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LAWN AND GARDEN COMPETITIONS 



Prof. H. L. Hutt, formerly of the Guelpb 

 .\Kricultural ColleK*', in presentinjc the re- 

 port of the committee on lawn and garden 

 competitions, took advantage of the occa- 

 sion to announce that he \v;is no long^er 

 connected with the Agricultural CoUege.his 

 resignation having been asked for by the 

 Minister of Agriculture, who had declined 

 to give him a satisfactory reason for his 

 action. Prof. Hutt stated that he had laid 

 the matter before Premier Hearst. The 

 committee in their report described the 

 methods of conducting l;iwn and garden 

 competitions that have been tried by differ- 

 ent horticultural societies in the province, 

 and gave helpful suggestions for the con- 

 duct of such work. Further mention of this 

 work will be published later. 



Mr. M. L. Lay, of Walkerton, gave a 

 practical and interesting address on the 

 "Culture of .Sweet Peas." An extract from 

 this address is published elsewhere in this 

 issue and the balance of the address will 

 be published later. 



Mr. Bertrand H. Farr, of Wyomissing, 

 Pa., one of the most successful growers of 

 perennials in the United States, gave a 

 lengthy address in which he dealt with stic- 

 cession of bloom and varieties of paeonies 

 and perennials that have given him the best 

 satisfaction. We expect to publish extracts 

 from this address later. 



THE APPLE OfR NATIONAL DISH 



A suggestion contained in the presi- 

 dent's address that the association should 

 endorse the proposal to have the apple se- 

 lected as the national dish of Canada was 

 heartily endorsed by the convention in the 

 form of a motion moved by Mr. W. T. Ma- 

 coun, the Dominion Horticulturist, and sec- 

 onded by H. B. Cowan, President of The 

 Canadian Horticultural .Association. The 

 adoption of this report suggested the idea 

 that steps might be taken also to select a 

 national flower. Several different flowers 

 were suggested and a resolution was car- 

 ried authorizing the directors of the Asso- 

 ciation to consider the advisability of hav- 

 ing the paeony selected as the national 

 flower. 



The directors were requested to make ar- 

 rangements, if found practical, for conduct- 

 ing excursions of members of the local hor- 

 ticultural societies to the parks of Roches- 

 ter, N.Y., and Ottawa. 



The members approved of having the 

 .Association affiliate with the National Coun- 

 cil of Women, and Mrs. R. L. Brierton was 

 elected its representative to that Associa- 

 tion. 



Mr. T. D. Dockray, of Toromto, led in a 

 helpful discussion of the best methods of 

 conducting flower shows. He stated that 

 they were useful for the purpose of stimu- 

 lating an interest in horticulture and in- 

 creasing the membership of societies. The 

 arrangements should be left in the hands 

 of a show committee. 



Messrs. J. H. Bennett, Barrie, Ont , J 

 Cavers, Oakville, and Prof. H. Thompson, 

 of Toronto University, were appointed a 

 committee to act in conjunction with an al- 

 ready existing committee appointed by the 

 Canadian Horticultural Association, to take 

 steps to see that a National Plant Registry 

 be established at as early a date as possi- 

 ble. It wa,s suggested that the committee 

 should correspond with the authorities of 

 the Ceintral Experimental Farm to ask that 

 a qiialified member of its staff be appointed 

 to aid the committee in all wavs possible 



Mr. F. E. Buck, of Ottawa, presented the 

 report of the committee on Names of Vari- 

 eties. The report this year dealt with an- 



