January, 1915 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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burne, and Yarmouth. One inspector was 

 assiK'ned to this section where there was 

 quite an amount of educational work to be 

 donf. 



The inspectors at Halifax looked after 

 the local market and were at the dock when 

 steamers were being loaded with fruit for 

 exptrt. If a car happened to escape the 

 outside inspectors in the orchards, or if 

 they had "reason to believe that certain 

 brands which they had not seen required 

 attention, they notified the Halifax inspec- 

 tors, giving the car number, and when it 

 arrived at the ship's side it was inspected 

 before going on board. 



Clean Packages Essential 



E. H. Wvtman, Montreal, Que. 



It is too common a sight yet at the port 

 of Montreal to see barrels of apples com- 

 ing from cars that have been in the coal 

 trade, and later used unswept to receive 

 apples. Imagine how they look coming 

 from such cars on a wet day, rolled on 

 floors of sheds that have accumulated stick\ 

 din. In addition to this, many are sten- 

 cilled iin a way that appears to be merely a 

 daub. One cannot help remarking what a 

 dirty package these are for anyone to pre- 

 sent to the trade on the other side of the 

 Atlantic. Although the fruit may be clean 

 anc of good quality, one looks on a pack- 

 age of this kind with suspicion. It would 

 be (juite a task to make these packages 

 look presentable for a high-class trade ; in 

 fact, this trade would go by such packages, 

 and those who buy them would expect them 

 to {.btain them at bargain prices, which the 

 shipper cannot afford to take. 



Fruit inspectors and cargo men are al- 

 wa\s on the alert to give advice to heads 

 of steamship sheds to keep packages clean 

 that arrive clean. I do not want to infer 

 that much of this class of package arrives, 

 but it is still in evidence. A few barrels in 

 som«' shipments loot as if they had lain in 

 •orchards in wet weather for some time. 

 Tht evidence consists of part of the farm, 

 in the form of mud, .«t.ill sticking to the 

 barrels. Vou will always find barrels of 

 frun exposed in this way will absorb mois- 

 ture on the fruit that will cause fungi 

 iH'tws to develop before the fruit becomes 

 dry enough to resist. A word to the wise 

 IS '■efficient 



A Town Planning Adviser 



The work of "Town Planning" has pro- 

 gressed rapidly in Canada. Several of the 

 provinces have adopted legislation which 

 makes it possible for municipalities to do 

 -omething, while from one end of the Do- 

 minion to the other there is ample evidence 

 to show that the people are alive to the fact 

 that our towns and cities can and should be 

 planned upon better lines. 



At the International Town Planning 

 Confereaice held in Toronto in May last 

 the Canadian delegates met and passed the 

 following resolution: "That this represen- 

 tative gathering of Canadian delegates at 

 the International City Planning Congress 

 held in the Convocation Hall of Toronto 

 I niversity on Wednesday, May 27th 1914 

 desires strongly to pray the Commission of 

 Conservation, in view of the very practical 

 cooperation and interest in the aims and 

 obKcts of the present International Citv 

 l^lanning Conference happilv promoted by 

 It, to further continue its good work by 

 the creation of a special Bureau of Citv 

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 the activities of the Commission of Con- 

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