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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST November, 1908 



The Canadian Horlicullurist 



PublUhed by The HorticultHral 

 Publishing Company, Limited 



PBTBRBORO AND TORONTO 



The Only Horticultural Magazine 

 in the Dominion 



Official Groan of British Columbia, Ontario, Qub- 

 BBC, New Brunswick and Princb Edward Island 

 Fruit Growers' Associations and of the Ont- 

 ario Vegetable Growers' Association 



H. Bronson Cowan, 

 Managing Editor and Business Manager 

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

 W. G. Rook, Advertising Manager 



1. The Canadian Horticulturist is published on 

 the 26th day of the month preceding date of 

 issue. 



2. Subscription price in Canada and Great Brit- 

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

 States and local subscriptions in Peterboro, (not 

 called for at Post Office) 25 cents extra a year, 

 including postage. 



i. Remittances should be made by Post Office 

 or Money Express Order, or Registered Letter. 

 Postage Stamps accepted for amounts less than 

 .$1.00. 



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 18th. Address all ad- 

 vertising correspondence and copy to our Ad- 

 vertising Manager, 72 Queen street west, Tor- 

 onto. 



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 

 cirsulation of The Canadian Horticulturist for 

 the year ending with Dec, 1907. 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. 



Circulation Statement 



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 



January, 1907 4,947 



February. 1907 5,520 



March. 1907 6,380 



April. 1907 6,460 



May, 1907 6.620 



June, 1907 6,780 



July, 1907 6,920 



August, 1907 6.8S0 



September. 1907 7,080 



October. 1907 7.210 



November, 1907 7.257 



December, 1907 7,500 



Total for the year, 79,525 



Average each issue in 1907, 6.627 



Sworn detailed statements will be mailed upon 

 application. 



Our Protective Policy 



We want the readers of The Canadian Horti- 

 culturist to feel that they can deal with our 

 advertisers with our assurance of the advertisers' 

 reliability. We try to admit to our columns 

 only themost reliable advertisers. Should any 

 subscriber, therefore, have good cause to be 

 dissatisfled with the treatment he receives from 

 any of our advertisers, we will look into the 

 matter and ivnestigate the circumstances fully. 

 .Should we find reason, even in the slightest 

 degree, we will discontinue immediately the pub- 

 lication 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 Horticultur- 

 ist. Complaints should be made to us as soon 

 as possible after reason for dissatisfaction has 

 been found. 



Communications should be addressed: 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST, 

 Toronto Office: PETEEBOftO, ONTARIO. 



72 Qneen street wept. 



QUEEN VICTORIA PARK 



One of the beauty spot.s of Canada is 

 Queen Victoria Park at Niagara Falls. It 

 compares favorably with any park of sim- 

 ilar pretensions on the continent. All pa- 

 triotic Canadians are proud of it and well 

 they should 'be. 



The high standard of excellence to which 

 this park has been raised can be credited 

 to' the able management of the late super- 

 intendent. Mr. Jas. Wilson, and of its late 

 chief gardener, Mr. Roderick Cameron. 

 These men deserve much praise for their 

 untiring efforts in making the park what 

 it is. 



It is understood that permanent succes- 

 sors to Messrs. Wilson and Cameron have ■ 

 not yet been appointed. This is due pro- ~ 

 bably to the fact that it is extremely diffi- 

 cult to find men capable of maintaining the 

 standard of the past few years. Some of the 

 persons no<y connected with the park know 

 more about politics than about gardening 

 and landscape art. None but thoroughly 

 qualified men should be considered in the 

 appointment. 



HORTICULTURAL CONVENTION 



The annual convention of the Ontario 

 Horticultural Association will be held at 

 Toronto on November 10th and 11th. An 

 excellent program has been prepared and 

 the executive committee expects every active 

 horticultural society in the province to be 

 worthily represented at the sessions of the 

 association which is calculated to be mu- 

 tually beneficial to all. 



There will be interesting discussions on 

 the practical management of horticultural 

 societies. Measures will be submitted, show- 

 ing the necessity of an increased legislative 

 grant to our horticultural societies, if they 

 are to maintain their present ratio of pro- 

 gress. Reports will be presented giving the 

 original results of experiments in the cul- 

 ture of fruits and flowers. The important 

 work of civic improvement and the beauti- 

 fying of home surroundings will be dis- 

 cussed and illustrated. Every suggestion 

 that is contributed to advance the interests 

 of the societies and thereby enhance the 

 wealth and the beauty of the province will 

 be gladly welcomed for the benefit of all 

 the people. Steps will be taken to promote 

 combination among horticulturists and t^eir 

 co-operation with the municipal and provin- 

 cial authorities in extending their influence 

 for good throughout the country. 



It is hoped that no society receiving a leg- 

 islative grant will be so dead to its respon- 

 sibilities and opportunities as to fail to send 

 a delegate to this auxiliary alliance of horti- 

 cultural societies, whose annual meeting in- 

 augurates a great forward movement in the 

 noble work of education and extension in 

 which they are engaged. The success of 

 this convention means greater usefulness 

 for our societies and greater love for and 

 pride in our homes and our country. 



THE COMING CONFERENCE 



Fruit growers in all parts of Canada 

 should now be preparing for the Dominion 

 Fruit Conference promised for the winter or 

 spring of 1909. The need for conferences of 

 this kind is felt by fruit men everywhere 

 and has been pointed out in these columns 

 many times. Many letters from men prom- 

 inently Connected with the industry were pub- 

 lished last year. It was then confidently 

 expected that the Hon. Sydney Fisher would 

 call a third conference last spring, similar 



to the excellent and important one held in 

 Ottawa in March 1906. While the minister 

 had made no definite promise in respect to 

 the date for same, the delegates to the 1S,06 

 conference gathered the impression that they 

 might expect another in 1908. It did not 

 come off. A live-stock conference was to be 

 held and, according to the ministi r, this 

 would interfere with the holding of a fruit 

 conference; in other words, two agricultural 

 conferences cannot be held in Ottawa during 

 the same year. The fruit growers did not 

 complain. They accepted the decision and 

 waited. 



We are now rapidly approaching the time 

 for the holding of the third conference. At 

 all conventions of local fruit growers' as- 

 sociations the matter should be di.scussed. 

 Questions of national importance shou'.d be 

 decided on for discussion. Among them we 

 would suggest an enquiry into the working- 

 out of The Cold Storage Act as it affects the 

 fruit industry. Scores of subjects equally 

 important require attention. Readers of 

 The Canadian Horticulturist are invite;! 

 to send suggestions for publication. Let us 

 all get together and plan together for the 

 Dominion Fruit Conference in 1809. 



In our issue for November last year, we 

 referred editorially to the pilfering or petty 

 stealing in orchards to which fruit growers 

 are subjected. The practice is not confined 

 to the country. It is followed even more in 

 our towns and cities. Freeholders and 

 householders in urban municipalities are" 

 constantly occasioned much annoyance and 

 loss. Boys are the most troublesome. They 

 locate the trees early in the season (many 

 of them have known the best trees for years) 

 and when the fruit is ripe, and often 

 times before, they make wholesale raids. 

 The remedy is in the hands of the owners 

 and of the police. One prosecution, with 

 possi'bly a brief term in jail as the penalty, 

 if well advertised in the press, would do 

 much to make the boys realize that stealing 

 fruit is as great a crime as stealing money. 



The progress of two of Ontario's largest 

 and most active horticultural societies — 

 namely, Ottawa and St. Catharines— is due 

 in a large measure to the publicity givr'n 

 them by one or more newspapers in those 

 cities. The success of any society depend; 

 to a great extent upon co-operation with its 

 local press. There are many other horti- 

 cultural societies in Ontario that would be 

 better off if they could get their newspaper.s 

 interested. How about Toronto for instance.' 



The drawing features of conventions are 

 the papers and addresses that are read and 

 delivered and the discussions that usually 

 result. The paper and its discussion are 

 equally important; in many cases, the dis- 

 cussion that the paper incites is the more 

 valuable of the two. As the season of con- 

 ventions is near at hand, it would be well 

 for speakers to remember that it is not al- 

 ways the lengthy paper or address that is 

 the most valuable. In the time allotted, 

 the reading of the paper should not occupy 

 more than half. It furnishes the subject for 

 discussion and is, therefore, in effect, an in- 

 troduction to the debate. Quality in an ad- 

 dress is the first consideration. Oftentimes 

 the quality is not as apparent as it should 

 be until brought out by an analytical dis- 

 cussion. 



I enjoy The Canadian Horticulturist 

 very much, and I think that the people in 

 the United States have something to learn 

 in the way of putting out a practical maga- 

 zine of that sort. — W. W. Bassett, Monti 

 cello. Fla. 



