MEN WHO HAVE SUCCEEDED. 



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treated last spring with this mixture, and 

 others treated with whale oil soap ; and 

 while none of the trees were completely 

 cleansed of scale the former were in better 

 condition than the latter. 



Mr. McNeill suggested the use of the 

 small agricultural boiler for individual farm- 

 ers who could not co-operate ; to this Mr. 

 Fisher assented, saying it could also be 

 done in a still smaller way in iron pots over 



an out-door fire, but of course would be much 

 slower and more expensive. 



When should it be applied ? Some one 

 asked. 



In early spring, said Mr. F'isher, usually 

 in April. It only needs to be applied once 

 a year, and of course it is not a suitable 

 spray for the foliage. If a summer remedy 

 is needed, an emulsion of crude petroleum 

 and water is recommended instead. 



MEN WHO HAVE SUCCEEDED 



JOHN CLAUDIUS LOUDON — THE FATHER OF 

 HORTICULTURAL JOURNALISM— LANDSCAPE GAR- 

 DENER — TRAVELER — JOURNALIST — AUTHOR. 



THE old Latin Proverb, '''Labor omnia 

 vincit" has been often quoted and 

 perhaps in no case is it more clearly 

 demonstrated than in the life of John Claudius 

 Loudon. There is no name more prominent in 



English horticultural literature than his, but 

 his fame was earned by the most intense study 

 and application. Now-a-days it seems the 

 fashion among many students to affect to de- 

 spise hard study, and to impress their 

 mates with how much they know with the 

 least application. Success is not so attain- 

 ed; it is only secured by hard persevering 

 labor. 



Born in 1782, the son of a farmer, he was 

 early encouraged in his tastes for gardening 

 by being apprenticed to a Mr. Dickson, 

 Nurseryman and " Planter " at Leith Walk, 

 Edinburgh. The time was most oppor- 

 tune, lor like the swinging of a pendulum, 

 the ideals of garden design were just ending 

 a great revolution, and turning from the 

 extreme of the formal or architectural style, 

 which had prevailed in England during the 

 early part of the 1 8th Century, to the landscape 

 gardening style, which gave more freedom 

 of conception, while adapting nature's best 

 examples to the park and garden. 



Mr. Loudon's work as a draughtsman of 

 estate and garden plans, brought him into 

 acquaintance with men of refinement and 

 education, such as Sir Joseph Banks, of 



