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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



November, 1909 



The Canadian Horticulturist 



PuUbhed bjr The Horticultwral 



Publuhinff Company, Limited 



PKTKRBORO, ONTARIO 



EDITORIAL 



The Only Horticultural Magazine 



in the Dominion 



Official Organ of British Columbia, Ontario 



Quebec, New Brunswick and Pkinoe Edward 



Island Fruit Growers' Associations 



H. Bronson Cowan, Managing Director 

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



1. The Canadian HorttonlttiriBt la pabliehed on 

 the E5th day of the month preceding date of 

 iasne. 



2. Subscription price In Canada and Great Bri- 

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

 States and local enhscriptions in Peterboro, (not 

 called for at the Post OfiSce) 25 cents extra a 

 year, including postage. 



3. Bemittances should be made by Post Office 

 or Express Money Order, or Begistered Letter. 

 Postage Stamps accepted for amounts less than 

 tl.W. 



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

 dress is ordered, both the old and the new ad- 

 dresses must be given. 



5. Advertising Rates quoted on application. 

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

 vertising correspondence and copy to our Ad- 

 vertising Manager, Peterboro, Ont. 



6. Articles and Illustrations for publication 

 will be thankfully received by the editor. 



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 Hortioulturlst 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, 19U9. 9,310 



Marcli, 1909 9,405 



April, 19U9 9,482 



May, 1909 9,172 



June, 1909 8,891 



July, 1909 8,447 



August, 1909 8.570 



September, 1909 8,605 



October, 1909 8,675 



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 



Averase each issue in 1907, 6.627 



Averaffc each issue in 1908, 8,695 



(increased circulation in one year 2,068) 



Sworn detailed statements will be mailed upon 

 application. 



Our ProtectiTe Policy 



We want the readers of The Canadian Horti- 

 culturist to feel that they can deal with our 

 advertisers with our assurani." ol' 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 discontiue immediately the pub 

 iloation of their advertisements in The Horti- 

 culturist. Should the circumstances warrant, 

 we will expose them through the columns of 

 the paper. Thus, we will not only protect our 

 readers, but our reputable advertisers as well. 

 All that is necessary to entitle you to the bene- 

 fits of this Protective Policy is that you include 

 in all your letters to advertisers the words, 

 "I saw your ad. in The Canadian Hortioultur- 

 lst." Complaints should be made to na as soon 

 as possible after reason for dissatisfaction has 

 been foond. 



Oommnnicatlons should be addressed: 



THl OAHAOLUr HOETICULTTTEIBT. 



PETEBBOBO, ONTASIO. 



BRITISH COLUMBIA INSPECTION 



The horticulturists of British Columbia 

 are indignant at the manner in which they 

 are being treated by the provincial gov- 

 ernment in respect to the fumigation and 

 inspection of nursery stock. The florists 

 of Vancouver recently expressed their in- 

 dignation in vigorous terms. They claim 

 that nursery stock is wantonly destroyed 

 by the provincial inspection officers, and 

 tliat they are finding it difficult to get 

 wnolesale nurseries to ship stock to them. 

 [Stock from the United States is fumigated 

 three times before it readies the purch- 

 asers. J<umigation in itself is not objected 

 to but it is not necessary to repeat the 

 process even once, much less twice. The 

 aeiay occasioned by this nonsense also is 

 detrimental to trade and helps to damage 

 the stock. The combination of circum- 

 stances IS more than the stock can stand 

 and a large part of it dies. 



The horticulturists have a serious griev- 

 ance. "The regulations are grossly oppres- 

 sive and should be altered," said Judge 

 Jay, at Victoria, when dismissing a case 

 brought by the provincial government 

 against the Fairview-Esquimalt Nursery. 

 In the course of the hearing of this ac- 

 tion it appeared that a $500 shipment of 

 palms had been destroyed in January, in 

 May $63 worth of geraniums were not re- 

 turned for thirteen days and when they 

 did get back were all rotted and a ship- 

 ment of palms from Philadelphia met a 

 similar fate. Mr. A. W. Bridgman, of the 

 Jb'airview-Esquimalt Nursery, said that his 

 company had lost hundre'ds of dollars ow- 

 ing to the negligence of the inspectors at 

 Vancouver. These are a few of the many 

 instances that could be cited. As the 

 industry is a large one and as the demand 

 for nursery stock consta,ntly in increas- 

 ing, the British Columbia government 

 should remedy the situation at once. 



ANOTHER FAKE 



Almost every year some new fake in the 

 horticultural line, makes its appearance in 

 Canada. The variety and ingenuity of these 

 frauds is astonishing. Even more aston- 

 ishing, however, is the number of farmers 

 and fruit growers who are bitten by them. 



We have had powders, which, by being 

 injected into a tree, would be carried by 

 the sap through all the branches and re- 

 sult in phenomenal yields. Paints, that 

 would protect trees against all insect life 

 and insure large crops, have had their day. 

 Seedless apple trees that were going to 

 revolutionize the fruit growing industry 

 have appeared and disappeared. Now we 

 hear of a Northern Spy apple tree grown 

 by a new budding process, that will in- 

 sure trees coming into bearing inside of 

 three years' time. Agents who are boom- 

 ing this new discovery (?) we learn, are 

 operating in such counties as Simcoe, Grey, 

 and Dufferin, in Ontario and possibly else- 

 where. 



The Canadian Horticulturist (October 

 1908; page 222) warned farmers and fruit 

 growers against a similar fraud. Agents 

 of a Michigan firm were telling their prey 

 that their firm practised a system of graft- 

 ing that ensured superior stock in every 

 respect. Probably it is the same bunch of 

 rascals that is now operating in the coun- 



ties mentioned, but substituting a budding 

 fraud for a grafting one. No system of 

 grafting or budding can mate Spy trees 

 bear in three years. Even top-grafting, with 

 which the methods talked of by these fak- 

 irs should not be confounded, cannot make 

 Spy trees bear so early. It is well known 

 that Spy top-worked on Tolman Sweet, Pe- 

 waukee, Haas, Wallbridge, McMahon's 

 White and other hardy varieties of early 

 maturity and better root systems will come 

 into bearing sooner than when propagated 

 in the ordinary way — from seven to nine 

 years compared with twelve to fifteen 

 years. Reliable Canadian nursery con- 

 cerns offer trees top-worked on these vari- 

 eties. The United States people, above 

 mentioned, are humbugs. 



These fakirs are offering also "black 

 knot proof" cherry and plum trees. No 

 variety of these is absolutely proof against 

 this disease. Waugh says in "Plums and 

 Plum Culture" : "It occurs on all sorts of 

 plums (contrary to the statements of the 

 tree peddler.)" Certain vigorous growing 

 varieties are less liable to be affected than 

 others, but none are immune. To claim 

 that plum and cherry stock, grown any- 

 where or by any process, is "black knot 

 proof," is false. 



The agents who represent these concerns 

 are smooth talkers. They know that their 

 frauds will not be discovered by their vic- 

 tims before several years, which enables 

 them to get a portion at least of the money 

 they are after and get safely out of the 

 country before their victims discover that 

 they have been defrauded. Such fakirs op- 

 erate only once in the same locality. They 

 will appear in some other district next year. 

 Their customers have practically no means 

 of redress as no action can be taken through 

 Canadian courts without great trouble and 

 expense. Farmers and fruit growers, take 

 heed I 



AMATEUR HORTICULTURE 



In these columns last month, reference 

 was made to the apparent tendency of the 

 Ontario Horticultural Association to con- 

 fine its work and influence to flowers, lawns 

 and other ornamental factors in gardening. 

 It was suggested that fruits and vegetables 

 be given more attention than they are. We 

 have received letters approving our con- 

 tention. 



Persons who grow fruit m an amateur 

 way and for their own use, have no or- 

 ganization to look to for instruction and 

 advice other than the Ontario Horticultural 

 Association. The work and efforts of the 

 Ontario Fruit Growers' Association are 

 chiefly commercial and rightly so. It would 

 be of great benefit to our country as a 

 whole if the Ontario Horticultural Asso- 

 ciation and the local horticultural societies 

 would take up the questions of fruit and 

 vegetable culture in order to encourage and 

 assist their members in the growing of more 

 and better fruit and vegetables at home. 



PUSH FOR INCREASED GRANT 



It is absolutely essential for each horti- 

 cultural society of the province to be rep- 

 resented at the approaching convention of 

 the Ontario Horticultural Association, not 

 only for the general benefit that they will 

 derive from the addresses and discussions 

 but also in order that steps may be taken 

 to have the government grant increased. 

 Unless an increased grant is secured at 

 once, most of the societies will be hindered 

 in their work and the result will be dis- 

 astrous. 



The government must b© impressed with 

 the fact that the societies are doing a work 



