^Qbr Affiliated ^ocictic?. ^ 



The date of annual meetings of the 

 Horticultural Societies of the province 

 were fixed by law for the 13th of Janu- 

 ary at 7.30 p.m. At this meeting it is 

 usual to attend to the annual business, 

 the election of officers, etc. We are receiv- 

 ing from our Afifiliated Societies lists of 

 officers elected and, in many cases, some 

 account of their work. These will be 

 printed in full in the annual report which 

 will soon be published by the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture and placed in the 

 hands of every member. It is not ne- 

 cessary, therefore, that a full list of the 

 officers appear in the journal, but, for 

 convenience of correspondence one with 

 the other, we give the name of the 

 President and Secretary of each Society. 



Nia(;ar.\ Falls Sociktv. — This ac- 

 tive and flourishing Society numbered 

 over one hundred members in 1896, and 

 has already reached over fifty for 1897. 

 On March 7th, 1896, a show of house 

 plants was made, at which Messrs. A. 

 McNeill of Windsor, Jas Shepherd of 

 Queenston, and T. Greiner of La Salle, 

 N. Y. delivered instructive addresses to 

 a large audience. On the i8th of June, 

 the Society made an excursion to the 

 Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph. 

 On August 27th, a fine exhibition was 

 made in which begonias were most 

 prominent. An orchestra in the evening 

 was much appreciated. Many members 

 exhibited plants and flowers. Wild 

 grapes and some very fine Japan plums 

 figured among the fruits. In Septem- 

 ber a very fine chrysanthemum exhi- 

 bition was held. The Society holds a 

 business meeting on the second Monday 

 of each month and on the third Monday 

 an open meeting to which all the mem- 



bers and their friends are invited, and at 

 which essays, lectures and discussion are 

 in order. A small flower show is often 

 an attractive feature. The directorate 

 make up a happy family, and includes 

 our ladies in the list for 1897. 



E. MoRDEN, Sec. 



Port Dover Society. — The annual 

 meeting of the Port Dover Society was 

 held in the town hall on Wednesday 

 evening, January 13th, and was well 

 attended and full of interest. The audi- 

 tors' report showed a small surplus, and 

 the Secretary-treasurer was compliment- 

 ed upon the neatness and accuracy of 

 his accounts. The Society was inau- 

 gurated in 1S96 with only twelve mem- 

 bers. It has now the full complement 

 required by law to entitle it to the Gov- 

 ernment bonus of .$100 which will help 

 not a little to increase the efficiency and 

 influence of the organization during the 

 coming year. Its members comprise a 

 good many of the prominent and influ- 

 ential fruit growers and others in the 

 district and, if the present interest in it 

 is kept up, it will prove of great value to 

 the community. All members are en 

 titled to a copy of the Canadian Hor- 

 ticulturist, recently enlarged and 

 improved, a bound copy of the annual 

 report of the Fruit Growers' Association 

 and a share in the plant distribution. 



T/te Secretary. 



Waterloo. — The following circular 

 has been issed to the members of our 

 Society : 



The Ontario Fruit (Growers' Association 

 have notified us tliat tliey will send in time 

 for Spring planting one of any of the four 



