7th February, A. D. 1895. 



ESSAYS 



BY 



PRACTICAL CULTIVATORS. 



Theme : — Practical Talks on Floriculture. 



O. B. Hadwen. The hour for which this meeting is called having 

 arrived, I will ask you to come to order. The subject this afternoon 

 is. Practical Talks on Floriculture : a subject which interests most 

 everyone. 



There is nothing more beautiful, nothing that can embellish our 

 homes, and our gardens, and our farms, so well as the display of 

 flowers. The interest has grown in late years far beyond what we 

 originally expected, so that now you can scarcely pass a single house 

 in the town or country, without seeing a display of flowers in the 

 windows, in the woods, or in the fields. Perhaps there is nothing 

 tliat gives more pleasure to all, than a good display. 



I am one who believes that the people who get the most out of 

 life have a fondness for flowers. Farmers can grow them. Everyone 

 can grow them, especially ladies ; they know more about flowers 

 than men. 



I know that sometimes when I go down to Boston and get some- 

 thing entirely new, and bring it home and plant it out, and then 

 when I get it nicely to going, I will ask my wife to come to look at 

 it, and she will say, "O yes, my mother had that more tlian fifty 

 years ago;" so old things become new. 



But the chair don't propose to take up the time of the audience, so 

 I will call upon Mr. Blake of Rochdale. 



WINDOW PLANTS. 



Fred. A. Hlakk. A few words to beginners on the culture of win- 

 dow plants. Two of the principal reasons of failure suggest their 

 own remedy, viz. : Dry atmosphere of rooms, over- and uuder-water- 



