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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



The Florists of Hamilton have recently 

 organized with Wm. Hunt, President, and 

 P. Lawson Secretarv. 



Medal FOR Horticultural Literature.. 

 — Among the medals awarded at the Pan 

 American, we notice one to the Ontario 

 Fruit Growers' Association, for an exhibit of 

 horticultural literature. This was given for 

 a set of bound and unbound copies of The 

 Canadian Horticulturist which the writer 

 forwarded to Mr. Bunting for exhibition. 



We have reason for congratulation over 

 this since this is the only medal awarded for 

 horticultural literature. We also obtained 

 a medal and diploma at the World's Colum- 

 bian Exhibion for the same. 



write a series of articles we have : F. C. 

 Sears, Professor of Horticulture, of Acadia 

 College, Wolfville, N.S. ; H. L. Hutt, 

 Professor of Horticulture, Agricultural Col- 

 lege, Guelph ; W. T. Macoun, Horticul- 

 turist, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa; 

 Wm. Hunt, Professional Gardener, Hamil- 

 ton, Ont. Besides these there are many 

 others who will contribute occasional 

 articles. Our readers may therefore expect 

 a series of excellent issues of this journal, 

 which we hope will be of great public benefit. 



Contributors for 1902. — Our readers 

 will be pleased to know that several talented 

 writers will contribute to these pages during 

 the coming year, and among those who will 



\t the Fifth Annual Meeting, the 

 American Park and Outdoor Association, at 

 Milwaukee last June, Mrs. Seavey spoke on 

 encouragement of local improvement work, 

 such as might be done by local Horticultural 

 societies, as follows : — 



Your committee suggests, Ti ) that improvement 

 societies are the alreedy existing nuclei from which 

 great transformations should result ; 



that im.^ 



