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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



square were this year beautified by tasteful flower 

 beds. 



The action of the society in offering prizes for 

 cottage gardens, flower and vegetable, and for the 

 best kept lawns and boulevards, was a happy 

 thought and excited much interest in the city. A 

 similar movement under the patronage of Her 

 Excellency Lady Minto proved most successful in 

 Ottawa, and their is little doubt the example thus 

 set by Ottawa and Woodstock will be followed by 

 other cities and towns throughout the country. 

 The annual flower exhibition was successful. 

 There were a larger number of entries than usual, 

 and the classification and artistic display showed 

 an improvement upon that of former years. Al- 

 though the attendance of the public generally was 

 not as large as it should have been considering the 

 character of the exhibition, there were present 

 many representative citizens who showed a keen 

 interest in the work of the society, and several of 

 them addressed the meeting aud assisted in the 

 presentation of prizes to the successful competitors 

 in the garden and flower competitions 



One of the monthly meetings of the Society took 

 the form of an open air or "garden meeting" on 

 the grounds of the President, and it is hoped that 

 there may be similar meetings in future upon the 

 invitation of other members of the society. 



An influential committee was appointed during 

 the year to report upon the further beautifying of 

 the city parks, lawns, boulevards and streets, but 

 owing to the lateness of the season it was not able 

 to report. Your directors are of the opinion that 

 this committee, by seeking co-operation with the 

 city authorities, could enlarge its usefulness in the 

 direction suggested. 



Your secretary attended the annual meeting of 

 the Provincial Horticultural Society and was again 

 honored by being selected representative of this 

 district in which capacity his usefulness to this 

 society is enhanced. 



All of which is respectively submitted, 



G. R. PaTTULLO, J. S. SCARFF, 



President. Secretary. 



London.— The Directors of the London Horti- 

 cultural Society bag to present their second annual 

 report. 



D uring the year 1901 they held eight meetings 

 for the transaction of the business of the society. 

 Two public meetings were also held in addition to 

 the annual meeting on January 9th. At the first 

 of these, on the nth, of February, a lecture was 

 given in the large assembly room of the Normal 

 School by Dr. William Saunders, of Ottawa, dir- 

 ector of the experimental farms of the Dominion. 

 His subject was "Plants, Shrubs and Trees for 

 the adornment of the Home," illustrated with a 

 large series of beautiful lantern pictures. Not- 

 withstanding the severity of the weather there was 

 a large attendance of members and other residents 

 of the city who showed a gratifying interest in the 

 subject of the evening. 



The second public meeting was held in the Audi- 

 torium of the Y. M. C. A. building on the evening 

 of May 3rd. The Rev. Dr. Bethune gave an add- 

 ress on "Common insects injurious to garden 

 flowers, fruits and vegetables," illustrated with 



colored diagrams. Mr. Wm. Gammage was also 

 to have spoken, but was prevented by indisposition 

 from doing so. Vocal and instrumental music was 

 very kindly supplied by Mrs. Gillies, Miss Brown 

 and Miss Templeton. At the close of the proceed- 

 ings the plants from the Ontario Fruit Growers' 

 Association were distributed to the members, viz., 

 the Anthony Waterer Spiraea and the Cumberland 

 Black-cap Raspberry. 



In addition to these meetings, the members were 

 invited to attend the proceedings at the annual 

 convention of the Canadian Horticultural Associ- 

 ation, which was held in London on the 5th and 

 6th of August. Papers were read and addresses 

 given by several of the leading florests of the 

 Dominion; an address was also given by Dr. 

 Bethune, one of our members, on the insects injur- 

 ious to greenhouse plants. Through the liberality 

 of many citizens of London, our society was 

 enabled to entertain the delegates at a luncheon 

 at Springbank, preceded by a ride through the 

 principal parts of the city in a trolley car hand- 

 somely decorated for the occasion with plants and 

 flowers by Mr. Wm. Gammage. 



An invitation was also extended to our members 

 to attend the 38th annual meeting of the Entomo- 

 logical society of Ontario, which was held here on 

 the 13th and 14th of November. A con?;iderable 

 number availed themselves of the opportunity of 

 hearing ths interesting address at the public meet- 

 ing at the Normal School. 



Two highly successful flower shows were held 

 during the summer. The first, in the City Hall, 

 took place on the 26th and 27th of June, and was 

 very well attended. The display of flowers was 

 remarkably fine and .showed a decided advance 

 upon the June show of the preceding year. The 

 second exhibition was held in Cronyn Hall on the 

 6th and 7th of August, being the same time as the 

 Convention of the Canadian Horticultural Associ- 

 ation. Though the actual number of figures ex- 

 hibited may not have been as large as at the 

 August show in 1900, there was a unanimous 

 igreement that in excellence of quality, beauty 

 and variety it was the best show that we have yet 

 held. The professional florists attending the 

 Convention stated that in their opinion it was one 

 of the best exhibits of flowers from almost every 

 point of view that it had been their pleasure to 

 inspect. It would, indeed, have been difficult any- 

 where to have surpassed in excellence the petunias 

 and gladioli that were exhibited, to say nothing 

 of other kinds. We were fortunate in obtaining 

 he use of Cronyn Hall, which proved admirably 

 adapted to the purpose, enabling the flowei s to be 

 satisfactorily arranged and affording all that could 

 be desired as regards light and ventilation. While 

 it would hardly be fair to select a few names for 

 special mention from among the nearly forty con- 

 tributors of flowers, it is only just to refer to the 

 trouble taken by Mr. Gammage in filling up the 

 platform at the end or the hall with a beautiful 

 and tastefully arranged collection of potted plants 

 and flowers, which added very much to the ap- 

 pearance of the general display. A word may 

 also be said regarding the tableful of fine flowers 

 sent from the Woodland Cemetery. It is much to 

 be regretted that about one hundred of our mem- 

 bers sent no contribution of flowers. We earnestly 



