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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



December, 1912. 



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ELWAY'S famous Hardy 

 Herbaceous Plants are modern 

 developments of the old English 

 .favourites. The cottage "Piny 

 Rose" has become the Pasony, 

 incomparable in form, colour and fra- 

 grance. J he old-fashioned Larkspur 

 has developed into the stately blooms of 

 the Delphiniums ; Gaillar- 

 dias, Pyrethrums and the 

 rest, all serve to bring back 

 the charm of the old-world 

 English garden. Special 

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 plants to arrive in America 

 in good order, and they can 

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 a minimum of attention. 



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prominence as a fruit sfrowin/?- county 

 largely through the cooperative efforts of 

 its growers. Their exhibit, comprising 

 three hundred and fifty-two boxes, was the 

 most striking at the fair. A map of the 

 county was traced with different colored 

 apples. Brant county also had an attrac- 

 tive exhibit of seventy-six boxes and twelve 

 barrels of splendidly colored fruit. Brant 

 fruit growers tell you that you can always 

 bank on their Spies, and the excellence of 

 the specimens shown merits attention. 

 Cooperative effort was also responsible for 

 this excellent exhibit. Other excellent 

 county exhibits of box fruit were made by 

 Essex, Huron, and Prince Edward. Other 

 fruit growing districts, notably Hastings 

 county, had numerous entries of fi'ne fruit 

 in competitive classes. 



Prominent among the winners in the bar- 

 rel classes were: P. Walker, T. Howe. Fred 

 Dean, and John Winter, all of Norfolk. In 

 the single box classes some of the best 

 awards went to R. B. Scripture. Brighton; 

 Northumberland and Durham Apple Grow- 

 ers' Association; T. Cunningham. Norfolk; 

 G. H. Martin & Son. Port Hope; Arcona 

 Fruit Growers' Association ; John Watson, 

 Ontario Co.. and F. G. Stewart, of Homer. 

 Other exhibitors too numerous to memtion 

 secured high places in the box classes. In 

 the plate classes awards were distributed 

 over the entire fruit growing area of On- 

 tario, but here also Norfolk county was 

 most prominent. 



BEST FLOWER SHOW TBT 



The florists were Tiowise behind the fruit 

 men in improving their department at the 

 fair. The flow"r show was the largest ever 

 seem at the Ontario Horticultural Exhibi- 

 tion, and there were many outstanding ex- 

 hibits. Roces wre an esnecially strong 

 class. Miller, of Bacondale, after being 

 absent from the shows for pome years, this 

 vear reappeared with the finest collection 

 of roses ever exhibited at this fair. A 

 bunch of Pink Killarneys attracted special 

 attention. Chrysanthemums made a fine 

 showine'. Sir Henry Prl1"tt being the most 

 successful exhibitor. The Allan .Gardens 

 hnd a nice croup exhibit not in competition, 

 and the Exhibition Park, two groups. One 

 bloom in one of the Park exhibits, florists 

 pronounced the most perfect that they had 

 ever seen. 



The honey exhibits which have shown a 

 tendency to fall off in recent years was this 

 vear an outstanding success. "I was at 

 the Madison Square Gardens last winter 

 .Tnd there were exhibits from six States in 

 the honey section, but the whole together 

 would not touci the Ontario exhibits." said 

 Mr. S. D. House, a United States visitor to 

 the Fair. "I have travelled all over the 

 United States." he continued, "but I have 

 never seen such an exhibit as vou have 

 here." 



One of the most prominent exhibits at 

 the fair was a large display of comb, bot- 

 •^'"d. canned, and brick honey, made by the 

 Ontario Beekeepers' Association. This 

 disnlay was arranged in the form of a dome 

 !" the centre of the building. The display 

 of the Middlesex county Beekeepers' Asso- 

 ri-^tion nearby, lost none of its attractive- 

 ness because of its less extent. 



FINE PRODTJCTB OF THE GARDEN' 



Vegetable growers did their best to hold 

 the pace with fruit growers in improving 

 their denartment of the exhibition. For- 

 merly the veg»^table exhibits have been 

 omewhat crowd'd. but this year they had 

 lots of room, which they used to good ad- 

 vantace. The onion display as usual was 

 one of the largest and best Cauliflower, 

 "otatoes a"d cabbage also had good classes. 

 Sqme of those who did the roost to make 



