December, 1914 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



299 



it here. The retail grocers are in a posi- 

 tion to give the growers great assistance in 

 the marketing of fruit if we receive it in 

 good order and properly packed. The bet- 

 ter condition it reaches us ,the lower is the 

 margin of profit we tan afford to take, and 

 the lower the price to the consumer, the 

 more will there be consumed — and that is 

 what you men are striving for. 



From my own experience, I must say 

 that a great deal of credit is due the Leam- 

 ington fruit growers for the fair way in 

 which they put up their goods. Most of 

 the shippers there are dependable, and you 

 can be certain that the retailers soon be- 

 come acquainted with the good men, and 

 endeavor to get their goods from them. 

 Every man, of course, thinks his goods the 

 best, just as every athlete thinks he has 

 greater powers than his competitor. There 

 are some shippers who mark their goods 

 No. 1, whereas other producers would call 

 them No. 2. Here we have an error of 

 Commission. If the marketing of fruit is 

 to be put upon a satisfactory basis, as a 

 retailer I wouIq think that more care 

 should be taken in this respect. We often 

 purchase goods supposed to be as the top 

 row indicates, but when those underneath 

 are investigated, we find an inferior qual- 

 ity which we cannot send out to our cus- 

 tomers. All of this injures the fruit busi- 

 ness in general, and is not good business 

 on the part of the shipper. It tends to 

 rob him of a good name he would otherwise 

 possess. In retailing it is just the same. 

 If we do not give satisfaction to our cus- 

 tomers, somebody else will, and we lose 

 the trade. 



There are too many disturbing influences 

 in the trade. Supposing a man goes out 

 to the country to visit a friend, and brings 

 home with him what fruit he wants. He 

 usually gets it at a lower price than the 

 retailer can buy in quantities — and he 

 doesn't forget to tell us about it. We are 

 frequently reminded by those who have just 

 come in from the coujntry how cheap apples 

 are. Sometimes they tell us they can al- 

 most get them for carrying them away. 

 They forget that we have high rents to 

 pay, and wages, and everything else con- 

 nected with the stocking, displaying and 

 sellin'^ of apples, and they think they should 

 get them from us as cheaply as they can 

 occasionally obtain them in the coumtry. 

 It is up to the producer, if he wants to 

 get good prices for what he grows, to help 

 maintain prices and not to demoralize them 

 for the retailer from whom he expects so 

 much in the way of getting the goods into 

 consumption. 



Those of you who read some of our daily 

 papers have seen the abuse we receive 

 from Householders' Leagues about charg- 

 ing exhorbitant prices. I assure you that 

 competition is too keen in grocery staples 

 for that. These people do mot understand 

 the methods or cost of doing business, and 

 in their ignorance create all kinds of tin- 

 just prejudices against us. The service 

 demanded by the public nowadays is one 

 of the large factors in price advances. 



I'm sure you will agree with rne that 

 the retailer is a necessity in the distribu- 

 tion of fruit and vegetables if the maxi- 

 mum is to be sold in a seasom. I believe in 

 such conferences as these, and I hope that 

 there will be more of them. Thoy afford 

 us an opportunity to obtain a better un- 

 derstanding of the difficulties with which 

 each of us have to contend. 



[Note. — On the conclusion of Mr. Clark's 

 address, the fruit growers present were 

 afforded an opportunity to ask him ques- 

 tions. The growers present appeared to 

 be satisfied that Mr. Clark had made out 

 a good case for the retailer. — Editor.] 



Annual Rally of the Horticul- 

 tural Societies of Ontario 



{Continued from page 293) 

 owned by the children themselves. 



[Correction. — .\fter page 293 had gone to 

 press it was noted that the preceding few 

 remarks had been made by Mr. Hamilton, 

 of Torornto, not by Mrs. Potts. — Editor] 



Mrs. Potts, as she did last year, gave 

 another inspiring address this year, this 

 time on the subject "Home Gardens and 

 the Homemakers." "Nature," she said, 

 "is the old cure that will repair the dis- 

 locations due to the mechanical conditions 

 of life." This was the central thought of 

 her address, which was an earnest appeal 

 to women to take a more direct interest 

 in horticulture, to be homemakers both in- 

 side and out of the house as the woman 

 oinly can make a home. "Horticulture," 

 said Mrs. Potts, "broadens the interests of 

 the woman in the home, affords a pleasant 

 diversion from the regular housework, and 

 is calming to the overwrought nerves of 

 the mother." The speaker referred to the 

 influence of a live interest in horticulture 

 in making her own life more enjoyable and 

 predicted similar happy results to all others 

 who would, through horticultural study and 

 practice, come closer in touch with Mo- 

 ther Nature. 



Mr. E. T. Cook, of Toronto, in the course 

 of an excellent address, stated that homes 

 without a garden suffer in monetary value 

 as in these days a garden is becoming a 

 profitable adjunct of the home. While Can- 

 ada is to-day largely a land of farms it will 

 in time become a land of gardens. Mr. 

 Cook advocated simple planting and plenty 

 of flowers suited to the environment of the 

 home. This address also will be dealt with 

 more fully in a later issue. 



"Town and City Backyard Development" 

 was dealt with ,at length by Mr. W. S. Din- 

 nick, of Toronto, who last summer offered 

 $1,000 in prizes in a contest conducted in 

 Toronto, which proved a great success. Mr. 

 Dinnick described the successful results 

 that have attended the efforts of the Nat- 

 ional Cash Register Company, which at 

 Dayton, Ohio, transformed a slum district 

 into one of the show places of the city. In 

 Baltimore, the appearance of much of the 

 city has been transformed through the ef- 

 forts of a committee, which conducted com- 

 petitions for the best backyards, vacant lot 

 gardens, window boxes, and other similar 

 contests. The work of the Garden Club in 

 Minneapolis was dealt with, as well as work 

 conducted in Philadelphia, and last year's 

 competion in Toronto. 



Mr. Benjamin Hammond, of Beacon, N. 

 Y., was to have spoken oin "School Garden 

 and Welfare Work," but was unable to be 

 present. 



An interesting report of the Experimental 

 work conducted at the Dominion Experi- 

 ntntai Farm, Ottawa, and the best flowers 

 grown there, was given by Mr. W. T. Ma- 

 coun, the Dominion Hoiticulturist. The 

 aim of the Experimental Farm has been to 

 learn by experiment and experience what 

 are the best varieties of hardy ornamental 

 trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, and 

 the best ways of growing them. The in- 

 troduction of many species suitable for the 

 colder sections of Canada has been the re- 

 sult. Many kinds of annuals are grown 

 each year and there are large collections of 

 irises, phloxes, paeonies, cannas, galdioli, 

 geraniums, tulips, narcissi and other kinds 

 of perennial plants which are grown for 

 the purpose of learning their relative mer- 

 its. New greenhouses that have been erect- 

 ed give about 7,500 square feet of glass in 

 which to experiment with tender plants. One 

 member of the staff, Mr. F. E. Buck, de- 



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