AFFILIATED SOCIETIES. 



A List of Some of the Affiliated 

 Horticultural Societies : 



Picton — President, Lieut. Col. T. Cog ; Sec- 

 retary, W. T. Ross. 



Simcoe — President, Rev. Canon Young ; 

 Secretary, Henry .Johnson. 



Brampton — President, Dr. C. Y. Moore ; 

 Secretary-Treasurer, Henry Roberts. 



Napanee — President, Mrs. .Judge Wilkin- 

 son ; Secretary-Treasurer, E. H. Reid. 



Grimabti — President, Mrs. Edgar Palmer ; 

 Secretary, E. H. Reid. 



Lindsay — President, W. M. Rnbson ; Sec- 

 retary, F. .J. Brampton. 



Port llopt — President, H. H. Burnham ; 

 Secretary, A. W. l^riogle. 



Port Colbonie — President, E. 0. Boyle ; 

 Secretary, E. O. Augustine. 



Durham — President, Cliristopher Firth ; 

 Secretary, Wni. Gorslin. 



Ifoof/s/Ofi-— President, IX W. Karn ; Sec- 

 retary, R. B. Thornton. 



B('«f«i«e— President, \V. C. Reid ; Secre- 

 tary, \V. Jetfers Diamond. 



Smith's i^aVs— President, .J. S. McCallum, 

 M. D. ; Secretary, not given. 



Port Dover — President .James Symington ; 

 Secretary, W. J. Carpenter. 



Meaford — I'resjJent, Oscar Boden ; Secre- 

 ta'y, A. McK. Cameron. 



Niagara Falls Sow^A— President, M. P. Ly- 

 on ; Secretary, E. Morden. 



Kincardine Horticultural Socie- 

 ty. — Sir, — I beg to inform you that 

 conformably to the Agricultural and Arts 

 Act the Society here met on the 13th inst. 



for organization and election of officers. Mr. 

 A. C. Washburn was elected President, and 

 Joseph Barker, Secretary. 



The Secretary was instructed to acknow- 

 ledge the receipt of a bound copy of the Hor- 

 ticulturist and one of the t'ruit Growers' 

 Reports, for our library, from the Ontario 

 Society. 



.Jo.SEPn B.^RKKE, Secretary. 



Lindsay Horticultural Society. — 

 Dear Sir, — I send you some extracts 

 from my report as Secretary, read at our 

 annual meeting : 



During the year we have held six Directors' 

 meetings and one public meeting. We have 

 distributed 1,600 hyacinths and 2,000 tulips, 

 also a large number of other plants. Also we 

 have circulated among our members 102 copies 

 of The Canadian Horticurist. Our grant 

 from the Ontario Legislature was the liberal 

 sum of 895, the benefit of which is given our 

 whole membership, as indicated above. 



F. FraiMPTon, Sivrelary. 



Durham. — At the annual meeting of 

 our Society, after the election of officers 

 it was resolved that this Society affiliate 

 with the Ontario Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tion. We hope to send you at least one 

 hundred names. 



Wm. Gorsline. 



PLANTING HYACINTHS. 



N the matter of Linuary planting of 

 Hyacinths, we believe that as a 

 ._L general rule better results can be 

 obtained by earlier planting, although 

 we have never found that the September 

 started bulbs resulted any better than 

 those started one or even two months 

 later. If the bulbs are stored in dry 

 sand, in a cool place ; it is quite prob- 

 able that if planting is delayed even 

 as late as January, that good flowers 

 may be obtained ; yet we would prefer 

 to plant early, say in four inch pots, and 

 plunge the pots in a cold frame, cover- 

 ing with leaves, the pots however must 

 be brought into a warm and dark place 



for three or four weeks preparatory to 

 placing them where they are to bloom, . 

 as in cold quarters they will make little 

 if any roots during the winter months, 

 and the pots must be well filled with 

 roots before exposing to the light, in 

 order to have good spikes. We think 

 that the rather obscure meaning of the 

 sentence referred to in the article upon 

 " Hyacinths," in the January number, is 

 that the soil should as far as possible be 

 kept at all times uniformly moist until 

 the bulbs have made a good .start, and 

 that in a dark place. 



Wehster Bros. 

 Hamilton. 



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