A BIG GATHERING OF HORTICULTURISTS ASSURED 



The convention of representatives of th'e 

 horticultural societies of the province, which 

 will be held in Toronto next November at the 

 time of the Provincial Fruit, Flower and Honey 

 Show, promises to be one of the most success- 

 ful features of that biff event. The officers of 

 the Toronto Horticultural Society have already 

 evinced great interest in the gathering and are 

 anxious to show their friends from all over the 

 province how nicely tl^ey can take the part of 

 hosts. A most interesting program is being 

 planned. Leading officers of the various horti- 

 cultural societies of the province will be pres- 

 ent, as well as prominent officials from the 

 Dominion Experimental Farm and Provincial 

 Agricultural College. Two or three well known 



speakers from the United States and the Mari- 

 time provinces, who will be in attendance at 

 the annual convention of the Ontario Fruit 

 Growers' Association, will be able to address 

 the meetings of the horticultural society dele- 

 gates as well. Members of societies are in^ 

 vited to send The Horticulturist suggestions 

 as to subjects they would like to have discussed 

 at the convention. 



Already a large portion of the horticultural 

 societies of the province have approved of the 

 proposed convention and agreed to send dele- 

 gates. This ensures a good attendance. In 

 addition to the reports from horticultural socie- 

 ties previously printed in The Horticulturist, 

 the following societies have been heard from. 



There will be plenty of opportunity at the 

 proposed convention to further the interests of 

 local horticultural societies, and the only way 

 to do so is to form a provincial association. 

 Such an association is needed badly in order to 

 have real live up-to-date societies. It will be 

 necessary to call meetings of the local societies 

 for full discussion of desired improvements. 

 The delegates sent will then have to endeavor 

 to bring before the association the views of 

 their members. One good effect of such a pro- 

 vincial association will be its ability to buy 

 premium plants in such large quantities as to 

 make it possible to obtain them at a minimum 

 expense. This would be much better than for 

 each society to purchase individually. — (J. W. 

 Brennan, Grimsby, Ont. 



SHOULD MEET WITH APPROVAL. 



The advisability of forming a provincial 

 horticultural association is sure to meet with 

 approval. The fruit industry and floriculture 

 are attaining large proportions in many parts 

 of Ontario, and an association where repre- 

 sentative men from different parts of the pro- 

 vince could meet and exchange views on these 

 and similar subjects would be of much ad- 

 vantage. I will bring the matter before the 

 notice of our society at its next meeting. — (J. 

 E. Johnson, Sec'y Leamington Hort'l Soc. 

 WANT AN INDEPENDENT ASSOCIATION. 



The members of the Woodstock Horticul- 

 tural Society all approve of the proposed con- 

 vention at the time of the Provincial Fruit, 

 Flower and Honey Show. — (Jas. S. ScarfE, Sec'y. 



The directors of the Cobourg Horticultural 

 Society heartily approve of the proposal to form 

 a provincial horticultural association, with the 

 reservation, however, that it shall not be used 

 as a donkey engine to the Ontario Fruit Grow- 



ers' Association. At the time of its organiza- 

 tion our society was induced to affiliate with 

 the O. F. G. A., but two years ago, in common 

 with nearly every other horticultural society 

 in the district, at a meeting to which all our 

 members were specially summoned, it was 

 unanimously resolved to abandon all connec- 

 tion with the O. F. G. A. This emphatic action 

 was taken owing to the treatment received at 

 the hands of those who had succeeded in ex- 

 cluding from the board nearly every horticul- 

 tural society representative. — (W. J. Snelgrove. 



I cannot emphasize too strongly my hearty 

 indorsement of the proposed formation of a 

 Provincial Horticultural Association, which I 

 think might be organized pretty much on the 

 lines of those two good models, the FrilM 

 Growers' Association and the Ontario Poultry 

 Association. — (J. H. Brondson, former Sec'y 

 •Guelph Hort'l Soc. 



I have been in consultation with our presi- 

 dent, Mr. D. McClew, of the Deseronto Horti- 

 cultural Society, regarding suggestions to form 

 a provincial horticultural association. We be- 

 lieve that our society would favor the forma- 

 tion of an association on purely horticultural 

 lines, as distinct from the fairs, the fruit grow- 

 ers and bee-keepers associations, provided that 

 the membership fee to be paid by each society 

 . to the central association is a nominal one, so 

 as not to be a drain on the funds of the socie- 

 ties. We feel assured that this society will 

 favor the sending of a delegate to the meeting. 

 The bringing of horticultural societies into 

 closer touch with each other and the adoption 

 of uniform methods of operation sheuld be the 

 means of producing more effective work and re- 

 sult in lasting benefit to the province. — (R. W. 

 Lloyd, iSec'y. 



The Use of Bands. — Does it ever occur to the 

 advocates of spraying for the protection of fruit 

 trees that there is a limit to the amount of pre- 

 ventiveness accomplished by this means — that 

 trees cannot be properly sprayed, even by ex- 

 perts, only at certain periods of the year; that 

 a large proportion of the insects, both flying 

 and climbing, wing and wingless, are continu- 

 ally coming to the ground for moisture, etc.; 

 that if an effective band were placed around 



the trunk of trees, that same would prevent the 



pest, once down, from again climbing the tree; 



that such a band properly applied would not 

 only stop them but would form such a means of 



protection for them that their cocoons would 

 be laid underneath the band, where they 



could be readily found and easily destroyed, 

 thus making it a comparatively simple opera- 

 tion to destroy thousands of the eggs of all 



kinds of insects. — (F. V. Parsons, Toronto, Ont. 



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