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be planted out separately and, will in time, make just as good bulbs 

 as can be bought. 



Hyacinths treated this way I have found to flower earlier and 

 more surely than imported bulbs. 



DISCUSSION. 



President Elliot. I would like to enquire of Mr. Grimes if he 

 has had any experience in growing our native shrubs taken from 

 the timber. 



Mr. Grimes. I have not. 



President Elliot. I would enquire if there is anyone here who 

 has? 



Mr. Barrett. You mean those that bear fruit and flowers. I 

 have taken the gooseberry but as yet it has not done much. I have 

 also the native dewberry. I am selecting some good specimens 

 and testing them and they are proving a success. I anticipate 

 that those I have selected and am growing will prove as good as 

 any of our cultivated varieties. I have also the Buffalo Berry 

 which I am developing on a small scale and it has promised suc- 

 cess. The Buffalo Berry grows native on the shores of our rivers 

 and is quite prolific. 



President Elliot. Is Mr. Dartt doing anything in the line of se- 

 lecting native shrubs, and doing anything with them? 



Mr. Dartt. I have just commenced, and expect to make that a 

 leading feature. At least I am going to collect all I can of the 

 native shrubs. 



Prof. Green. We are making a collection as complete as we can 

 of everything that is desirable that can be cultivated here. I would 

 speak about the Buffalo Berry as being a very beautiful ornamental 

 shrub and one of the finest that grows in this climate; it is per- 

 fectly hardy. I would also speak about the Sand Cherry as being 

 a very ornamental shrub for grouping at a distance. It is per- 

 fectly hardy always pleasant to the eye and will grow in very 

 dry situations. 



Prof. Pendergast. Several years ago I went into the woods and 

 took up about twenty or thirty young tree cranberries, and for 

 quite a number of years they were the most satisfactory shrub I 

 had. In flowering time, they were a most perfect blaze of splendor 

 and completely covered with bloom that part of the garden in which 

 they were. Later in the yea/, when laden with berries they were 

 very attractive. There is something peculiar about our soil. It 

 was once the bottom of a lake and now there is about a foot of soil 

 on the surface; clam-shells, and such things showing the origin of 

 the soil. I think in any other part of the country but that they 



