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CoBOURG. — Major H. J. Snel- 

 grove has been prominenth' identi- 

 fied witJi the Cobourg Horticultu- 

 ral Society since its organization 

 took place in 1897, when he was 

 elected secretary. The success of 

 the society is largely due to such 

 enthusiastic directors as President 

 J. S. Hayden and Secretary Snel- 

 grove, who by their selection of 

 many new varieties of fruits and 

 tiowers have made valuable acqui- 

 sitions to Cobourg's beautiful gar- 

 dens. 



Major Snelgrove is decidedly of 

 the opinion that the most useful 

 function of the Horticultural 

 Society consists in the importa- 

 tion and introduction of new 

 specimens of hardy flora, whose 

 superb merits are comparatively 

 unknown to the majority of our 

 " native born " florists. Here 

 there is a g^and field for original 

 exploitation-more especially in the 

 perennial plant and ornamental 

 shrub classes — containing scores 

 of foreign varieties, suitable for 

 Canadian cultivation, whose splen- 

 did qualities have only to be 

 propagated to be appreciated by 

 ever\- one. 



The Horticultural Society is 

 contributing materiallj' towards 

 making the pretty port of Cobourg 

 " a thing of beauty and a joy 

 forever " to the hundreds of south- 

 ern visitors who throng its fine 

 " old Ontario strand " during the 

 summer season. Already its 

 handsome streets and leafy 

 avenues, its spacious pleasure 

 grounds and velvety lawns, its 

 faun-enticing parks and gardens, 

 and its amphitheatre of \'ine-clad 

 hills and orchards, render Cobourg 

 distinguished among the most 

 progressive communities of our 

 beloved Ontario. 



In civic life Mr. Snelgrove is governor of the 

 gaol for the united counties of Northumberland 

 and Durham— an extensive and pKjpulous munici- 

 cipality. He has received the highest honors 

 and filled the highest seats in the grand bodies of 

 several large fraternal orders, ha\-ing just com- 

 pleted his term of oflSce as President of the 

 Canadian Fraternal Association — a congfress of 

 all the principal beneficent brotherhoods repre- 

 sented in this Dominion. 



Fig. 



1836. 

 Secr 



Grimsby.— The most succes.sful floral exhibition 

 ever held by our society took place in the Town 



H. J. Snelgrove, Major. Q. M., 40TH Batt.. 

 ETARY Cobourg Horticultural Society. 



Hall, Grimsby, on the evening of May i ith. A 

 nearby lumber mill put up the tables on Friday 

 morning, and removed them at the close for 

 about $1. A drayman collected and returned all 

 the plants, getting nearly all to the hall by 

 Friday noon for about $4, a committee having 

 previously solicited them and labeled them with 

 the owners' name. The committee of arrange- 

 ments completed their work about 4 o'clock, and 

 the judgfing was completed about 6 p. m. At 7 

 o'clock the public was admitted on payment of 

 an entrance fee of 10 cents each. There was an 

 attendance of at least 200 people, which was fine 



