234 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



NOTES ON A LECTURE TOUR-III. 



Y far the most active and enthusiastic society that it was my privilege 

 to visit during my tour of March last was the society at Napanee ; 

 and to the energy and enthusiasm of its president, Mrs. Judge 

 Wilkinson, is due, in a very large measure, its activity and success, 

 the floral display in the hall at the annual meeting was a lovely one, 

 and the taste displayed in the order and decorations of the hall, 

 together with the very excellent vocal and instrumental music given 

 in the programme, all gave evidence that the citizens of Napanee were cultured 

 in art as well as in nature. And the suburban houses and adjacent farms, as far 

 as any observation could reach, gave evidence that home ornamentation was not 

 neglected by the farmers and suburban dwellers. 



At Trenton the meeting was a small one compared with the crowded hall 

 at Napanee. But this was due largely to the fact that several other entertainments 

 were being held in the town on the same evening. In its surroundings nature 

 has done much for Trenton for it is certainly located in a very picturesque spot. 

 While there I met Mr. Dempsey our experimenter for that district who was then, in 

 March, shipping two carloads of apples from his own storage buildings to Montreal 

 and realizing a good price for them. Mr. Dempsey is strongly convinced that 

 there is money in apples for any man who will provide himself with proper 

 storage and keep them till the winter is well advanced. But he is not convinced 

 that there is any money in it for the fruit experimenter at the allowances now 

 made to the several experiment stations, nor can he see any utility in planting 

 for testing purposes a great lot of old varieties of fruit, many of them now com- 

 monly grown and some discarded long ago as worthless. 



Making my way through the terrible snow blockade to Lindsay I was unable 

 to see much of the country to judge of the progress made in orchard planting, 

 as I travelled much of the time in the darkness, and when daylight favored me 

 the country had largely disappeared beneath the mountains of snow. In a 

 horticultural sense the town of Lindsay has made wonderful progress in the 

 last twenty-five years. Tree planting on the streets and avenues has been pushed 

 with commendable enterprise and the town must look very pretty with its 

 wealth of foliage in the summer season. I was delightfully entertained in 

 Lindsay by a member of our association, Mr. W. M. Robson, and here also I met 

 our esteemed and energetic director Mr. Beall. Mr. Robson and Mr. Beall are 

 close neighbors, and to me it was a pleasing privilege to go over their extensive 

 grounds and to observe the thrift and well-cared-for trees, vines and bushes that 

 made up their orchards, vineyards and small fruit grounds. For town residents 

 they are both large growers of fruit, and verily our director Mr. Beall is a practicer 

 as well as a preacher in horticulture. From indications visible on every hand 

 the handsome and progressive town of Lindsay has evidently profited both from 

 his preaching and his example. 



