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let them say, " Boya and girls, this park is for you ; don't destroy it, but enjoy it in 

 every posdble way." Some day I hope we shall see this principle recognized. 



Beauty in the streets and parks is an asset, and should be well looked after, as it is 

 perhaps the greatest attraction a city can have, next to a low tax rate ; and although we 

 have to-day many thousands of spoiled, ugly trees, fit only for the woodpile, yet there are 

 thousands more growing up, and intelligent care can prevent most of them from following 

 the example set by their elders. 



These points upon which I have touched affect not only our own city, but almost 

 every city and town in our country ; and the need for intelligent care is urgent. 



It was only a few weeks ago that an eminent horticulturist wrote in the pages of 

 Gardening, a leading American magazine, of the folly of planting trees in rows along the 

 drives in parks, a method which is the worst possible, for besides spoiling the artistic 

 appearance of the place, it prevents the people on the drives from the realizjiion and the 

 enjoyment of the beauties of either the nearby or the distant view, and yet, despite of the 

 fact that this principle is freely stated and admitted by the best authorities, it is the very 

 method which is being adopted in our river park, now in process of formation ; and not 

 only that, but the chief part of the trees planted have been soft maples and Norway 

 spruces, the very ones of which Londoners have already far too many. It is to be hoped 

 that ere long difl^rent methods may prevail, and while there is yet time the best may be 

 made of the material now planted, and that the future may be properly provided for by 

 the planting of such trees as will lend variety and beauty to the landscape. How this is 

 to be accomplished is not difficult to tell, for it can only be done by placing the control of 

 such matters in the hands of men who have given thought and study to the subject. Were 

 our own city council, for instance, to appoint for 1901 a committee consisting of a few 

 such men, and to give them a free hand in the matter the effect on the appearance of our 

 city parks and streets would be great and lasting. 



I have not touched upon the matter of shrubs and flowering plants, but it would be 

 easy to make a great improvement over present conditions were the plan above mentioned 

 to come into action, and no plan would be complete that did not aim at the best results 

 in these points, as well as others ; but a shrub may be at its best in five or ten years, 

 whereas a tree ia the growth of decades, and neglect for ten years may ruin the result of 

 twenty-five years' careful work and thought. 



Dr. James Fletcher, Dominion Entomologist and Botanist, Experimental Farms, 

 Ottawa, was the nexd speaker. His address was illustrated with beautiful lantern pic- 

 tures, which gave great pleasure to the audience. The excellent lantern was kindly 

 provided by Mr. Merchant, Principal of the Normal School, who was assisted in its 

 manipulation by Mr. R. W. Rennie. 



Dr. Fletcher first presented a series of pictures in illustration of the paper that had 

 jast been read by Mr. Saunders and showed how trees should be grown and treated, giving 

 as examples specimens that were growing on the Experimental Farms at Ottawa and in 

 the North-West. Many of these were from photographs taken on the grounds of the 

 Experimental Farm at Ottawa, and had been specially lent for the occasion by Dr. 

 William Saunders, the Director. Among others he exhibited the Black Walnut, Russian 

 Poplar, Austrian Pine, Blue Spruce, Scotch Pine, Cutleafed Birch, and some very remarkable 

 trees in the Kocky Mountains and in British Columbia ; he also showed some beautiful 

 flowering shrubs and other interesting plants, the Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora, 

 Spirsea van Houtei, Mary Arnott Rose, Charles X Lilac, Cypripedium spectabile, etc. ; 

 the Devil's Olub (a most troublesome plant to mountain climbers). Hedges on the North- 

 West Experimental Farms, Dr. Saunders's Hybrids from Apple and Pyrus baccata ; the 

 method of spraying trees at Ottawa. 



He then took up the subject of insects, showing how those that are iDJurioua maybe 

 divided into two great classes according to the mode in which they partake of their 

 food, namely the biting (those furnished with jaws) such as caterpillars, grub?, beetles, 

 &c., and the sucking (those provided with a beak or sucker), such as mosquitoes, aphides, 

 bugs, &c. The former can be destroyed by poisoning their food with such substances as 

 Paris green, hellebore, insect-powder, &c., but the latter cannot be reached in this way, 

 and must be subdued by substances that will smother them when applied to their bodies, 

 viz., kerosene emulsion, whale-oil soap, &c. The many beneficial species of insects, such 

 as lady-birds, ichneumons, carnivorous ground- beetle, which prey upon cut-worms, and 



