KINCARDINE. 



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short-lived. I will only name the oaks as 

 being especially worthy trees, and ones that 

 will never bring regret. A few really rare 

 plants will increase the interest in your place 

 wonderfully. Such beautiful things as the 

 yellow wood, gingko, Sophora, and Japanese 

 varnish tree are not difficult to obtain, yet 

 they are not common. 



VINES. 



This paper has dealt with waste places in 

 a rather broad sense. There are many lit- 

 tle places that would seem to come more 

 strictly under that heading that I have not 

 mentioned. There may be an old stump of 

 a tree which would be beautified if a vine 

 were allowed to clamber over it. An un- 

 usual piece of swampy ground could be 

 made beautiful by planting in it some flags 

 ancJ Japanese iris, mallows, coreopsis, and 



even many swamp-loving shrubs like the 

 common elderberry, white fringe and swamp 

 magnolia. 



The walls of your house would likely 

 be very much improved by a clinging vine. 

 The fence along the front of your property 

 could have a few vines placed at some of the 

 posts. Many similar places will suggest 

 themselves to you when you give it thought, 

 and it is unnecessary for me to attempt fur- 

 ther detail. My greatest fear is that we men 

 of business allow waste places to locate in 

 our minds. We think of utility, what we 

 can plant here for profit and there for profit. 

 Everything must pay in dollars and cents. 

 These waste places I hope my hearers will 

 plant up at once with thoughts of the beau- 

 ties of nature. All else that I have sug- 

 gested will then be carried out in natural 

 course. 



KINCAEDINE 



EXTRACT FROM SECRETARY BARKER'S 

 ANNUAL REPORT — AFFILIATION PAYS. 



YOUR Secretary regards our affiliation 

 with The Ontario Fruit Growers' As- 

 sociation as of so much importance and ad- 

 vantage to the Horticultural Societies of 

 Ontario that it would indicate unpardonable 

 ingratitude on our part were we to omit a 

 special reference to that most useful organi- 

 zation which year after year takes us into 

 its confidence and sends experienced instruc- 

 tors to teach the improved methods of beau- 

 tifying our homes as well also useful lessons 

 on horticulture and floriculture, the bene- 

 fit of which cannot be estimated from a 

 benefit of which cannot be estimated from a 

 monetary standpoint. We feel sure that 

 the visits made to us by the Ontario Fruit 

 Growers' Association during the six years 



of our existence as a society cannot but be 

 remembered with a great deal of pleasure. 

 Who amongst us does not frequently call to 

 mind the pleasing instructions we received 

 from them all, and especially from Mes- 

 dames Rose and Maddock, of the Royal 

 City of Guelph, and from Miss Torrance, of 

 Chatauguay, Quebec. The last named lady 

 visited us in the spring of 1902, accompanied 

 by Rev. E. B. Stevenson, of Jordan Station, 

 vJ'ecognized as one of the leading Canadian 

 authorities on that most delicious fruit, the 

 strawberry, and its culture. That gentle- 

 man's address on how to grow large straw- 

 berries and how to successfully treat the 

 bulbs of the hyacinth so as to ensure a pro- 

 fusion of bloom all through the winter sea- 



