March, 191 5 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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GLADIOLUS 



GROWN IN CANADA 



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We are offering: a variety said to be the 

 most beautiful of all g-Jadioli. 



H. P. VAN WAGNER 



H.K. No. 5 Hamilton, Ont. 



Gardening 

 for Pleasure 

 and Profit 



deni£tnds careful selection 

 of seed, for unless you plant 

 the very best seeds you are 

 partially wasting your soil 

 and fertilizer, as well as your 

 time and labor. The safe 

 selection is 



Ewings 



Reliable Seeds 



— the favorites throughout 

 Canada for over Forty Years. 

 Market and amateur garden- 

 ers alike prefer Ewing'sSeeds 

 because they show a very 

 high percentage of germin- 

 ation,and produce uniformly 

 vigorous plants of the 

 choicest strains. 



If you have any place at all 

 for it, be sure to put in a 

 garden this spring — and be 

 sure, too, that you plant the 

 right seeds — Ewing's. Write 

 for our Illustrated Catalogue 

 and if your dealer hasn't our 

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Seed Merchants 



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This does not mean that the middlemen 

 will be boycotted. They will still have 

 their legitimate field in which to cooperate. 

 It simply means that more fruit, much more 

 fmit, will be consumed. The threatening 

 danger of over-prodnction will be lessened. 

 People will be able to buy apples who have 

 hitherto regarded them as a luxury beyond 

 their reach. Others will benefit who have 

 been securing their supply of fruit from 

 hucksters and pedlars at fifteen cents a 

 gallon in small quantities, which is at least 

 three dollars a barrel. Some of these ped- 

 lars, it is true, may be put out of business. 

 But what of that The cities would be bet- 

 ter off without them, and the consumers 

 to whom they cater will get equally good 

 fruit for half the price. 



Last fall there was a great deal of fruit 

 which went to waste, particularly in west- 

 ern Ontario. This was because the de- 

 mand was largely lessened, the export mar- 

 ket for early and fall varieties was cut off, 

 and there were few itinerant buyers in the 

 field. Be the seasons what they may, fruit 

 was never harvested in some orchards and 

 was frozen on the tree 



Realizing the situation, the city council 

 of Ottawa tried an experiment with apples 

 shipped in bulk, to supply the poorer 

 classes in that city. Two cars of mixed 

 varieties — Baldwins, Russets, Greenings, 

 and Spies- — were brought into Ottawa. The 

 fruit was of good quality, tree run, arrived 

 at destination in first-class condition, and 

 was delivered at the doors of the consumers 

 im bags at $1.30 for 140 pounds, which is 

 equal to the contents of one barrel. So 

 great was the demand for this class of fruit 

 that a single advertfsement in the Ottawa 

 papers was sufficient to sell a car, and one 

 enthusiast went so far as to say that fifty 

 cars could have been sold in a similar way 

 in Ottawa alone. 



In every large town and city there are 

 public institutions, charitable organizations 

 whose duty it is to look after the needs of 

 the people. Through them much good can 

 be done, if someone will take the initiative 

 and point out to these bodies the bemefits 

 of such a scheme. Or, as perhaps a better 

 alternative, it would be feasible for the 

 cooperative associations at the producers' 

 end to have representatives in certain cities 

 to supervise the distribution of their crop. 

 At any rate, we in Ottawa are satisfied with 

 what the city council has done, those in the 

 council who organized the work are satis- 

 fied, and certainly those who were fortun- 

 ate enough to secure some of the fruit are 

 satisfied. 



Last fall was an exceptional season, and 

 had apples not been shipped in bulk they 

 would probably never have been shipped 

 at all. Still the principle is right, as if 

 you can sell apples direct to the consumer 

 in bulk you can sell them in other ways 

 without going through all the ordinary 

 channels of commercial marketing. What 

 can be done with loose fruit can be done 

 with barrels, with boxes, with cartons, or 

 with what you will. The additional cost 

 will be the cost of packing and packages, 

 and nothing more 



If the whole fruit industry attempts to 

 market direct to the consumer, if a demand 

 is created in the cities and towns for cheap 

 apples, if all these efforts are made to 

 lessen the price of fruit, some may ask 

 where is the producer's profit, where the 

 need for cooperative fruit growers' associ- 

 ations, where the necessitv for careful grad- 

 ing and pracking? What I have briefly sug- 

 gested snould in no way interfere with thv, 

 good work which is being done along coop- 

 erative lines. The growers must still cater 

 to the needs of the better classes in our own 



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