July, 1916. 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



177 



SOCIETY NOTES 



medal for delphiniums, and a silver medal 

 for perennials. The gold medal for peren- 

 nials was won by Dr. Brethour. Special 



prizes were taken by Miss Blacklock, Sir 

 K. B. Osier, Mr. H. H. Love and Mr. James 

 H. Howarth. 



Ottawa 



An exhibition of paeonies was held by 

 the Ottawa Horticultural Society during 

 June. The large cut blooms were arranged 

 around the hall on small tables in vases, 

 while special exhibits from the Experiment- 

 al Farm and by Mr. R. J. Farrell, the presi- 

 dent of the society, occupied special spaces 

 by themselves. The collection of blooms 

 was magnificent, and the hall was packed 

 to capacity throughout the evening by in- 

 terested visitors. 



Mayor Porter officially opened the show. 

 During the judging of the entries an ad- 

 dress on "Seasonable Topics tor Flower 

 (".rowers" was given by Mr. W. Hunt, of the 

 Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, dur- 

 ing which he touched upon the popular 

 flower of the evening, the paeony, its culti- 

 vation and care of the plant. The question 

 box was taken advantage of by a number 

 of those present. 



Flowers for Hospitals. 



At the close of the exhibition many ex- 

 bitor.s donated their cut blooms to the 

 dies' Auxiliary of the Horticultural Show 

 or distribution to the sick in the hospitals. 

 During the winter months the ladies saw 

 personally that the sick in the hospitals re- 

 ceived cut flowers from time to time. The 

 flowers were secured through the kindness 

 (if those who had greenhouses and from 

 plants grown by the ladies themselves. 



Planning Cities to Make Them Beautiful 



Thos. Adams, Ottawa, Tow i Planning Adviser, Commiss on of Conservation 



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Toronto 



The rose show of the Toronto Horticul- 

 re Society, held during June, was made 

 eautiful not only by the fine display of 

 roses, but of paeonies and other flowers ai 

 well. The hall was filled with tables bear- 

 ing almost every variety of seasonable 

 flower, which elicited admiration and de- 

 light from the large crowds that thronged 

 the hall all evening. The display of paeonies 

 was the largest ever shown by the society, 

 and the crowd was also a record-breaker. 



Judging by the display of raw, blue giant 

 l.irkspur, the rainy season must have helped 

 that flower wonderfully, some of the spikes 

 of bloom being eighteen inches long. A fln<r, 

 collection of paeonies, including many recent 

 importations from France, decorated the 

 ng tables contributed by Miss Blacklock 

 Meadowvale, as well as many beautiful 

 ardy perennials tastefully arranged. 

 A fine display of palms, ferns and flower- 

 ing plants from the conservatories of Sir 

 fOdmund B. Osier, was much admired, and 

 crowdR lingered around it. The displays in 

 the children's department were excellent, 

 :ind competition was keen. Beets, radishes, 

 lettuce, onions and other vegetables were 

 much in evidence, showing an awakening 

 interest in the society's instructions regard- 

 ing the growing of foodstuffs. 



After the exhibition the flowers were auc- 

 tioned off and the proceeds given to the Red 

 Cross .Society. Bidding was keen, and a 

 substantial sum was realized. Some of the 

 flowers were sent to the Home for Incur- 

 ables. 



The gold medal for roses was won by Mr. 

 P. L. Oreen, who also took a silver medal 

 for another collection of roses, a silver 

 medal for a collection of paeonies, a silver 



EDINBURGH, in Scotland, is an example 

 of the proper placing of many public 

 buildings in the newer part of the city. 

 The buildings overlooking Princess Street. 

 Gardens are not more beautiful in design 

 than many public buildings in Canada, but 

 the gardens and the spaciousness surround- 

 ing them sets them off to much better ad- 

 vantage. The natural beauties of Edin- 

 burgh have been made more beautiful by 

 the art of the citizens. The features of its 

 sky line are spires and domes and monu- 

 ments which are symbols of the spirituality, 

 the civic pride, the art, the intellect and 

 the patriotism of the Scottish people. To 

 look upon a picture of central Edinburgh is 

 to be reminded of the triumphs in art. In 

 literature and in loyal courage of her 

 citizens. 



What is it that contributes so much to 

 the nobility and dignity of the architecture 

 of Edinburgh? It is the spacious setting of 

 her public buildings, outstanding, not so 

 much as artistic units, but in their group- 

 ing, in their harmonious relation to one an- 

 other, and above all in the natural beauty 

 and artistic lay-out of their surroundings. 

 The landscape architect and the gardener 

 have been partners with the architect and 

 the builder. Imagine taking the classic 

 building which houses the Academy of Art 

 from its isolation on the Edinburgh Mound, 

 amidst the gardens of Princes St., and plac- 

 ing it at the corner of Yonge and King Sts., 

 Toronto. You would spoil both the facades 

 of these streets and the beauty of the buila- 

 ing. Imagine on the other hand the Bank 

 of Toronto being placed on an eminence 

 surrounded by a Princes Street garden; or 

 even imagine it being finished off as one 

 building on an open site, and you can realize 

 how much it would adorn the city of Toron- 

 to. 



What sky lines have we in Toronto, Win- 

 nipeg, or other Canadian cities, and what 

 do they symbolize? Sky-scrapers, water- 

 tanks, chimneys and electric wires,— useful 

 and capable of artistic expression in their 



proper place, — dominate everything. Many 

 of our best buildings are lost in a maze of 

 commercialized disorder — part of a meaning- 

 less conglomeration of buildings rising clifl- 

 like from our narrow streets. They sym- 

 bolize misplaced and misdirected art, the 

 want of science in planning, licence which 

 we miscall liberty, and a kind of commer- 

 cialism which is misnamed business effi- 

 ciency. Edinburgh has no lake front, it 

 lacks the beautiful ravines that surround 

 Toronto and it owes little it anything more 

 to nature than Toronto does, although, of 

 course, its site is different and requires dif- 

 ferent treatment. But it owes more to the 

 fospsight of its citizens. 



We do not lack in intelligence, in architec- 

 tural ability, in the art of landscape gar- 

 dening, or in business qualities in Canada. 

 But as a people we are slow to appreciate 

 the value of imagination, the need for pre- 

 serving natural features, the power of spac- 

 ious surroundings to ennoble and beautify 

 our buildings. 



We need the horticulturist and the archi- 

 tect to cooperate more and ample space to 

 be provided for each to exercise his art to 

 full advantage. There is enough land and 

 to spare in Canada and there is a growing 

 appreciation of beauty. Among other things 

 we need more planning of the land, less 

 crowding of the buildings and more use of 

 the art of the landscape gardener. 



The Maine Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Orono, Maine, has issued two bulletins, 

 one dealing with "Poisoned Sprays as a Bait 

 for the Fly of the Apple Maggot," and the 

 other "Six years of Experimental Apple 

 Spraying at Highmoor Farm," being Bulle- 

 tin No 249. 



The Dairy and Cold Storage Branch of 

 the Department of Agriculture at Ottawa 

 has issued Bulletin 48 of the Dairy and Cold 

 Storage Series, entitled "Precooling, Ship- 

 ment and Cold Storage of Tender Fruit." 

 This also contains notes on packing and 

 packages. This is by Edwin Smith, assisted 

 by J. M. Creelman, B.S.A. 



A flower bed planted by the Gait Horticultural Society. 



