December, 1914 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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The January issue of The Canadian Hor- 

 ticulturist will devote special attention to 

 the use of fertilizers. This will be the first 

 Fertilizer Number that we have ever pub- 

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If the press would point out the good 

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The Annual Rally of the Horticultural Societies 



of Ontario 



THE big day of the year among those 

 who are interested in the work of the 

 horticultural societies of Ontario, is 

 the occasion of the annual conven- 

 tion of the Ontario Horticultural Associa- 

 tion. This year delegates were present as 

 usual from all parts of the province, from 

 Hawkesbury, in the east, to Windsor in the 

 south-west, and from Fort VVilliam in the 

 extreme west. The convention was held 

 in Toronto on November 11 and 12. As 

 usual many of the delegates were ladies. 

 The sessions proved interesting through- 

 out. 



President J. H. Bennett, of Barrie, open- 

 ed the proceedings with a brief presiden- 

 tial address after which the treasurer, C. 

 A. Hesson, of St. Catharines, presented 

 the annual report. This showed total re- 

 ceipts of $247.44, composed of a balance 

 from the year before of $130.78, and of fees 

 from horticultural societies for the past 

 year of $115.00. The expenditures amount- 

 ed to $79.48, including affiliation fee with 

 the American Civic Association, $5.00 ; 

 stationerv, $12.45; postage and exchange, 

 $2.00, and $50.00 paid to the secretary, as 

 well as $5.00 for his assistant, and $5.00 

 for the housekeeper of the Parliament 

 Buildings, who looked after the convention 

 room's. This rei)ort does not look as if the 

 Association was doing very much with its 

 funds to advance the cause of horticulture, 

 but there was no discussion of it and the 

 convention seemed satisfied. The balance 

 on hand at the close of the year was $167.90. 

 The enterprising secretary of the Asso- 

 ciation, Mr. J. Lockie Wilson, who is the 

 superintendent of horticultural societies for 

 the province, presented a voluminous re- 

 port. It showed that five new societies had 

 been incorporated during the past year, 

 viz., Carleton Place, Dr>den, Newcastle, 

 Strectsville and Westboro. Only one socie- 

 ty, Vankleek Hill, had failed to make its re- 

 turn. The membership of the St. Thomas 

 Society last year was 1,100, an increase of 

 392, Stratford 500, an increase of 313, St. 

 Catharines 995, an increase of 270, Wind- 

 sor 406, an increase of 172, Brantford 372, 

 am increase of 170, Walkerville 197, an in- 

 crease of 120, Berlin 285, an increase of 100, 

 Hamilton 618, an increase of 79, Winches- 

 ter 146, an increase of 66. Most of the 

 superintendent's repott was composed of re- 

 ports from individual societies and showed 

 the interesting work they had accomplish- 

 ed during the year. 



While the con.vention was in session a 

 magnificent vase of Wm. Turner chrysan- 

 themums, grown by the Dale Estate, was 

 brought in and placed on the table. It was 

 a revelation to all present of the perfec- 

 tion to which these flowers can be grown. 



A feature of the convention was the pre- 

 sence of Ontario's recently appointed prem- 

 ier, Hon. W. H. Hearst, who gave a brief 

 address, as did also Hon. James Duif, and 

 Hon. F. McDiarmid, Ontario's new minis- 

 ter of Public Works. Rev. Mr. Scott, of 

 Perth, who was acquainted with Hon. Mr. 

 Hearst .when he was a young man, made a 

 most pleasing speech setting forth his early 

 acquaintance and impression of Ontario's 

 new premier. 



Letters of regret for their inability to be 

 present were read from J. Horace McFar- 

 lane and R. B. Watrous, the president and 

 secretary respectively of the American Civic 

 .'\ssociation. 



EDUC.\TI0NAI, ADDRE8SB8 



A feature of the convention' as usual 

 were a number of splendid addresses of an 

 educational character. Mr. Dunbar, super- 

 intendent of the famous parks of the city 

 of Rochester, gave an address and showed 

 a large number of slides illustrating scenes 

 in Rochester's city parks. In these parks 

 are grown evergreens from all parts of the 

 world. The speaker stated that he be- 

 lieves that they grow all the known varie- 

 ties of crab apples. Views of Japanese crab 

 apples in bloom and of Chinese magnolia 

 planted down the centre of a city street were 

 very fine. On what is now known as Lilac 

 Sunday the parks are crowded by thousands 

 of people. 



Mr. James M. Bryson, of Moore Park, 

 Toronto, gave a lengthy and splendid ad- 

 dress, also illustrated by stereopticon 

 views, on the subject, "The Best Varieties 

 of Roses for Amateur Gardens." .^s there 

 are eleven acres of roses in Moore Park, 

 where some fifteen thousand roses are 

 grown, an idea of Mr. Bryson's qualifica- 

 tions to deal with this subject may be gain- 

 ed. An extract from this address appears 

 elsewhere in this issue. Further extracts 

 will be published later. 



Mrs. .'Vda L. Potts gave a valuable ad- 

 dress on the subject, "Gardens for School 

 Children," in which she advocated having 

 the study of nature placed on the curicu- 

 lum. Discussions of nature subjects could 

 be conducted in connection with gardens 

 (Continii.ed on page 299) 



