T H E 



Canadian HoPxTicultukis' 



Vol. XX. 



1897. 



No. 4. 



HOME OF MR. lOHN HAYDEN, COBOURG. 



MONO the photographs 

 which we have received 

 in response to our re- 

 quest, is a fine view of 

 an interesting house in 

 Cobourg. It takes many 

 years, and much taste, to make a beau- 

 tiful picture with lawn and trees about 

 a house, but this our friend Mr. John 

 Hayden, has well succeeded in doing. 

 "What a grand lawn tree that old locust 

 is after all, despite its rough bark and 

 brittle limbs ; it towers up to such a lofty 

 height, its foliage is so graceful, and yet 

 so open, only half hiding objects beyond. 

 Then the drapery of the house, formed 

 by festoons of climbing vines almost 

 meeting the shrubs at the base of the 

 veranda, is in good taste ; for to hide the 

 house foundations completely with shrub- 

 bery so that the house and the lawn 

 seem in a manner to be a unit, is in 

 accordance with the principles of land- 

 scape art. 



Respecting his yaid decorations, Mr. 

 Hayden writes : The Meerschaum vine 

 on the gable was given me by the late 

 Mr. Hume, father of John Hume^ Esq., 

 of Port Hope, some 25 years ago. It is 



much admired; also the Virginia creeper 

 on the corner. In shrubs we have 

 honey suckles. The trees are locusts, 

 chestnuts, elm, mountain ash, and 

 spruce. As you only see part of the 

 lawn in the photo, there are numerous 

 beds of flowers, such as geraniums, fu- 

 chsias, marsh mallows, pansies, carna- 

 tions, all in separate beds. There is also 

 a long bed of choice roses, over 12 varie- 

 ties, from Webster Bros., Hamilton. I 

 have a grapery with five varieties of 

 choice grapes, viz. : Black Hamburg, 

 Muscat Hamburg, Bucklands Sweet, 

 Sweet Water, Rose Chasselas, all of 

 which have bore well for the last 20 

 years. I had the vines from Ellwanger 

 &: Barry, of Rochester ; they yield very 

 fine fruit, which has been distributed 

 freely among sick people. 



The small greenhouse shown is larger 

 than it appears ; there are some 200 

 pots of all kinds of house plants, palms, 

 etc. It is a source of pleasure, espe- 

 cially in the winter. My experience is 

 this ; to be successful with flowers, you 

 have to love them. My wife attends to 

 the flowers ; we are both amateurs. 



Now, my vegetable garden is not 



