HORTICULTURE IN WESTERN CANADA. 



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subject with the hope that horticulture will find a more perma- 

 nent place on the farms of Western Canada. In the endeavor to 

 make a home and acquire wealth quickly, many of our people in 

 Western Canada have overlooked many of the things that give to 

 farm life that true home-like touch. We find that an interest 

 aroused in our boys and girls, and young men, is more quickly 

 taken up as a part of the life on the farm. 



With the object of de- 

 veloping a more wide- 

 spread interest in the sub- 

 ject of gardening, we are 

 encouraging our Boys' 

 and Girls' Clubs, in con- 

 nection with the College 

 Extension Work, to each 

 develop and maintain a 

 garden as their own farm 

 during the coming sum- 

 mer. To supplement this 

 work in gardening, the 

 boys and girls are en- 

 couraged to put the 

 products of their gardens 

 in cans and thereby ac- 

 quaint them with some of 

 the end products of hor- 

 ticulture. 



Our Horticultural As- 

 s o c ia t io n, constituted 

 somewhat similarly to 

 this society in your state, is doing valuable practical work in 

 the devolopment of horticulture in Western Canada. Attached 

 to the association are practical men and women from all parts 

 of the West. These men and women are working through the 

 Provincial organization, or through their local societies, in pro- 

 moting a greater interest in horticulture in general. We find 

 that local societies stimulate local interest, which finally works 

 out to a wider field and thereby increases the value of the work 

 from a Provincial standpoint. 



One of the most valuable lines of work of the local societies 

 is the holding of horticultural exhibitions in their own localities. 

 It has been the means of stimulating a healthy competitive spirit, 



Prof. P. W. Brodrick. 



