March, 1908 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



67 



Horticultural Societies A.ct 



It is understood that at the present session 

 of the Ontario Legislature some important 

 amendments will be made to the Horticultural 

 Societies Act, along the lines recommended 

 at the last annual convention of the Ontario 

 Horticultural Association. In the address de- 

 livered by Mr. H. B. Cowan, managing editor 

 of The Canadian Horticulturist, it was 

 recommended that the Act be so changed that 

 the horticultural societies would be allowed 

 to hold their annual meetings during the first 

 week in November, instead of in January as 

 is now required. 



In this direction it was pointed out that 

 the enthusiasm of the work had not died out 

 in November, and more interest would be taken, 

 therefore, in the election of the ofiF.cers for 

 the following year's work. The election of 

 directors in November would enable them to 

 plan their work for the following year at an 

 early date. Another benefit derived would be 

 that the annual reports would be in the hands 

 of the Government about the first of the year, 

 enabling the society to receive their annual 

 grants early in the year, instead of late in the 

 summer, as has been the case heretofore. 



Another advantage recommended was that 

 the clause in the Act requiring that, on or be- 

 fore the first day of May, the officers of every 

 society shall send an afrdavit to the Depart- 

 ment in regard to the past year's work, should 

 be eliminated and embodied in the clause re- 

 quiring that the annual reports shall be sent 

 to the Government within one month after the 

 annual meeting of the society in January. A 

 third suggestion was that the clause requiring 

 tliat the special grant of S800 to the four 

 city societies, which is divided among them in 

 proportion to their membership during the 

 current year, shall be changed so that the 

 grant would be divided upon the basis of the 

 membership of the preceding year. 



These matters were discussed at the recent 

 convention, and the advantages recommended 

 were endorsed, and it is understood that Hon. 

 sL-lson Monteith will adopt the amendments 

 lo the Act accordingly. It is probable, also, 

 that the clause which restricts a society by 

 requiring that it shall not expend more than 

 one-third of its funds in any one line of work, 

 will be amended to read "not more than one- 

 half of its funds." 



At the time of the convention Mr. C. C. 

 James, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, gave 

 a very interesting address bearing on the 

 Horticultural Societies Act. He said, in his 

 address: "I do not know of anything definite 

 that is not workable. It would be most extra- 

 ordinary if a perfect act were to be worked out, 

 one that would not permit of any amendments. 

 The points brought out in discussion at this meet- 

 ing will be taken into consideration." He said, 

 also, that the societies must give good reasons for 

 wanting to know earlier what their grants are to 

 be, for as the question stood now, no good reason 

 had been given. It meant a radical change in 

 the basis of distribution of the S8,000. He re- 

 ferred to the one-third clause and said if they 

 wanted it out, he was quite willing to take it out, 

 >Ut it always seemed to him to be a clause we)rth 

 «eping in. One member .suggested that the 

 me-third clause be changed to one-half, and 

 James said that as far as the department 

 concerned, and as far as their relationship 



ith the present society was concerned, they 



e quite willing to leave that with the mem- 



to work out for themselves. He then re- 



id to the exhibition at St. Catharines, and 



id it would have been a most lamentable 



:eeding if any section of that act had been 



breed to prevent the holding of that exhibi- 



, for it was a rare treat. 



' KoTE — At the la*!t m'-rmTt before going to prers. we 

 l^ceived a c py ff the p" po^e*! amendrnenlc tn the 

 I'drticultural Societies Aet. The •■■iigge^tK'T's nierttr>ned 

 this art'c'e bave hecn adapted in full and will be 

 Itaced before the Legilature at an early date, -[utitor. 



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