THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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CHICAGO APPLE SHOW 
Following the Spokane Show there will be held in the 
First Regiment Armory, Chicago, from November 28 to 
December 4, a display of the prize winners and collections of 
fruit from the different and leading fruit growing districts 
of the Pacific Northwest. This show is for the special pur¬ 
pose of bringing to the people of the Middle West a better 
conception of the fruit growing possibilities of the Pacific 
Slope states. 
OREGON FRUIT SHOW 
The Oregon State Horticultural Society will hold its 
twenty-fifth annual fruit show at Portland, November 30 
to December 2, 1910, in connection with its annual meeting. 
The competition includes prizes for 25 best boxes, 5 best 
boxes, 3 best boxes, 2 best boxes, and 1 best box, in addition 
to county and district prizes for apples, pears, grapes, dried 
fruits and canned fruits. The President of the Association 
is H. C. Atwell, and the Secretary, F. W. Power. The 
exhibition will be held in the store of Meier & Frank 
Company on Fifth Street. 
BRUSSELS INTERNATIONAL SHOW 
Reports of the first of the series of international horti¬ 
cultural shows held on the grounds of the Brussels (Belgium) 
Universal Exhibition which opened April 30th, state that 
the planning and laying out of the exhibits of plants and 
flowers have been done by a master hand, so artistic and 
scientific is the scheme of arrangement. The exhibit of 
fruits was very fine, most of the varieties coming from the 
colonies of Belgium. .There was a large exhibit of citrus 
fruit from Africa, also pears, apples, pineapples, etc. The 
strawberries and raspberries were exceptionally good, and 
plants of strawberries in pots, in bloom and with good 
ripened fruit, were prominent. A splendid exhibit of 
fruit in a glass case contained strawberries, raspberries, 
cherries, plums, nectarines, peaches and a splendid assort¬ 
ment of foreign grapes. The orchid display was one of the 
largest exhibits ever made, and thousands of people viewed 
them daily with admiration. There were many decorated 
tables; the table taking the first premium—shown by a 
well-known Paris firm—was arranged with fine orchids 
entwined with asparagus plumosus. 
A large piece of land near the building containing the 
floral display, laid off so as to be easily viewed and planted, 
contains blocks of evergreens, shrubbery, roses, both 
dwarf and standards, fruit and ornamental trees, fruit trees 
trimmed scientifically as espaliers, pyramids, etc., and 
fantastically trimmed trees of holly, box, yew and others. 
Along one of the avenues were rows of bay trees, very 
large, both pyramids and standards, with enormous tops. 
THE 1911 MEETING 
We learn that Secretary Hall is already considering 
matters in anticipation of the 1911 convention to be held in 
St. Louis. He has opened negotiations with the leading 
hotels and is looking for a suitable place for meeting and 
exhibits,. We can count on Secretary Hall being thoroughly 
beforehand in such matters. 
THE APPLE INDUSTRY IN ONTARIO 
Prof. J. W. Crow, of the Ontario Agricultural College, 
Guelph, Ontario, in an address delivered before the Apple 
Shippers’ Association in Niagara Falls recently, compared 
the present position of the apple industry in Ontario with 
that of fifteen years ago, and stated some of the causes for 
its decline. 
The first reason given as a cause of the decline is the 
increase of fungous and insect pests. It is said that 
probably less than twenty years ago apple scab and codling 
worm were not found in abundance in any part of Ontario. 
The second great reason is winter injury. On account 
of the comparatively mild winters up to six or seven 
years ago, many varieties which have since proved tender 
were planted, and these are now dying in all sections of the 
Province, owing to two extremely trying winters within the 
past few years. 
The third reason is the unfortunately large number of 
buyers of the wrong kind, under whose influence prices 
have been lowered, until the farmers have lost interest in 
apple growing. 
It is a significant fact that many buyers, unable to 
secure good apples, are going into the business of apple 
growing themselves. Co-operative selling is advocated, 
due to the fact that in almost every locality in Ontario 
where the apple business is thriving, there is to be found a 
growers’ co-operative selling organization. 
The Norfolk District. The apple industry has shown 
more progress in the county of Norfolk than in any other 
section of Ontario in recent years. Mr. James E. Johnson, 
of Simcoe, as manager of the Norfolk County Fruit Growers’ 
Association, is largely responsible for this condition of affairs 
for he has established a high standard for grading and 
packing. Last year, approximately 19,000 barrels of apples 
were packed by this Association. Both old and new 
orchards consist largely of Baldwin, Spy, and Greening. 
Most of the orchards in the county are now being given 
careful attention in the matter of cultivation and spraying, 
and winter injury is unusual, owing to the location in 
southern Ontario. Choice varieties of No. 1 fruit sold last 
year for $3.50 a barrel f. o. b. 
It is in the Lake Huron District that the decline of 
orcharding is most noticeable. Many excellent orchards in 
this region are receiving little or no care. A good business 
proposition is waiting for the enterprising man who will 
take hold of such properties as these. 
GOOD ADVERTISING 
Apple Tree Worth $30,000. A telegram to the N. Y, 
Herald from Tacoma, Wash., announces that “An apple 
tree planted twenty years ago by an Indian, near the shore 
of Lake Chelan, is now worth $30,000, that offer being 
made by an Eastern orchard syndicate that desiies to 
propagate the variety. It was refused by the nursery com¬ 
pany, which will itself develop the fruit. The tree pro¬ 
duces a golden yellow apple called the Chelan It is dif¬ 
ferent from any other Washington apple, possessing ex¬ 
ceptional keeping qualities.’ 
