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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



July, 1910 



petition by t!io citizens of Walkerville, Ont., 

 to encourage tho hortic-iilturHl i m prove mo nt 

 of their homes and gardens. This year over 

 $200.00 Hill t,o offered in prizes. Prizes are 

 given for collections of blooming plants, ar- 

 ranged in beds or borders; for flowering 

 vines honeysuckle, clematis, etc.; for win- 

 dow, lawn or porch boxes seen from the 

 street ; for hodgos l)ordering streets ; for 

 hanging baskets and so forth. Tho prizes 

 are divided, one set being offered to prop- 

 erty owners and the other to tenants. 



(iardens entered in tho competition have 

 to be cultivated and cared for by the com- 

 petitors, or members of their households. 

 Winners of first prizes for two consecutive 

 years are not eligible to compete in the 

 same class a third year. Competitors are 

 urged to place their flower beds as far as 

 possible where they can be seen from the 

 street, and to arrange them in keeping witli 

 the size of their yards. The judges will 

 visit the gardens entered for competition 

 four or five times during the season. 



Horticultural Societies holding or plan- 

 ning to hold similar contests will be apt to 

 find helpful suggestions in the prize list 

 and rules as printed and distributed by 

 this company. 



j)rovided by tho City Parks' Department, 

 municipal institutions and professional 

 florists. A beautiful specimen of the English 

 hawthorn was greatly admired. Many dif- 

 ferent varieties of flowers were shown. 

 Their quality was unusually high. 



Horticultural Society Notes 



The members of the Guelph Horticultural 

 Society held a lawn meeting on the grounds 

 of the Agricultural College early in June. 

 Prof. Hutt and Mr. Hunt were in charge 

 and described the shrubs and flowers then 

 in bloom. 



The members of the Toronto Horticultural 

 Society held an exhibition recently in the 

 Allan Gardens, which achieved unusual suc- 

 cess. Over six hundred vases of flowers 

 wore on view. Their beauty was supple- 

 mented by an array of ornamental greens 



Items of Interest 



Early this year Messrs. Parnell and Robt. 

 Thompson, representing the Cold Storage & 

 Forwarding Co., St. Catharines, Ont., 

 visited tho western i)rovincos to examine 

 market conditions and prospects. They 

 found opposition to the system followed of 

 auctioning fruit in the western markets, 

 but could see no possibility of a change in 

 the near future. In Calgary and some other 

 western towns, Elberta peaches are unknown 

 by that name and sell as Crawfords giving 

 general satisfaction. In Winnipeg, how- 

 ever, the Elberta is known as a first-class 

 peach. 



Dairy and Cold Storage Commissioner, J. 

 A. Ruddick, is spending a few weeks holi- 

 days in Prince Edward Island, this being 

 the first real vacation he has had since en- 

 tering the government service 20 years ago. 

 Mr. Ruddick's department is arranging for 

 trial shipments of peaches and other fruits 

 to Great Britain this year. 



Mr. Robt. Brodie of Notre Dame de Grace, 

 Montreal, reports the sale of the old garden 

 belonging to the late John Molson, at tho 

 corner of St. Lawrence Main and Sher- 

 brooke streets, Montreal, in which was or- 

 iginated the St. Lawrence apple in 1878. 

 The stump of the old tree was still there 

 recently. 



The British Columbia Fruit Growers' As- 

 sociation is preparing a list of wholesale 

 and retail fruit dealers in the prairie 

 provinces and British Columbia which will 

 bo distributed to memliers. 



Don'ts for Campers 



1. Don't, when in tho woods, throw down 

 a lighted match, cigar stub or otlier flaming 

 object; make sure that the flame has been 

 thoroughly extinguished before throwing it 

 away. 



2. Don't build your campiire larger than 

 is necessary. 



3. Don't, under any circumstances, leave 

 your fire unguarded, even for a compara- 

 tively short time; see that it is dead out 

 before you go away. 



4. Don't build your fir© in leaves, rotten 

 wood or other inflammable material. 



5. Don't build your fire against a large 

 or hollow log, where it is hard to be sure 

 when it has been entirely put out. 



To these "dont's" it may be added that, 

 in windy weather or in a dangerous place, 

 it is well to confine the tire in a hole dug 

 clean down to the mineral soil. A tire may 

 smoulder in the humus, or "dutf," for days, 

 only waiting for a strong breeze to fan it 

 into a flame that may burn over miles of 

 timber. 



Summer tourists and campers unfortu- 

 nately have a bad reputation among own- 

 ers of timber as being often a cause of fires. 

 Such fires could be prevented, almost with- 

 out exception, by a little extra care on the 

 part of the campers, who have been the un- 

 intentional cause of much forest destruc- 

 tion, and who have just as real an interest 

 in the preservation of the forests as the 

 owners of the timber themselves. The rules 

 given above are the result of long experi- 

 ence and observation on the part of many 

 woodsmen and lumbermen as to the origin 

 of fires from this cause, and are earnestly 

 commended to the attention of campers, 

 sportsmen and others. 



Renew your subscription now. 



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