240 TJie Canadian Horticulturist. 



the Michigan State Horticultural Society, and bound volume of 477 pages. It differs from 



therefore is of special interest to us as members ours in several particulars, and especially in 



of the Ontario Fruit Growers' Association. A having a large number of sub-reports from 



letter has been received from President Lyon, various committees, and from the various local 



of New Haven, Michigan, asking that we horticultural societies of the state. This lat- 



should make an exhibit as an Association. ter feature might, i^erhaps, be very wisely 



This the Directors thought not best to attempt, adopted by. us, if the secretaries of all local 



but at the same time would call the attention societies in Ontario would send in their ad- 



of all members of our Association to this Fair, dresses and in response to our call, give us some 



who may receive prize lisis on application to account of their year's work for publication. 



Mr. T. T. Lyon. His letter also appears in There are also two dozen committees on 



another column. such subjects as Floriculture, Small Fruits, 



Vegetable Gardening, Deciduous Trees, Rus- 



HORTICULTURE IN MINNESOTA. — We sian Fruits, Forestry, Ornithology, etc., etc., 



have just received the Report of the Min- all of which are expected to report at the 



nesota Stale Horticultural Society, a well annual meeting following their appointment. 



GARDENER'S SONG. 



H ! a gardener's life is as pleasant a life 



As a working-man's can be : 

 Tis a glad pursuit to plant the root. 

 And nurse the flower and tree. 

 His life is set to ceaseless song, 



Sweeter than poet can sing, 

 Warbled in notes frorn the feather'd throats 



Of the birds, from summer to spring. 

 And doth he not make the wildest brake 



Gay as a conqueror's fleet ? 

 For his strong right hand is the magic wand 

 That brings fresh flowers to our feet. 



With a sneer or a frown a man may look down 



Upon many ignoble trades ; 

 But Purple and Pride even dare not deride 



The work of the King of Spades. 

 The oldest craft known he claims as his own, 



The only work Heaven thought well 

 Should be done by a man ere a trouble began, 



Or the " grand old gardener" fell. 

 Then the inen of the spade should be proud of their trade, 



Invading no crowded mart, 

 .Whose daily toil gives wealth to the soil, 



And joy to the home and heart. 



— Rowland Brown, in the " Gardener's Magazine. 



