OUR AFFILIATED SOCIETIES. 



The Grim.skv .Society elected Messrs. E. 

 J. Palmer, president, and \V. H. Read, sec- 

 retary-treasurer. A resolution was passed to 

 hold three monthly meetings, the 2ad Mon- 

 day in February, March and April. At the 

 first, a paper will be read on the Carnation 

 by Mr. .\. Cole, 2nd vice-president. The 

 by-laws, as suggested by the Fruit Growers' 

 Association was adopted. 



At a meeting of the directors held later, it 

 was decided to send out the following tine 

 . list of plants to each member, viz : Kyperi- 

 cum, Carnation, Lilium auratum, Dracaena, 

 Datura, Dahlia, Salvia, English violet, speci- 

 fic kinds to be selected later. 



Waterloo. — The directors congratulated 

 the society on the continued prosperity, the 

 members having increased to 167 during the 

 past year, each of whom received the Can- 

 adian HoRTiccLTUBisT, and a bound copy of 

 the Annual Report. In addition there has 

 been distiibuted 72 plum trees, 114 cherry 

 trees, 102 spruce trees, .352 house plants, 15 

 peonies, 87 Crimson Ramblers, 16 Gault 

 raspberries, .3 black currant bushes, 54 \V ick- 

 son plum trees, amd 2,004 Hyacinth bulbs. 

 The financial report was as follows : 



Receipts. 



Balance on hand $ 42 89 



Legislative Grant 140 00 



Membership Subscriptions 167 *X) 



Miscellaneous Minor Receipts . 20 5.') 



$370 14 



EXPENDITCBE.S. 



Horticultural Periodicals $133 60 



Trees and Plants 164 88 



Miscellaneous 24 22 



$322 70 

 Balance on hand $47 74 



At the election Mr. A. Weidenhammer 

 was made president, and Mr. J. H. Winkler, 

 secretary. A resolution was psissed, author- 

 izing the directors to purchase $15 worth of 

 fiower bulbs in the fall, and distribute them 

 between the Central and the separate school 

 children, with the object of cultivating a 

 taste for flowers among the children. 



Brampton. — At the Annual Meeting, Mr. 

 A. Barber was elected President, and Mr. 

 Henry Roberts, Secretary-Treasurer. 



DcRHAM. — The Annual Meeting of Durham 

 Horticulturist Society was held in the Public 

 Reading- Room, on the evening of the 11th 

 inst. Reports were read, the Directors' An- 

 nual by the Secretary ; the Auditors' by the 

 Treasurer. These on motions were adopted. 



A communication from the Secretary of the 

 Ontario Fruit Growers' Association, contain- 

 ing By-Laws for adoption by Affiliated Socie- 

 ties was, as requested, read and relegated to a 

 future meeting of Directors for consideration. 



The election of officers for the current year 

 then was proceedetl with : — C. Firth, Presi- 

 dent ; G. McKechnie, Vice-President. Busi- 

 ness being completed an adjournment took 

 place. The Directors met then and John 

 Kelly was elected Treasurer, and Wm. Gors- 

 line. Secretary. After routine business, pass- 

 ing accounts, etc.. Directors' meeting ad- 

 journed at the call of the President. 



The Directors' Annual Report for 1898 was 

 as follows : — 



LadteJi otuI Oentlemen,—We wish you the 

 compliments of the season, and are pleased to 

 report that our eflForts during the past year 

 for the attainment of the objects of our organ- 

 ization, the diffusion of horticultural know- 

 ledge and the distribution of nursery stock, 

 plants, bulbs, etc., has been appreciated and 

 attended with a fair measure of success. 

 Many of our members purchased and had 

 delivered to them, free of charge, those things 

 at cost prices, which were so low as to be to 

 them a revelation — a complete surprise. 



An exhibition of house plants and cut 

 flowers was held in the beginning of Septem- 

 ber, The great heat and long continued 

 drought of summer gave these such a forlorn 

 aspect generally, that a selection for show 

 purposes were somewhat of a difficult and 

 critical task Members and others kindly per- 

 mitted us t > select such as»we chose, and 

 these, when collected carefully and judicious- 

 ly and artistically massed on a raised plat- 

 form in the centre of the Town Hall, most 

 pleasantly surprised the many visitors. 



From the province and county liberal 

 grants were received during the year, which 

 enabled us to deal generously with our mem- 

 bers, to each of whom we gave premiums 

 costing 8.3c. The Ontario Fruit Growers' 

 Association supplemented this by a free dis- 

 tribution for experimental purposes of trees, 

 plants, etc., giving one or more to each person. 



Through the Society during the year, mem- 

 bers obtained flowering shrubs — rose bushes 

 and peonies ; small fruit bushes — black cur- 

 rant, gooseberry and raspberry, 780 ; fruit 

 trees — apple, pear, cherry, plum and peach, 

 108 ; strawberry plants, 50 ; house plants — 

 palms and chrysanthemums, 39 ; bulbs and 

 tubers — gladioli, calla, hyacinth, tulip, lily, 

 narcissus, daffodil, tuberous rooted begonia, 

 and canna, 460<) ; papers of seeds — flower and 

 vegetable, 475. Of these 6186 articles, the 

 Ontario Fruit Growers' Association supplied 

 113, the Society gave 3213 as premiums, and 

 members purchased, through the Secretary, 

 2860. 



CuRW. Firth, Wm. Gorsltnb, 



Prenident. Secretary. 



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