be a 

 score card judging contest. The purpose 

 of this work is to bring about a more uni- 

 form and systematic system of judging 

 fruits in competition. First, by bringing 

 together a comprehensive collection of 

 fruits from all parts of the continent ; se- 

 cond, by requiring all contesta-nts to use 

 the same score card values ; third, by re- 

 quiring each contestant to judge both var- 

 ieties of his own section and those from 

 distant sections ; fourth, by submitting a 

 full explanation of the scores made by 

 contestants to the convention, together 

 with an explanation of the values written 

 into the score cards. 



This ought to result in several distinct 

 advantages to both the producers and the 

 consumers. The one ought to learn what 

 to strive for in producing a fruit ; the 

 other ought to learn what constitutes a 



good fruit; and both ought to obtain a 

 knowledge of the characters of fruits that 

 are of particular importance and value. It 

 is confidently expected that this step will 

 inaugurate a distinct movement for better 

 fruit, and that the growing, exhibiting, 

 and marketing of fruit will receive a posi- 

 tive stimulus through the general introduc- 

 tion of a uniform score card practice in 

 judgrung competitive exhibits. At present 

 sixteen Agricultural Colleges have express- 

 ed hearty support of a plan to have tf ams 

 of three from each of these institutions 

 participate in the contest. 



SOCIETY NOTES 



Wo in-vite the ofBcera of Horti- 

 OTiltUTal Societies to send in ehort, 

 pithy rei>orta of work that would in- 

 terest memibens of other Horticultural 

 Societies. 



Perth 



The April meeting of the Perth Horti- 

 cultural Society had a number of inspir- 

 ing features for those who are interested 

 in the elevating service in which the true 

 friends of the garden are concerned. The 

 membership has been showing a steady in- 

 crease for a number of weeks. It is now 

 beyond the two hu-ndred mark. The mer- 

 its of the cause are prized not only by the 

 people of the town, where the majority of 

 the membership is found, but by the peo- 

 ple in the country nearby, and as far on 

 one side as twelve miles ,and on another 

 side as far as twenty. — A. H. S. 



Peterboro 



The spring option list of the Peterboro 

 Horticultural Society is as follows, each 

 member being entitled to any one of the 

 options, as well as to a year's subscription 

 to The Canadian Horticulturist : 



No. One — One box Asters, mixed ; one 

 box Stocks, mixed ; one box Phlox, mixed. 



No. Two — Three Paeonies. asorted col- 

 ors. 



No. Three — Three Calla Lilies, white, 

 yellow and black. 



No. Four — Six Dahlia Roots, choice vari- 

 eties. 



No. Five — Six Geraniums in four .inch 

 pots. 



No. Six — Six Salvia, in three inch pots. 



No. Seven— Twelve Groff's Hybrid Glad- 

 iolus, choice varieties. 

 choice varieties. 



No. Eight — One Clematis Jackmani, 

 three-year-old plants. 



No. Nine — One Dutchman's Pipe, choice, 

 four foot plants. 



No. Ten^ — Five Delphinium, or Perennial 

 Larkspurs. 



No. Eleven — Five hardy Garden Phlox ; 

 new varieties. 



No. Twelve — One Boston or Whitmami 

 Fern. 



No. Thirteen — One Kentia Palm. 



No. Fourteen' — Five Herbert Red Rasp- 

 berry; five Black Diamond Raspberry. 



No. Fifteen — Five Gooseberry Bushes ; 

 five Black Currants. 



The annual convention of the Canadian 

 Horticultural Society is to be held in Peter- 

 boro this summer and the local Society is 

 planning to hold a Horticultural Exhibi- 

 tion. 



The county of Grey (Ontario) has de- 

 cided to make an exhibit of apples at the 

 Ontario Horticultural Exhibition in Toi^ 

 onto next November. 



