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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



Floral Edition. 



The Canadian Horticulturist 



COMBINED WITH 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 

 AND BEEKEEPER 



with which h.Ts been Incorporated 



The Canadian Bee Journal. 



Published by The Horticultural 



Publishing Company, Limited, 



PETERBORO, ONTARIO 



H. BRONSON COWAN, Managing Director. 



The Only Magazines In Their Field In the 

 Dominion 

 Offlcial Organs of the Ontario and 

 Quebec Fruit Growers' Associations 

 and of the Ontario, Manitoba and 

 New Brunswick Beekeepers' Associ- 

 ations. 



REPRESENTATIVES 



UNITED STATES 

 STOCKWELL'S SPECIAL, AGENCY. 

 Chicago Office — People's Gas Building. 

 New York Office— Tribune Building. 



GREAT BRITAIN 

 W. A. Mountstephen, 16 Regent St., London, 8.W. 



1. The Canadian Horticulturist is published in 

 three editions on the 25th day of the month 

 preceding date of Issue. The first edition is 

 known as the fruit edition, and is devoted 

 chiefly to the commercial fruit Interests. The 

 second edition is known as the floral edition, 

 and Is devoted chiefly to the interests of ama- 

 teur flower, fruit and vegetable growers. The 

 third edition is known as The Canadian Horti- 

 culturist and Beekeeper. In this edition several 

 pages of matter appearing in the first and 

 second issues are replaced by an equal 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 J2.00, and of The Cana- 

 dian Horticulturist and Beekeeper. $1.00 a year. 

 For United States and local subscriptions In 

 Peterboro (not called for at the Post Ofl[lce), 

 25 cents extra a year, including postage. 



3. Remittances should be made by Post Office 

 or Express Money Order, or Registered Letter. 



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, $1.40 an inch. Copy re- 

 ceived up to the 20th. Address all advertising 

 correspondence and copy to our Advertising 

 Manager, Peterboro, Ont. 



CIRCULATION STATEMENT 

 The following is a sworn statement of the net 

 paid circulation of The Canadian Horticulturi.st 

 for the year ending with December 1914. The 

 figures given are exclusive of samples and 

 spoiled copies. Most months. Including the 

 sample copies, from 11,000 to 13,000 copies of 

 The Canadian Horticulturist are mailed to peo- 

 ple known to be interested in the growing of 

 fruits, flowers or vegetables. 



January, 1914 ...11,570 August, 1914 12,675 



February, 1914 ..11,550 September, 1914 .13,729 



March, 1914 11,209 October, 1914 ...13 778 



April, 1914 11,970 November. 1914 .12,967 



May, 1914 12,368 December, 1914 .13,233 



June, 1914 12,618 ' 



July. 1914 12,626 Total 150,293 



Average each Issue In 1907 6,627 



Average each issue In 1914 12,524 



Sworn detailed statements will be mailed upon 

 application. 



OUR GUARANTEE 



We guarantee that every advertiser In this 

 Issue Is reliable. We are able to do this because 

 the advertising columns of The Canadian Horti- 

 culturist 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 loss, 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 advertise- 

 ment in The Canadian Horticulturist." 



Rogues shall not apply their trade at the ex- 

 ?h^,f^ ^'.2"'" subscribers, who are our friends, 

 through the medium of these columns; but we 

 shall not attempt to adjust trifling disputes be- 

 tween subscribers and honorable business men 

 bankrupts. "°'' "^^ '"^ "*®'"^ °' *"'"^st 



Communications should be addressed 

 THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



PETERBORO. ONT. 



Ontario's Turn to Move. 



Ontario was the first province to intro- 

 duce co-operative methods on any consider- 

 able scale in the marketing of Its fruit. In 

 the St. Catharines Cold Storage and For- 

 warding Co. it also possesses the largest 

 local shipping unit in the Dominion. In 

 addition, the province has a large number 

 of successful local fruit growers* associa- 

 tions. This speaks well for old Ontario. 

 The time has come, however, when the fruil 

 growers of the province should make a fur- 

 ther forward step. 



While there is a central association in 

 Ontario, which represents a number of the 

 local apple growers' associations, it is In 

 no sense representative of the apple grow- 

 ing interests of the province. Each year, 

 for several years, the need for a better un- 

 derstanding among the local co-operative 

 associations has become more apparent. Of 

 late years it has not been uncommon for 

 several salesmen, representing Ontario as- 

 sociations, to meet and compete with one 

 another among the buyers on the western 

 markets, with unsatisfactory results to the 

 associations they represent. Last year this 

 condition was so prevalent as to cause gen- 

 eral comment. 



There are natural difficulties in the way 

 of the formation of a strong central as'so- 

 ciation in Ontario which cannot be easily 

 overcome. The apple growing sections fol- 

 low closely the shore lines of the Great 

 Lakes in the older portion of the province, 

 and therefore are so scattered as to impose 

 a considerable handicap on united work. 

 Nevertheless, these difficulties can be over- 

 come. A meeting of representatives of the 

 different shipping associations should be 

 called at as early a date as possible with 

 the object of bringing about more effective 

 co-operation. Some idea of the advantages 

 that might result from such a move may 

 be obtained from the article in this issue 

 of The Canadian Horticulturist describing 

 how the apple growers of Nova Scotia now 

 market their crops. 



The Vacant Lot Nuisance. 



There is not a city or town of any con- 

 siderable size in the Dominion that is not 

 bothered with the vacant lot nuisance. 

 Again and again efforts at civic beautiflca- 

 tion have been thwarted by the presence 

 of considerable areas of unused land which 

 have persisted in producing luxuriant crops 

 of weeds, tin cans and other debris in the 

 midst of the areas intended for improve- 

 ment. In the city of Toronto alone there 

 are over two thousand acres of vacant land. 

 So serious has this problem become it is 

 beginning to receive the attention of the 

 Commission of Conservation at Ottawa. In 

 a recent bulletin the commission has urged 

 municipalities to deal with this matter, and 

 where by-laws exist requiring the cutting 

 of weeds to see that such by-laws are rigidly 

 enforced. Some municipalities have made 

 progress this year by utilizing portions of 

 this land for vegetable growing purposes. 

 Little more than the surface of the ques- 

 tion, however, has been touched in this way. 



In most cases this land lies idle because 

 the owners of it expect to reap benefit from 

 increasing land values. In western Canada 

 laws have been passed making it possible. 



where land is held out of use in this way, 

 to increase the taxes on such unused land. 

 Laws of this kind should be encouraged. 

 Men now owning this land, who do not in- 

 tend to use it themselves, but who hold it 

 at prices that are just beyond the reach of 

 many others who would like to put it to 

 profitable use, would find it necessary then 

 to either put it to use or to place it on the 

 market at a price within the reach of would- 

 be users. These are limes when we need 

 to use all our resources, and not the least 

 of these in every municipality is the unused 

 land that too often is a civic disfigurement. 



A Middleman Reaction. 



At every conference of fruit growers and 

 consumers the middleman comes in for con- 

 siderable attention. He generally receives 

 most of the blame for the high prices asked 

 for fruit in urban centres, and rightly or 

 wrongly receives a large share of the kicks 

 that are going around in reference to the 

 high cost of living. While there is reason 

 for considerable of this criticism, it is pos- 

 sible to overdo it, and that thereby the in- 

 terests of the fruit growers will suffer. 



In some centres the antagonism against 

 the middleman, in the form of the retailer, 

 has assumed such proportions that any 

 price that looks high is immediately resent- 

 ed whether it is legitimate or not. The 

 average consumer does not take the trouble 

 to acquaint himself with crop and other 

 market conditions. This being the case, he 

 is not in a position to decide intelligently 

 whether the price asked is fair, and is prone 

 to jump to conclusions that may be unfair. 

 This condition has been intensified by war 

 conditions and the curtailed incomes of 

 some families. Dealers have reported this 

 year that their sales have been considerably 

 curtailed by the prevalence of this feeling 

 among consumers. The loss inevitably 

 works back to the producers. This side of 

 the question should not be overlooked when 

 discussions of this subject are conducted 

 in public in future. 



At the recent annual meeting of the Cana- 

 dian Horticultural Association, held in Lon- 

 don, Ont., it was decided to make applica- 

 tion to the Dominion Government to have an 

 expert in the Entomological Division as- 

 signed to the special duty of investigating 

 insect pests that affect greenhouse stock 

 and devising remedies for their control. 

 While a vast amount of valuable work has 

 been done in fighting insects that affeftt 

 fruit and farm crops grown in the open, 

 very little work has been undertaken to pro- 

 tect the immensely valuable crops that are 

 grown annually under glass. In view of the 

 rapidly increasing importance of the vege- 

 table and commercial fioricultural interests 

 of Canada the Dominion Government should 

 grant the request of the association at the 

 earliest possible date. 



A promise has been received by the Cana- 

 dian Society for the Protection of Birds from 

 the Dominion Government that an authorita- 

 tive book on the birds of Canada will be 

 prepared, with colored illustrations. This 

 is a welcome announcement. We have not 

 done what we should in Canada to protect 

 our native birds. One of the best forward 

 steps we can make is to extend the know- 

 ledge of the habits of our birds. This can- 

 not be accomplished in any better way than 

 by the circulation of such a book as is pro- 

 posed. The great benefits which have at- 

 tended the publication of the book, "The 

 Weeds of Canada," is an indication of the 

 beneficial results which may be anticipated 

 in connection with the new volume pro- 

 posed. 



