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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



mayor of the corporation. He has been 

 secretary of the Board of Trade and Agri- 

 cultural Society, and is now secretary-trea- 

 surer of the Horticultural Society. Mr. 

 Scarff was chief engineer of the fire brigade 

 at the time it rendered assistance during the 

 big Ingersoll fire, and he can look back 

 upon a life associated with most of the pub- 

 lic movements during the last third of a cen- 

 tury." 



"Yes," said Mr. Scarff, as we drove along 

 a country road,. "I have been here for fifty 

 years, and have always had my own way to 

 make. I made my first capital about thirty- 



must take opportunities which they neglect. 

 Now Mr. Scarff has reached a position ot 

 wealth and affluence, and he could point 

 with pardonable pride to a street Hned with 

 comfortable homes placed there by his capi- 

 tal. 



WOODSTOCK FLOWER LOVERS 



IT was in 1885 the first Horticultural So- 

 ciety was formed in Woodstock, but 

 but for eight years it had disbanded, when, 

 in 1895, we were instrumental in the forma- 

 tion of an affiliated society, of which the suc- 

 cess is most worked. Mr. Scarff has been 



Fig. 2454. CuuMRY Roaus About Woodstock. 



five years ago, when, aside from my trade, I 

 rented about one-fifth of an acre of ground 

 and raised plants of cabbage, cauliflower and 

 celery for sale. I was successful in dispos- 

 ing them direct to private homes in the 

 town for their gardens, and actually banked 

 $235 off that one-fifth of an acre in one sea- 

 son. This encouraged me to do a consid- 

 erable amount of market gardening, the 

 produce of which I always sold direct to 

 consumers, and thus got full value." 



How true it is, that to excel others we 



secretary almost from the beginning, and 

 upon him has therefore devolved a great 

 share of the responsibility. 



It was with great pleasure that we re- 

 sponded to the invitations of those past presi- 

 dents to go over their private gardens, viz., 

 Mr. T. H. Parker, Mr. D. W. Karn, Mr. G. 

 R. Patullo, the latter of whom has been re- 

 elected for 1902. Mr. Parker's cold grapery 

 is a success, and there were still hanging fine 

 bunches of Black Hamburg, Rose Chas- 

 selas, Chasselas Marque, and Muscat Ham- 



