January, 1909 



THE CANADIAN H O R T I C U L T U R I S 1 



17 



About Queen Victoria Park 



Editor, The Canadian Horticulturist: 

 —Surely the Ontario Government is not 

 going to allow politics in any way to in- 

 fluence the appointment of a Parks Com- 

 missioner or Superintendent for Queen Vic- 

 toria Park! That would be a calamity. 

 There should be a general superintendent, 

 who would have charge of the work and 

 oversight of things in general, and also one 

 of the Taest landscape architects that can 

 be procured. Should the latter's time not 

 be fully occupied in Queen Victoria Park, 

 there are other public grounds owned by 

 the government that need the attention of 

 such a man. The government should have 

 an Al landscape architect in its employ- 

 ment, who would lay out and make plans 

 and specifications of any grounds for any 

 city or town who might want such services. 



The possibilities of this Queen Victoria 

 Park are very great. Few realize its impor- 

 tance and possibilities. The situation is 

 unique. The park is visited by tens of 

 thousands of tourists every year from all 

 parts of the world. It should be made a 

 model, not so much in fine derail, as in 

 general lay-out and planting of trees and 

 shrubs for landscape effect. 



While the shrubbery is very fine (what 

 there is of it), there are not the varieties 

 there that there should be, neither are there 

 many varieties of trees. Both trees and 

 shrubs should be the leading features of 

 this park. Highland Park, Rochester, N. Y., 

 has some 1,400 varieties of shrubs in it. 

 Why should not Queen Victoria Park have 

 quite as many? Every tree, native and for- 

 eign, that will stand the climate should be 

 there. 



When such cities as Chicago, New York 

 and Detroit, can spend 50 to 60 cents per 

 head of population per annum on their 



parks, park- ways and boulevards, surely 

 the wealthy province of Ontario should 

 spend a few hundred thousand dollars on a 

 national park. Queen Victoria Park should 

 be made one of the most attractive features 

 for visitors to Niagara Falls. — John S. 

 Pearce, London. Ont. 



Re Queen Victoria Park 



Editor, The Canadian Horticulturist: 

 — Your editorials in recent issues are right 

 to the point. Owing to the favoraWe cli- 

 matic conditions, Victoria, on Vancouver 

 Island, and Niagara Falls, Ontario, seem to 

 be the best spots in the country for botanic 

 gardens or, at least, for horticultural gar- 

 dens — the one for the Pacific half of Can- 

 ada and the other for the Atlantic half. 

 The writer has never visited Victoria, but 

 believes that there is something of the sort 

 already there. It would be interesting if 

 one of the correspondents of The Canadian 

 Horticulturist would give some descrip- 

 tion of these gardens and also something 

 about the management of them. Mr. 

 Roderick Cameron, before leaving Queen 

 Victoria Park, at Niagara Falls, for Toronto, 

 did good work on these lines, and had col- 

 lected there a most interesting collection of 

 herbaceous plants, trees and shrubs, prob- 

 ably the best, if not the largest, collection 

 in the country. 



From current reports it is to be feared 

 that this collection has sadly deteriorated 

 during this year, an effect of the sinister 

 workings of politics, the introduction of 

 which into these matters must be deeply 

 lamented by all interested in horticulture. 

 The politicians possibly are unaware of the 

 mischief done, but if so no time should he 

 lost by the horticulturists of the country in 

 acquainting them with the facts of the case. 



The best man in the country should have 



charge of this magnificent park (Queen 

 Victoria). The "best man" will have no 

 time and most likely no inclination either 



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