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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



December, 1913 



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Ranked at the Very Top 



DAVID Rankin was a big farmer and he knew 

 his business. He owned the largest corn farm in the 

 world, about 35,ooo acres down in Missouri. He 

 devoted his life to the pleasant study and practice of right farming, 

 and he succeeded mightily, for he made $4,000,000 in tlie business of 

 farming. This is what David Rankin said about the manure spreader: 

 "It is the most efficient money-maker on the place." 



It's war^i praise to be ranked above all other farm machines, but it 

 is in keeping with what all the agricultural world has been recognizing. 

 Soils rebel when crop after crop is taken from them, without return of 

 fertilizer. Witness the abandoned, worn-out farms of New England. 

 Return every bit of manure to the soil by the spreader method. The 

 I H C manure spreader will save you much disagreeable, hard labor, 

 will spread evenly, and will make one ton of manure go as far as two 

 tons spread by hand. 



I H C Manure Spreaders 



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are built to suit you, to do best work for the buyer in every case, to 

 convince him that he has made the wisest purchase. Every detail in 

 the construction has a purpose for which it was made after thorough 

 tests and experiment. They have the maximum of strength and 

 endurance, and their construction bristles with advantages. 



You will find all styles and sizes in the I H C spreader line. They 

 will cover the ground with a light or heavy coat, as you choose, but 

 always evenly, up hill or down. There are high and low machines, 

 with steel frames, endless or reverse aprons, but always giving best 

 possible service. Tractive power is assured by position of the rear 

 wheels well under the box, carrying nearly three-fourths of the load, 

 and by wide rimmed wheels with Z-shaped lugs. 

 These and many other things will interest and convince you if you 

 look the I H C spreader line over at the local agent's. There is 

 one for your exact needs. Read the catalogues that the agent 

 has for you. 



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Ontario Horticulturists Meet 



(C'on/inue<l from ;>;t7) 



Dr. F. E. Be<nnett, the energetic presi- 

 dent of the St. Thomas Horticultural So- 

 ciety, which has the larj^est membership of 

 any society in the piovince, gave many 

 practical suKrgestions on the building up of 

 the membership of local societies. His 

 society has held monthly flower shows in 

 store windows in the town. The shows 

 were always held on Saturdavs. In. this 

 way the public was reached. The following 

 day many of the exhibits were distributed 

 in the hospitals. The society has given 

 each member a rose or a shrub, a dozem 

 bulbs, and a year's subscription to The 

 Canadian Horticulturist. This fall sixteen 

 thousand bulbs were given away and nine- 

 teen thousand more imported at cost price. 

 A fuller report of this address will be pub- 

 lished later. 



OFFICERS F.LECTED 



The following officers were elected : 

 President, J. H. Benn/ett, Barrie ; first vice- 

 president. Rev. G. W. Tebbs, Orangeville ; 

 second vice-president. Dr. F. E. Bemnett, 

 St. Thomas ; treasurer, C. A. Hesson, St. 

 Catharines ; secretary and editor, J. Lockie 

 Wilson, Toronto. Hon. directors: W. T. 

 Macoun, Ottawa, Prof. H. L. Hutt, Guelph ; 

 W. B. Burgoyne, St. Catharines. Directors: 

 Dictrict No. 1, F. B. Bowden, Hawkes- 

 bury; District No. 2, R. E. Kent, King- 

 ston ; District No. 3, Geo. Vickers, Barrie ; 

 District No. 4, T. D. Dockray, Toronto; 

 District No. 5, Jas. Ogilvie, Hamilton; 

 District No. 6, T. Cottle, Clinton ; District 

 No. 7, R. W. Brooks, Bramtford ; District 

 No. 8, W. W. Gammage, London ; District 

 No. 9, H. J. McKay, Windsor. .Auditors: 

 J. S. Moorcroft, Bowmanville, Mrs. R. B. 

 Potts, Hamilton. Representatives to Amer- 

 ican Civic .Association : J. Lockie Wilson, 

 Rev. A. H. Scott, W. B. Burgoyne. Repre- 

 sentative to Canadian National Exhibition : 

 W. J. Diamond. Belleville. Committee on 

 Names and Varieties : H. J. Moore, Nia- 

 gara Falls (chairmam) ; Miss M. E. Black- 

 lock, Toronto; J. Cavers, Oakville ; R. 

 Cameron, Toronto : W. Hunt, Guelph, Prof. 

 H. L. Hutt, Guelph; W. T. Macoun, Ot- 

 tawa; Ed. Mepsted, Ottawa; T. D-flworth, 

 Weston; F. E. Buck, Ottawa (secretary). 



A Welcome Guide 



The attention of the many visitors in the 

 Horticultural Exhibition at Toronto, On- 

 tario, was directed to a fine display of plans 

 for landscape and gardening made by Max 

 Stolpe at Hamilton, Ontario. 



This gentleman, ex-superintendent of the 

 Royal Gardening Institute, and possessor of 

 .ijold and silver medals, has for the last 

 couple of years been engaged in work in 

 this country, and has become one of the 

 foremost landscape architects of Canada. 

 Having practiced his science in Germany, 

 Austria and Switzerland for nearly twenty 

 years, the experience thus gained has made 

 him master of his profession. Landscape 

 architecture is not alone confining itself to 

 the evolution of large deserts and big bush- 

 es into a number of well designed parks. It 

 also deals with the beautifying of small 

 .gardens, lawns and boulevards, and in this 

 way appeals to every owner of property who 

 is trying to improve his estate and its sur- 

 roundings by planting trees and flowers_and 

 placing or arranging them in such a man- 

 ner as to become a treat for everybody's 

 eyes and an advantage to the life of the 

 plant itself. His advertisement will be a 

 welcome guide for all those who desire to 

 consult M. Stolpe or engage bis services. 



