June, 1910 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



»57 



Societies, was amended in such a way as to 

 give the society an annual government 

 grant, and also a new name, which hence- 

 forth became the "Montreal Horticultural 

 Society and Fruit Growers' Association of 

 the Province of Quebec." 



"This change was for the better; it gave 

 renewed vigor into what had already be- 

 come an active and enterprising society. 

 Annual exhibitions were held, reports were 

 published and the society occupied a prom- 

 inent position all over the Dominion and 

 also in the New England states. It was in 

 1878 that the society opened its prize-list 

 for the best county collection of apples, 

 which added greatly to the display of apples 

 at the exhibition. 



"The present meeting is not the first time 

 that prizes have been offered for the best 

 winter seedling apples. In 1883, the soc- 

 iety secured the help of the late Rev. E. 

 Hamilton and others, who collected a large 

 number of choice seedling apples. The late 

 Chas. Gibb, Dr. Horkins, of Newport, Vt., 

 Mr. Webster, of South Northfield Vt., and 

 myself were appointed a committee to 

 examine and select the kinds that were 

 worth retaining, to test their keeping and 

 other qualities. We kept about 75 varieties. 

 These were put in the basement of the ware- 

 house belonging to the late Mr. Wm. Evans, 



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seedsman. Unfortunately, the river rose 

 and flooded the basement, destroying in a 

 few hours what took months of hard work 

 to accumulate. We hope that our present 

 attempt to secure, amongst seedling apples, 

 something akin to what the Baldwin apple 

 is in Ontario and western New York, will 

 meet with better success. 



"The society was greatly indebted to the 

 late Henry S. Evans for a large measure of 

 its prosperity; for 13 years, he was its sec- 

 retary. The society had also on its board 

 of directors, the late Chas. Gibb, of Abbots- 

 ford, who proved to be its leading spirit. 

 He was such an enthusiast in horticulture 

 that he, accompanied by Prof. J. L. Budd, 

 of Ames College, Iowa, left in June, 1852, 

 for Russia in search of hard varieties of 

 fruit. He returned from Russia in Feb- 

 ruary, 1883, bringing with him a lot of val- 

 uaWe information and hardy varieties of 

 fruit that have been a great benefit to the 

 colder parts of our country. On his way 

 home from India, he took dangerously ill, 

 and died at Cairo, Egypt. By his death, 

 the society, with which he was so long con- 

 nected, and the whole Dominion at large, 

 suffered a severe loss. 



"It was in the winter of 1892, at Abbots- 

 ford," concluded the speaker, "that the 

 Pomological and Fruit Growing Society of 

 the Province of Quebec was formed. It 

 was thought we could do greater provincial 

 work, which has since proved true. We 

 have had meetings north, south, east, and 

 west of our province, spreading the leaven of 

 fruit growing and horticulture in general, 

 and now we are beginning to see the re- 

 sults — more orchards are being planted. Wo 

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 for we can grow the best apples in the 

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