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evening Dr. W. M. Wheeler delivered a most delightful and 

 instructive lecture on "Ants." This was illustrated by a collec- 

 tion of exceptionallv good lantern slides. All of the papers, etc., 

 presented at the meeting will be published in full in the Annual 

 Report of the Society. 



On August 29th the Society entertained the members and 

 delegates to an excursion to the Grimsby district, where collec- 

 tions of insects were made and several orchards visited, which 

 showed full well the value of spraying ,etc, to control injurious 

 insects. 



Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, Dominion Entomologist, Ottawa, 

 was elected President of the Society for 1913-1914. The City of 

 Toronto was decided as the place of the next meeting. 



POPULARITY AND ROLE OF THE ROSE.* 



Bv F. E. Buck, Experimental Farm, Ottawa. 



The popularity of the rose is rapidly increasing. To such 

 an extent is this true that quantities of beautiful roses belonging 

 to the Hybrid Tea class are now being planted in sections of 

 country where up till recently it was thought impossible to grow 

 with safetv roses of this class at all. For instance, several rose 

 lovers in Canada have recently planted large quantities, of the 

 best varieties that it was possible to import, of these roses. With 

 slight winter protection many of them are apparently quite 

 adapted to conditions of climate as far north as Montreal and 

 Ottawa. 



In connection with the spread of this flower, it mav be 

 apropos to ask why it is that it has always held the premier 

 position amongst flowers? 



In the spread of culture and the aesthetic spirit throughout 

 the world the role which the rose has played has been an im- 

 portant one, and in this paper it is the intention to briefly discuss 

 that role. 



The fact that somewhere during every hour of every day 

 and night the sun is shining somewhere in that vast empire 

 called British is often emphasized. Another fact equallv 

 significant to us perhaps in another way is that that same sun everv 

 dav of the 365 of every year calls into fragrance and beauty 

 somewhere in that same vast empire blossoms of one of the most 

 perfect of flowers, the rose. Although this statement may 

 perhaps sound exaggerated, it is nevertheless true. Roses 



* Paper presented at meeting of O.P.N.C., Dec. 10,1912. 



