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seventy-five years old, and says -he 

 pathetically. "I have got where I 

 can't keep on and can't let go." His 

 grand work has reached a climax, 

 where he must have help. 



Wyman Elliot's more than three 

 score and ten years seem to sit 

 lightly on his shoulders. He has pro- 

 duced several hardy apples and also 

 a gooseberry whch for size and pro- 

 lificness seems to fill a vacant space. 



Clarence Wedge, for many years 

 president of the society, always 

 brings encouragement and the treas- 

 ures of new experience. 



Take it all in all there is probably 

 no Society on earth which equals this 

 in the ability and devotion of its 

 leaders and in the fidelity of the 

 rank and file, scores of whom are 

 engaged in the work of building up 

 iron-clad fruits, which will resist the 

 trying climate of the great North- 



W6St, 



The brilliant and thoughtful papers; 

 the sharp discussion; the flashes of 

 wit and now and then a short stir- 

 ring speech, made the meeting a 

 true one to the last. 



C. S. HARRISON. 



York, Neb. 



H O RTI C U LTU RE, 



MONTREAL GARDENERS' AND 

 FLORISTS' CLUB. 



Important was the annual meeting 

 of the club last week. The report of 

 the year 1007 was fully satisfactory. 

 The attendance was large. Mr. Ka- 

 rins, of Henry A. Dreer's. Philadel- 

 phia, said that although he had at- 

 tended many meetings in large cities 

 in the United States, he had never 

 had the pleasure of seeing such a 

 numerous and interesting one. 



Officers were elected as follows: 



President, J. Pidduck; first vice 

 president, J. C. Eddy; second vice 

 president. .1. Luck; secretary-trea- 

 surer, W. H. Horobin; assistant secre- 

 tary, H. J. Eddy. Committee. P. West, 

 Alf. Pinoteau, W. Hall, Geo. Robin- 

 son, G. Vreugde, Geo. Trussell. 



The "game committee" was then 

 called to report, and Messrs. J. Luck, 

 G. Vreugde, J. Walsh, J. Eddy and 

 W. H. Horobin were happy to learn 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCI- 

 ETY'S COLONIAL FRUIT 

 EXHIBITION. 



The great colonial fruit exhibition, 

 on Nov. 28 and 29, was alike astonish- 

 ing in quantity, variety and quality, 

 but if we take into account the ex- 

 tent and climatic range of these 

 colonies it ceases to surprise. The 

 great hall and one of the annexes was 

 crowded with the display, apples be- 

 ing in great abundance from British 

 Columbia and Nova Scotia, those 

 from the first named country again 

 taking the first place. 



Not only were such old and well- 

 known sorts as Blenheim Orange, 

 Ribstone and Cox's Orange Pippins 

 among the display, with some Ameri- 

 ican sorts now naturalized and com- 

 mon in English gardens, as Northern 

 Spy, Baldwin. King Tompkins and 

 Newton Pippin, but there were num- 

 bers, totally unfamiliar in appearance 

 and name to English growers, yet ex- 

 ceedingly fine, and which we shall 

 soon know more of no doubt. Fall- 

 water and Golden Russet, Red Cheek 

 and others must come to be popular 

 with us in the near future. Most of 

 the best were staged in piles and 

 singly in flat trays, but a great many 

 were simply exhibited as they came 

 to hand in boxes and barrels. Those 

 first named, being of the very best 

 grade, were wrapped singly in soft 

 paper, and it was a marvel how well 

 they had traveled the three thousand 

 and odd miles by rail and steam 

 packet with so little injury. The 

 tropical fruits most in evidence were 

 bananas and the varied kinds of cit- 

 rus, from the small lime to the grape 

 fruit and the shaddock. 



A lecture was given in the after- 

 noon on the proper way of bottling 

 fruits, and how effectually to sterilize 

 the syrup so as to insure their keep- 

 ing. THOMAS BUNYARD. 

 London. 



December 14, 1907 



tate into complete harmony and rest- 

 fulness to the senses. Road or drive 

 making, lawns, gardens, rockeries, 

 etc. were all touched upon instruc- 

 tively. In the discussion which fol- 

 lowed Mr. Manning deplored the need- 

 less friction which too often occurred 

 between the landscape architect and 

 the gardener. The ultimate success 

 of the architect's efforts rests with 

 the gardener. He felt that after the 

 engineering problems had been over- 

 come and the final plans accepted they 

 should be turned over to the garden- 

 er who should complete the work, cr 

 at least be consulted on all matters, 

 especially the selection of shrubs ind 

 flowering plants. 



A vote of thanks was extended to 

 Mr. Manning by a large and apprecia- 

 tive audience after which the refresh 

 meut committee took charge. 



At the next meeting, December ?0. 

 A. W. Parsons will speak on carna- 

 tions. 



J. PiDUUCK, 



Head Gardener of Mt. Royal Park, Presi- 

 dent-elect of Montreal Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club. 



that they had won the prizes for the 

 aggregate points of the games of the 

 past year. The donors of the prizes 

 were Messrs. W. ENving & Co.. Dupuy 

 & Fergusson. J. McKenna. W. Cooper 

 and W. Rennie. A special committee 

 was appointed to look in the matter 

 of renting a new meeting hall. 



G. VREUGDE. 



MASSACHUSETTS STATE BOARD 

 OF AGRICULTURE. 



The public winter meeting of the 

 State Board of Agriculture for lectures 

 and discussions was held at Horticul- 

 tural Hall, Boston, on December 3, 4 

 and 5. 



In the absence of Mayor Fitzgerald 

 the meeting dispensed with some of 

 the scheduled formalities and gave its 

 attention first to brief remarks by 

 General Stephen M. Weld, president of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety and Governor Curtis Guild, Jr., 

 president of the State Board of Agri- 

 culture. 



William H. Spooner then took charge 

 of the meeting as chairman and some 

 very interesting papers were presented 

 by well-known agricultural experts. 

 About 200 farmers and fruit growers 

 were in attendance. 



At the afternoon session a lecture 

 was delivered by W. W. Tracy of the 

 bureau of plant industry of the U. S. 

 department of agriculture on "The 

 Breeding and Raising of Garden 

 Seeds." The discussion which fol- 

 lowed took a wide range. A good part 

 of it was upon the advisability of en- 

 deavoring to secure legislation which 

 will bring about the inspection of 

 seeds by state or national officials, who 

 will guarantee their vitality at the 

 time they are sold by the seedsman. 



On Thursday, the second day, much 

 of the time was spent in visiting 

 places of agricultural interest in the 

 neighborhood of Boston. 



NORTH SHORE HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



On December 6 this society had the 

 lileasure of listening to a lecture on 

 Landscape Architecture by J. Wood- 

 ward Manning of Reading. 



Mr. Manning covered the subject as 

 fully as was possible in the time. 

 Among the requirements necessary for 

 success in this work the speaker laid 

 great stress upon good taste in addi- 

 tion to broad education and knowl- 

 edge of soil and plant requirements. 

 He urged that natural existing condi- 

 tions should be taken advantage of 

 and improved upon, retaining every- 

 thing of beauty, broadening or creat- 

 ing vistas and bringing the whole es- 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The centenary of the Royal Society 

 of Agriculture and Botany of Ghent, 

 Belgium, will be celebrated with an 

 interesting International exposition, 

 April 26 to May 31, 1908. Programs 

 can be obtained from the secretary of 

 the society. Conpure 140, Ghent. 



The following are the new officers 

 of the Florists' Club of Seattle, Wash.: 

 President. J. W. Thompson; vice-pres- 

 ident, C. W. Malmo; secretary, Prank 

 Bathurst; treasurer, J. J. Bonnell. 



The annual meeting of the Virginia 

 Horticultural Society was held at 

 Staunton, December 4 and 5. 



