A Barrie Garden Possessing Novel Features 



Two ot tliose who have assisted in 

 keeping the Barrie Horticultural 

 Society in a leading place among 

 (he liorticultural societies of Ontario, 

 are Mr. Donald C. Campbell and his 



power from the stream, it affords Mr. 

 Campbell a very unusual feature for his 

 grounds in the shape of a trout pond, 

 which is stocked with magnificent speci- 

 mens of the speckled trout. A number 



Some of the Walk* and Floral Effects in Mr. Campbell's Garden 



daughter. Miss Mary K. Campbell. I'rom 

 their garden at "Cilen .Mmond" have 

 come the largest exhibits and a big 

 percentage of the prize-winners at the 

 annual exhibitions held by the Barrie 

 Society in recent years. Miss Camp- 

 liell is vice-president of the society. 



From his boyhood days at I^unblane, 

 Scotland, Mr. Campbell has been a lover 

 of flowers. Thirty years ago he bought 

 a few acres of land at the westerly limit 

 of the corporation of Barrie. Fine pines 

 and other timber co\ered the property, 

 and through it ran two sparkling streams 

 of spring water. By patient industry Mr. 

 Campbell and his family gradually con- 

 verted the timber-clad slopes into what 

 is to-day one of the best gardens in 

 Barrie. The soil is sandy for the most 

 part, and requires the use of consider- 

 able fertilizer as well as a liberal sup- 

 ply of water. The latter is furnished 

 from a system of water-works planned 

 and constructed by Mr. Campbell, the 

 creeks being utilized to drive a ram 

 and a water-wheel which force the water 

 to a reservoir whence it is piped to dif- 

 ferent parts of the grounds. At practi- 

 cally no annual expense he thus has an 

 abundant and convenient supply of 

 water, the advantages of which many 

 readers of The Canadian Horticulturist 

 will possibly appreciate. 



In addition to getting his water and his 



of these are over sixteen inches in length, 

 and they have become so tame that (hey 

 will seize a finger and allow Mr. Camp- 

 bell to lift them in that way. The sight 

 of such a school of lx;auties is enough to 



make the blood of an angler tingle, but 

 lest any reader should plan to surrep- 

 tiously visit ifhe place for a morning's 

 sport, it had better be stated that this 

 pond is very well guarded with a net- 

 work of barbed wire fences. This pre- 

 caution Mr. Campbell took after a cou- 

 ple of boys paid a daybreak visit and 

 cleaned out the pond. The limpid wat- 

 ers of the little pond enframed in foliage 

 is a charming spot and a favorite place 

 of visit for the townspeople. 



In cultural methods, Mr. Campbell 

 follows much along the usual lines. He 

 raises all his own plants from seed, us- 

 ing hot water pipes instead of manure to 

 heat his hot bed. Beneath a bed of about 

 four and a half by ten feet he has forty 

 feet of piping, and uses no manure what- 

 ever. By this method he finds that it 

 is not necessary to sow the seed so 

 early, as four or five days is sufficient 

 to bring it up. When the writer visited 

 the garden, about the middle of May, 

 all the first sowing had been transplanted 

 into cold frames and another lot of seed 

 imbedded in the soil. 



Last year Mr. Camplaell tried an ex- 

 periment with some gladioli, leaving 

 them in the ground all winter. Much 

 to his surpri.se they furnished the finest 

 bloom he had and won first prize at the 

 society's flower show. 



Sweet peas are grown very success- 

 fully without using the trench method. 

 The ground is treated with a generous 

 dressing of well-rotted manure and the 

 seeds planted in single rows and at or- 

 dinary depth. Dead boughs are used 



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