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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



October, 1909 



The Canadian Horticulturist 



Publuhcd br The Horticultiiral 



Publuhins Company, Limited 



PKTKRHOHO, OiSTTA-RIO 



The Only Horticultural Magazine 



in the Dominion 



Official Organ ok British Colcmbia, Ontario 



QUBBEC, New Brunswick and Prince Edward 



Island Fruit Growers' Associations 



H. Bronson Cowan, Managing Director 

 A. B. Cutting, B.S.A., Editor 



1. The Canadian Horticulturist Is published on 

 the 25th day of the month preceding date of 

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CIRCULATION STATEMENT. 



Since the subscription price of The Canadian 

 Horticulturist was reduced from $1.00 to 60 cents 

 a year, the circulation has grown rapidly. The 

 following is a sworn statement of the net paid 

 circulation of The Canadian Horticulturist for 

 the year ending with Dec, 1908. The figures giv- 

 en are exclusive of samples and spoiled copies, 

 and of papers sent to advertisers. Some months, 

 including the sample copies, from 10.000 to 12.000 

 copies of The Canadian Horticulturist are mailed 

 to people known to be interested in the grow- 

 ing of fruit, flowers or vegetables. 



January, 1909 9,456 



February, 1909. 9,310 



March, 1909 9,405 



April, 1909 9,482 



M^y, 1909 9,172 



June, 1909 8,891 



July, 190!) 8,447 



August. 1909 8.570 



September, 1909 8,605 



January, 1908 7,650 



February, 1908 7,824 



March. 1908 8,056 



April, 1908 8,250 



May, 1908 8,573 



June, 1908 8,840 



July, 1908 9,015 



August, 1908 9,070 



September, 1908 9,121 



October, 1908 9,215 



November, 1908 9,323 



December. 1908 9,400 



Total for the year .104,337 



Average each iuue in 1907, 6,627 



Average each issue in 1908. 8.695 



(Increased circulation in one year 2.068) 



Sworn detailed statements will be mailed upon 

 application. 



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 culturist to feel that they can deal with our 

 advertisers with our assuraui.^ ot the advertisers' 

 reliability. We try to admit to ou." columns 

 only the most reliable advertisers. Should any 

 subscriber, therefore, have good cause to be 

 dissatisfied with the treatment he receives from 

 any of our advertisers, we will look into the 

 matter and investigate the circumstances fully. 

 Should we find reason, even in the slightest 

 degree, we will dlscontiue immediately the pub 

 lication of their advertisements in The Horti- 

 culturist. Should the circumstances warrant, 

 we will expose them through the columns of 

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 ist." Complaints should be made to us as soon 

 as possible after reason for dissatisfaction has 

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Communications should be addressed: 

 THE CANADIAN HOETIOULTTJRIST. 



PETBEBOEO. ONTAEIO. 



FRUIT AT CANADIAN NATIONAL 



There is still room for an improvement in 

 the fruit department at the Canadian Na- 

 tional Exhibition. No exhibition in Canada 

 affords greater opportunity for advertising 

 the great fruit industry of Ontario and its 

 possibilities. While thousands and perhaps 

 tens of thousands of people may visit other 

 exhibitions, hundreds of thousands, repre- 

 senting nearly all countries of the world, 

 visit the Canadian National. In view of 

 this fact, the fruit show is utterly inade- 

 quate, not in excellence of the specimens 

 shown, but in extent and in the method of 

 display. There is little that is attractive 

 about it. The general public is impressed, 

 favorably or unfavorably, by the effect of 

 the display as a whole, not by the quality 

 of the individual fruits. Something should 

 be done to make the fruit show an outstand- 

 ing feature. 



We would suggest that the co-operative 

 fruit growers' associations of the province be 

 asked to make display exhibits of fruits 

 packed in boxes. The Exhibition can well 

 afford to offer libcjal inducements for them 

 to do so. These exhibits could be placed 

 uniformly on a sloping staf4,e, made to ac- 

 commodate four boxes in height, and built 

 all around the fruit wing of the horticul- 

 tural building. A grand display of this 

 kind would greatly impress the visiting 

 masses and would prove a world-wide ad- 

 vertisement of Ontario's fruit industry. 



HOME FRUIT CULTURE 



In its desire to develop the love for and 

 the interest in the ornamental features of 

 home gardening, the Ontario Horticultural 

 Association should not let its interest wane 

 in fruits and vegetables. Much good work 

 can he done by this association in encourag- 

 aging the culture of fruits and vegetables 

 by amateurs. The name of the association 

 implies all of these things but there is a 

 tendency on its part to confine its work and 

 influence only to the ornamental. 



There is a satisfaction in growing fruits 

 not only for what they may bring or save 

 in money, but simply because they are 

 fruits. 'The commercial fruit grower is al- 

 lowing business to supplant this. Senti- 

 ment in fruit culture is a legacy that is 

 gradually being left by commercialism to 

 the amateur. The growing of fruits for the 

 love of them is rapidly becoming a thing of 

 the past. This was pointed out in an able 

 address by Dr. L. H. Bailey at the recent 

 conference of the American Pomological 

 Society that was held at St. Catharines, 

 Ontario. Dr. Bailey deplored the growing 

 lack of sentiiuent and of real horticultural 

 spirit in the fruit grower. The point was 

 well taken but the commercial fruit grower 

 of to-day considers dollars more than senti- 

 ment. It is left to the amateur, who grows 

 things not for profit but for pleasure, to 

 hold what may be lost. 



Every home garden should have a place 

 for the growing of one or more kinds rf 

 fruits. One reason why fruits are not 

 planted more often by amateur horticul- 

 turists is because their culture is not known 

 by many of these persons. It is within the 

 province of our amatevir horticultural or- 

 ganizations to teach them. The Ontari.i 

 Horticultural Association should not neglect 

 this phase of its work. It should continue 

 the interest in home fruit growing that was 

 promoted by the Ontario Fruit Growers' 



Association until the amateurs formed th( 

 afore-mentioned organization for themselves. 

 A part of the programme for the November 

 convention could profitably be given to the 

 consideration of topics that deal with fruits 

 and vegetables. Let the good work embrace 

 not only the strictly aesthetic but also those 

 features of gardening that are equally use- 

 ful, and sometimes more appreciated. 



J 



VENTILATED APPLE BARRELS 



The lesson learned last season from thi 

 disastrous results that followed the shipp 

 of apples that were packed in the extreme- 

 ly hot weather, has caused a number of On- 

 tario shippers this year to use ventilatr-' 

 barrels for summer and fall varieties. 'I 

 fact that it has been shown by experinii : 

 that it takes between six and seven days to 

 cool to the centre of a barrel of apples 

 packed in warm condition in air tight bar- 

 rels, shows the uselessness of expecting mucl) 

 benefit from using refrigerator cars between 

 points in Ontario and Montreal. Ventilated 

 packages should go hand in hand with re- 

 frigeration unless the fruit has been cooled 

 before being loaded. 



The ventilation should be in the sides 

 of the barrels, not in the ends. Holes bored 

 in the staves, will answer the purpose, if the 

 holes are not too large, but thev make the 

 barrel appear unsightly. The better plan 

 is to make small slits on the edges of the 

 staves, say, four in a stave and in every 

 fourth stave, making sixteen openings in a 

 barrel. This can be done by using a two- 

 inch gouge before the barrels are made. 

 As the demand for the ventilated barrels in- 

 creases, this work could be done by machin- 

 ery when the staves are being manufactur- 

 ed. 



Thousands of barrels of Canadian apples 

 shipped to Europe last season did not re- 

 turn to the shippers a penny a barrel 

 through the heating of the fruit picked and 

 packed in warm weather. Much of this 

 loss would have been prevented had ventilat- 

 ed barrels been used. 



The visit of the American Pomological 

 Society to Canada was an event of more 

 than ordinary importance. The papers read 

 and discussed at the meetings, the excur- 

 sions throughout the Niagara district and 

 to Guelph, and the inspection of the great 

 horticultural exhibition held at St. Cath- 

 arines, will restdt in much good to our fruit 

 industry and to our cotintry. WTiile the ex- 

 .cursions and exhibition were chiefly "Ni- 

 agara district" in character, we believe that 

 all Canada will be benefitted by the good 

 things that the members of the society had 

 to say about us and which they probably 

 will tell to others. Canada was honored by 

 the society in making St. Catharines its 

 njeeting place for 1909. 



The action of the directors of the Ontario 

 Horticultural Association in deciding by re- 

 solution at a recent meeting to ask the pro- 

 vincial government to increase the grant to 

 horticultural societies by $5,000, is com- 

 mendable. As stated editorially in our last 

 issue, the jirogress of horticultural society 

 work demands an increase in the grant at 

 once. While the passing of a resolution to 

 this effect by the directors should help ma- 

 terially to secure the increase, the agitation i 

 should not stop there. Each local society 

 should exert itself in the matter. They 

 should impress the need upon their local 

 members of the legislature and ask them to 

 use their influence in having the necessary 

 sum voted at the next session. 



The fruit division at Ottawa deserves the 

 thanks of fruit growers in Ontario and 

 eastwards for occasionally' bringing expertfi 



