OUR HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 



A GOOD FLOWER SHOW. 



1"AHE flower show held in the town hail, 

 Kincardine, was a complete success. 



It does one good to spend a day or even- 

 ing amongst such an exhibit of plants and 

 fruits as the people of Kincardine had the 

 day and evening of Wednesday last in the 

 town hall, and the directors of the Horticul- 

 tural Society may feel pleased at the many 

 expressions of appreciation and praise that 

 came from the lips of most of those who 

 saw the exhibit. 



True, our large towns and cities may be 

 able to have much larger displays of flow- 

 ers and fruit, but it is doubtful if any had 

 greater variety, or a finer collection of heal- 

 thy plants. 



The cut flowers were magnificent and 

 many of the boquets showed superior me- 

 chanical skill and taste in the pleasing 

 blending of color and form. 



To enumerate the different kinds of flow- 

 ers and fruit would require more space han 

 is at our disposal, for the many hundreds of 

 beautiful flowers in pots or vases to enu- 

 merate would necessitate a systematic cata- 

 logue even to name. 



Asters of many kinds graced the tables in 

 the center in great quantities, whilst dahlias, 

 gladioli, stocks, salpiglossis, sweet peas and 

 pansies made a display of color that could 

 not but be admired, whilst plants of less 

 note, but equally beautiful, of nearly every 

 common kind, and many rare, forced many 

 to stop and admire. 



The fruit, most of which was shown by 

 Mrs. A. Patterson, A. Clinton and 

 Rev. Pomeroy, was a center of attrac- 

 tion. Mrs. J. Hiles and J. S. Gadd ex- 

 hibited some well laden branches of plums, 

 and John McKay a monster head of sun- 

 flower. 



The pot plants were good, and must have 

 been a great labor to the collectors. Hand- 

 some vases with precious plants were g^ven 

 cheerfully for exhibition, and we learn that 

 all were collected and returned without a 

 break or a mistake. 



There were some very handsome begonias 

 of very many kinds, from the large leaved 

 Rex to the most tiny of the race; grand 

 tuberous begonias vieing in beauty with the 

 fuschia; gloxinias, of the most delicate 

 coloring. 



Showy spikes of Campanula attracted 

 much attention, as did also agapanthus and 

 two plants shown by Mrs. Shunk were 

 beautiful and rare, for their names we could 

 not learn. One was said by those who 

 know, to be Eden's Bower, very peculiar 

 one sided flower, with foliage resembling a 

 fuschia, but here it looks like specializing 

 too much, and tc^ avoid leaving out any, 

 must say that every flower and plant shown 

 was well worthy of the grower's name be- 

 ing attached. 



Music was supplied on piano and by brass 

 band. Addresses were deUvered by the 

 mayor and others. — The Reporter. 



PAPER HUNTING 



One of the most exciting of all riding games is 

 paper hunting, or following a trail made by dropping 

 pieces of paper. It can be made as dangerous as 

 steeplechasing or no more so than an ordinary gallop 

 over the fields. The danger is in the fences to be 

 ridden over. There is no limit to the pace but the 



speed of the leading horse and the necessity of keep- 

 ing the trail. The "hare" as the man a-horseback 

 who lays the trail is called, is expected to foil his 

 pursuers, the "hounds," as often as he can by the 

 arts of the fox, or by his own ingenuity, only restrict- 

 ed by certain rules of the game. — Lountry Life in 

 America. 



