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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



March, 191=; 



The Canadian Horticulturist 



COMBINKI) WITH 



THE CANADIAN HOfiTICULTURIST 

 AND BEEKEEPER 



with which hn» been Incorporated 



The Canadian Bee Journal. 



Published by The Horticultural 



Publishing Company. Limited. 



PKTBRBORO, ONTARIO 



H. Bronson Cowan Managing Director 



The Only Magazines in Their Field in the 



Dominion 



Official Oboans of thr Ontario and Quebbo 



Froit Growers' Associations 



AND of Thic Ontario and Nkw Brunswick 



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1. The Oanadiaji HorticuIturiBt Is published in 

 three editions on the 25th day of the month pre- 

 ceding date of issue. The first edition is known 

 aa the fruit edition, and is devoted chiefly to 

 the commercial fruit interests: The second 

 edition is Isnown as the floral edition, and is 

 devoted chiefly to the interests of amateur 

 flower, fruit and vegetable growers. The third 

 edition is known as The Canadian Horticulturist 

 and Beekeeper. In this edition several pages of 

 matter appearing in the first and second issues 

 are replaced by an eaual number of pages of 

 matter relating to the beekeeping interests of 

 Canada 



2. Subscription price of The Canadian Horti- 

 culturist in Canada and Great Britain, $1.00 a 

 year; three years for $2.00, and of The Canadian 

 Horticulturist and Beekeeper. $1.00 a year. For 

 United States and local subscriptions in Peter- 

 boro (not called for at the Post Office). 25 oenta 

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 are held responsible until all arrearages are 

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

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 ceived up to the 20tli. Address all advertising 

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CIRCULATION STATEMENT 



The following is a sworn statement of the net 

 paid circulation of The Canadian Horticulturist 

 for the year ending with December 1914. The 

 figures given are exclusive of samples and spoiled 

 copies. Most months, including the sample cop- 

 ies, from 13.000 to 15.000 copies of The Canadian 

 Horticulturist are mailed to people known to be 

 Interested in the growing of fruits, flowers or 

 vegetables. 



January, 1914 ....12,966 August, 1914 11,905 



February, 1914 ...12.98J September. 1914 ..11.610 



March, 1914 12,960 October, 1914 11,622 



April. 1914 13,362 November, 1914 ...11.532 



May, 1914 13.284 December, 1914 ...11,545 



June, 1914 13,073 



July, 1914 11.871 Total 148,713 



Avera);e each Issue In 1907. (i,627 

 Average each issue In 1914. 12,393 



Sworn detailed statements will be mailed 

 upon application 



OUR GUARANTEE 



We guarantee that every advertiser in this Issue 

 ie reliable. We are able to do this because the 

 advertising columns of The Canadian Hortioul- 

 turi.st are as carefully edited as the reading 

 columns, and because to protect our readers we 

 turn away all unscrupulous advertisers. Should 

 any advertiser herein deal dishonestly with any - 

 subscriber, we will make good the amount of 

 his lose, provided such transaction occurs within 

 one month from date of this issue, that it is 

 reported to us within a week of its occurrence, 

 and that we find the facts to be as stated. It 

 is a condition of this contract that In writing to 

 advertisers you state: "I saw your advertisement 

 in The Canadian Horticulturist." 



Rogues shall not ply their trade at the expense 

 of our subscribers, who are our friends, through 

 the medium of these columns: but we shall not 

 attempt to ad.lust trifling disputes between sub- 

 Hcrihorg and honourable business men who ad- 

 vertiRe, nor pay the debts of honest bankrupts. 



Oommnniocltions should be addressed 

 THE CANADIAN HORTTOTTLTURieT. 



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EDITORIAL 



THE QUESTION OF RATES 



Fruit jfrowers are justified in opposing 

 vigorously the proposed advance in freight 

 rates to be applied in eastern Camada. These 

 are times when the increased cost of living 

 has reached serious proportions. Such an 

 advance as is proposed would affect every 

 producer and every consumer. While lack 

 of traffic, due in part to the war, is one of 

 the reasons given for the increase, the pub- 

 lic is well aware that when business im- 

 proves there would be no reduct'ion in 

 rates. Fruit growers desire to be fair 

 to the railways. They realize that the cost 

 of operation has increased of recent years. 

 They realize, also, that when railways such 

 as the C.P.R., periodically cut "mellons" 

 worth millions of dollars for the benefit of 

 their shareholders, the public should not 

 be expected to foot the bill when hard times 

 threaten to reduce profits. 



The service furnished by the railways, is 

 most unsatisfactory to shippers, and en- 

 tails heavy losses to shippers each year. 

 Canadian Pacific Railway officials say that 

 it is ridiculous to ask for a speed of ten 

 miles an hour for freight delivery ; yet we 

 find railway companies are penalized in Vir- 

 ginia, Georgia. Florida, Mississippi, North 

 Carolina and North Dakota, if freight is 

 not lifted within twenty-four hours, and 

 carried at a rate of from twenty-five miles 

 a day to twenty miles an hour. The run 

 between New Orleans and Chicago with 

 fruit and vegetable shipments is made in 

 fiftv-five hours, a distance of nine hundred 

 and twenty-two miles, or an average speed 

 of sixteen miles an hour, imcluding stops. 

 For banana trains the schedule between 

 these points is forty-seven hours and thirtv 

 minutes, an average of twenty miles an 

 hour. Fruit trains from Southern Illinois 

 are run from Centralia, 111., to Chicago, 

 two hundred and fifty-two miles, in tem 

 hours and five minutes, about twenty-five 

 miles an hour, and this service has been 

 in effect since 1901, In the districts com- 

 prising Delaware and the eastern shores 

 of Maryland and Virginia, which ship nine- 

 ty per cent, of its production north of Phila- 

 delphia, fruit growers have the accommo- 

 dation of specially constructed cars for 

 fruit, and a freight service almost on pas- 

 senger schedule. From Wilmington, N.C., 

 to New York, fruit trains average better 

 than sixteen miles an hour. Florida, like 

 other southern states, is provided with a 

 special fast freight service for the trans- 

 nortation of fruit, trains making the run 

 from Jacksonville to New York, including 

 stops at a rate of over seventeen miles an 

 hour. .All through the different fruit pro- 

 ducing states a similar service is provided. 

 From the Jacksonville, Palestine and Tyler 

 districts in Texas, to New York, a service 

 is given of fifteen hundred and twenty- 

 three miles in five days, and sixth morning 

 deliveries of peaches and cantaloupes are 

 made in Montreal. It is thirtv-two hun- 

 dred miles from Southern 'California to 

 New York, and for this distance a service 

 of thirteen miles an hour is provided. 



Oregon, Washington and Idaho, competi- 

 tive States with Canadian producers in 

 Western Canada, with an apple orchard area 

 of 435,000 acres, also have a special schedule 

 during the heavy movement, and in some 

 cases carload fruit shipments are handled 



on passenger trains. This advantage, 

 coupled with the blanket rate under which 

 these latter states cover the western mar- 

 ket west of Winnipeg, at from eighty cents 

 to one dollar and twelve and a half cents 

 on soft fruits, and from sixty-five to eighty- 

 five cents on apples, makes this question 

 of improved service in transit of vital im- 

 portance. When our railway companies 

 make an adequate improvement in their 

 service, they may be justified in asking 

 for an advance in rates, but not before. 



THE SOCIETIES' OPPORTUNITY 



The horticultural societies of Ontario 

 have an exceptional opportunity this year to 

 encourage gardening on vacant city lots. 

 Conditions created by the war have pinch- 

 ed many families. Thousands of people 

 who never did so before are thinking of 

 starting gardens in which it will be pos- 

 sible for them to produce at least enough 

 vegetables for their household needs. Hor- 

 ticultural societies who recognize this con- 

 dition arrange their option lists accordijngly 

 and let it be known that they are prepared 

 to assist these would-be gardeners, by the 

 providing of suitable literature, and in 

 other similar ways should meet with a 

 hearty response on the part of the public. 



Speaking on this point recently. Dr. C. 

 C. James, Agricultural Commissioner for 

 Canada, made some remarks, to which 

 many of us should pay heed, when he said : 

 "This task of increasing production is not 

 limited to the farmers. There is a task 

 laid upon towns and cities. These have 

 been growini^ and expanding, extending- 

 their boundaries, until to-day there must be 

 at least one hundred thousand acres lying 

 idle, unproductive, but cultivatable, in our 

 towns and cities. Living nearby are tens 

 of thousands out of work. Schemes have 

 been suggested of taking the landless men 

 out to the manless lands to grow wheat. 

 That would probably cost two dollars to 

 grow one dollar's worth of wheat. It would 

 not be economical, but a waste of men and 

 money. Why take these men in thousands 

 to the land to grow crops about which they 

 know nothing when right at their doors are 

 vacant lands that will produce food ? Surely 

 the cities can secure the use of this vacant 

 land, and set some of the unemployed at 

 work growing potatoes and other vege- 

 tables, crops that require labor all through 

 the summer. Under proper supervision 

 men with little or no farming experience 

 can be used to produce food of this kind. 

 It seems so easy now to organize commit- 

 tees for relief work abroad. Why not turn 

 some of this organizing energy and en- 

 thusiasm into relief at home along these 

 lines. Committees of this kind should 

 have people of experience on them." There 

 is no organization so favorably situated to 

 undertake this work as our horticultural 

 societies . 



The Late Robert Thompson 



The universal expressions of regret that 

 have been placed on record in the leading 

 fruit districts of Canada in reference to the 

 death of the late Robert Thompson, .bear 

 eloquent testimony to his worth as a man as 

 well as to the value of his services to the 

 Dominion. Few men have the qualities of 

 energy, perseverance, courage and capacity 

 for public service, as well as the ability to 

 make and hold friends, to the extent enjoy- 

 ed by the late Mr. Thompson. 



Years ago, when the Niagara District, 

 more particularly the St. Catharines section. 



