THE WATERLOO FRUIT AND FLOWER GROWERS. 



Fig. 1280.— Wat krloo Town, Looking North- wksi". 



and manager ; and last September was 

 appointed president. He was also pre- 

 sented with many valuable testimonials 

 showing the esteem in which he was 

 held by the company. 



Always having a taste for gardening 

 and flowers, he always made them a study 

 in his travels, and now has a small green- 

 house containing nearly one hundred 

 different varieties of cacti, and a varied 

 assortment of other plants. His garden 

 is fairly well filled with perennial plants. 

 He has twenty varieties of lilies, eight 

 hundred bulbs of gladioli, as many tulips, 

 a large number of hyacinths, Iris Germ- 

 anica, Kaempferi, Anglica and Hispan- 

 ica, twelve varieties of clematis, and 

 many beautiful native wild flowers. 



In order to give some idea of the 

 excellent work of our affiliated Society 

 at Waterloo, we take the following from 

 the address of Mr. Jas. Lockie, the 

 President, at our last meeting After 

 speaking of the failure of the ordinary 

 method of conducting such a Society 

 by spending money in prizes, and the 

 wisdom of using the funds instead in 



the purchasing of plants, seeds, litera 

 ture, employing lecturers, etc , so that 

 all the members get equal benefit, Mr. 

 Lockie proceeded as follows : — 



You are probably aware that the 

 majority of this town are Germans or of 

 German extraction, and, if there is any 

 one thing more than another that the 

 German cares for, it is his home and his 

 garden, growing his vegetables and 

 small fruits and having flowers in his 

 home. So we had no difficulty in form- 

 ing our Society, and soon had seventy- 

 five members for the year. The success 

 was almost unprecedented, and the next 

 year with very little difficulty we had 

 one hundred and twenty-five members, 

 and in this, our third year, we have one 

 hundred and fifty-five — not a bad show- 

 ing for a town of 3,300 inhabitants. 



During the year we have received 

 from your Association and distributed 

 to our members 25 new Japan lilacs, 75 

 Japan lilies, 28 Conrath raspberry and 

 37 Dempsey pear trees. Regarding the 

 lilies, I may say that the bulbs were fine. 

 I saw one growing in the garden of a 



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