February, 1908 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



33 



inch pots, and potted firmly in rather 

 heavy soil. Cuttings may be taken 

 from these plants in from three to 

 ive weeks. 



[A few tuberous-rooted begonias may 

 put in moss or sand to start them 

 before potting. They are easily 

 mdled and give great satisfaction. 



FORCING TWIGS AND BRANCHES 



Much pleasure and interest can be 

 had by forcing into bloom a few twigs 

 and branches in the window garden. 

 Cut a few twigs of forsythia, Japanese 

 quince, lilac, dogwood, maple, elm, 

 willow, alder and the various fruits, 

 such as pear, apple, peach, plum, 



cherry or currants. Put them in 

 vases of water in a sunny window. 

 For the larger twigs and branches, large 

 jars are better than vases. Change 

 the water every three or four days, 

 and keep it sweet by placing a small 

 piece of charcoal in the jar. The 

 twigs must be cut clean and slanting. 



How a Horticultural Society May Succeed" 



Rev. A. H. Scott. M.A., PertH, Ontaric 



HOW to expend to the best advant- 

 age the funds at the disposal of 

 horticulture in Ontario, is a sub- 

 ject which, as it appears to me, no one 

 person should assume to 

 treat exhaustively. We 

 know in part. Condi- 

 tions vary. Some of our 

 money is in the local 

 treasuries. Some of it 

 is in the hands of the 

 Government. Some of 

 it is in private hands, 

 ready for use when 

 friends of the garden 

 and appreciators of the 

 soil shall have influence 

 sufficient to open the 

 doorS for a larger knowl- 

 edge of nature's opera- 

 tions. But if we are 

 disposed to listen to 

 what others have done, 

 and if others will think 

 well of our well-meant 

 endeavors ; moreover, if 

 with good judgment and 

 high purpose a growing 

 number of us will sug- 

 gest, and follow up sug- 

 gestions with patient en- 

 deavor, there is no rea- 

 son why this favored 

 province, in this western 

 world, should not soon 

 be a great deal more 

 like a well-kept garden 

 ,han it is to-day. 



Let me proceed 

 'hrough a concrete in- 

 stance. The horticul- 

 tural society of Perth is 

 desirous of being a helper 

 in the horticultural ca^se of Canada. 

 You know of that phase in our make-up 

 which disposes us -to think well of our 

 own. Now, in my spot in Ontario, we 

 have a pride in clean streets. We glory 

 in overhanging trees. We advocate 

 well-kept lawns and good gardens. About 

 our premises in summer you mav notice 

 the product of intelligent cultivation, 

 and if you visit us in winter we will show 

 vou something that is rewarding in the 

 indoor culture. A part of our pleasure 



* A portion of an .iddress given at last convention of 

 I lie Ontario Horticultural Association, 



is the result, I believe, of a certain ex- 

 penditure for the bulbs and shrubs that 

 reach us through the Perth Horticultural 

 Societv. 



in some measure by attachment to Him 

 through whose grace and power the dead 

 are to rise again; in some measure, too, 

 out of respect for the memory of the 



m 



The City BeautifuF Demands the Adornment of ^Church Surroundings 



Tlie^cut illustrates the garden of .St. Sulpice, Montreal, 



It soon became impressed upon our 

 members that they were scarcely jus- 

 tifying their horticultural existence by 

 confining that attention to the cultiva- 

 tion of those niceties which were largely 

 for their own personal or household use. 

 So they looked about and attention was 

 fixed upon the places where main' 

 pioneers in the Perth district were sleep- 

 ing. A new piece of land had been pur- 

 chased for a general cemetery, and when 

 the community began to bury its dead 

 in the large place, the old grounds came 

 to be neglected. Prompted, no doubt 



departed, and in great measure by that 

 sense of propriety which is shocked to 

 see the stone wall of a sacred place 

 broken down, and mounds that should 

 be putting forth green grass grown over 

 with nettles, our society contributed out 

 of its own funds and added to those 

 through personal solicitation among the 

 townspeople, with the result that the 

 old burial grounds belonging to the 

 Presbyterians, Anglicans, Methodists 

 and Roman Catholics, have been made 

 new. Perhaps no expenditure has given 

 more satisfaction to our members and to 



