TKe Provincial Grants to Horticultural Societies 



THE accompanying table, that has been pre- 

 pared by Mr. H. B. Cowan, supt. of hort'l 

 societies for Ont., shows how the various 

 hort'l societies in the province would 

 have been affected by the new act governing 

 hort'l societies had they received their grants this 

 year on the same basis as they will receive their 

 grants next year. In the past the societies 

 have received practically fixed grants each 



year irrespective of the value of the work they 

 were doing. Societies where there were only a 

 few in a county received larger grants than 

 societies did where there were a number in a 

 county. Under the new act the grant of $8,000 

 (which is $1,.500 larger than the former grant, 

 owing to an anticipated increase in the num- 

 ber of societies) will be distributed on the fol- 

 lowing basis: $2,400 will be distributed among 



Society 



Av. Grant 

 1903-4-5 



Brantford 



Walkerton 



Millbrook 



Port Hope 



Bowmanville 



Port Elgin 



Tara 



Kincardine 



Paisley 



Chesley 



Orangeville 



Aylmer 



Springfield 



Windsor 



Cardinal 



Thornbury 



Owen Sound 



Diu-ham 



Cayuga 



Clinton 



Goderich 



Seaforth 



Lanark 



Oakville 



StirUng 



Deseronto 



Belleville 



Perth 



Smith's Falls 



Napanee 



Grimsby 



St. Catharines 



Strathroy 



Simcoe 



Port Dover 



Cobourg 



Tillsonburg 



Woodstock 



Brampton 



Mitchell 



Stratford 



Peterboro and Ashbumham . 



Picton 



Renfrew 



Midland 



OrilUa 



Barrie 



Collingwood 



Lindsay 



Elmira 



Waterloo 



Gait 



Hespeler 



Preston 



Niagara Falls. ; 



Elora and Salem 



Fergus 



Clifford 



Newmarket 



Hamilton 



Kingston 



Ottawa 



London . 



Toronto. 

 Guelph. . 



Av. Expen. Member- 

 1903-4-5 ship '05 



138.30 

 85.30 

 68.60 

 92.60 

 82.30 

 42.60 

 32.00 

 61.60 

 48.00 

 63.30 



119.60 

 74.60 

 62.60 



105.00 



140.00 

 31.60 

 .37.60 

 59.30 



104.00 

 78.00 

 78.60 

 61.00 

 81.30 

 .59.30 

 76.30 



100.00 



140.00 



125.30 

 99.30 



140.00 

 44.60 

 45.60 

 84.60 

 68.60 

 61.00 



140.00 

 48.30 

 61.00 



123.60 

 60.60 

 93.60 



115.00 

 78.30 



140.00 

 .52.00 

 60.30 

 71.00 

 71.30 

 73.30 

 50.60 



123.30 

 91.00 

 70.30 



102.00 

 52.30 

 41.60 

 42.30 

 75.30 

 61.30 



350.00 



140.00 



350.00 



140.00 



140.00 

 105.30 



132.00 

 200.00 

 113.00 

 195.00 

 160.00 

 106.00 

 95.00 

 209.00 

 164.00 

 178.00 

 196.00 

 296.00 

 32.00 

 419.00 

 197.00 

 85.00 

 97.00 

 154.00 

 185.00 

 172.00 

 236.00 

 199.00 

 201.00 

 99.00 

 112.00 

 91.00 

 236.00 

 240.00 

 233.00 

 130.00 

 102.00 

 229.00 

 225.00 

 108.00 

 119.00 

 184.00 

 138.00 

 168.00 

 172.00 

 166.00 

 162.00 

 189.00 

 103.00 

 263.00 

 117.00 

 163.00 

 201.00 

 211.00 

 148.00 

 100.00 

 246.00 

 175.00 

 116.00 

 149.00 

 77.00 

 58.00 

 83.00 

 351.00 

 135.00 



600.00 



354.00 



491.00 



152.00 



342.00 

 233.00 



52 



92 



54 



93 



89 



55 



58 



133 



101 



142 



107 



206 



137 



145 



73 



55 



83 



72 



104 



86 



74 



116 



104 



99 



52 



51 



52 



117 



125 



52 



76 



191 



140 



72 



59 



87 



65 



107 



96 



124 



125 



108 



82 



93 



69 



77 



112 



140 



110 



69 



152 



127 



74 



125 



55 



54 



66 



135 



85 



130 



191 



248 



120 



134 

 145 



Total 

 Grant 



$5,916.00 $11,992,001 6,622 



72.00 



113.00 



65.00 



112.00 



96.00 



62.00 



59.00 



132.00 



103.00 



122.00 



117.00 



193.00 



63.00 



220.00 



105.00 



54.00 



68.00 



88.00 



112.00 



100.00 



121.00 



122.00 



118.00 



76.00 



64.00 



54.00 



113.00 



138.00 



138.00 



71.00 



68.00 



161.00 



141.00 



69.00 



69.00 



105.00 



79.00 



106.00 



104.00 



111.00 



110.00 



115.00 



71.00 



139.00 



72.00 



93.00 



121.00 



135.00 



99.00 



65.00 



153.00 



116.00 



73.00 



105.00 



51.00 



43.00 



57.00 



189.00 



85.00 



287.00 



155.00 



211.00 



286.00 



318.00 



104.00 



190.00 



186.00 



137.00 



146.00 



Increase 



$7,196.00 



28.00 



26! 66 



14.00 

 20.00 

 27.00 

 71.00 

 55.00 

 59.00 



119 '66 



1.00 



115.00 



23 '66 

 31.00 

 29.00 

 8.00 

 22.00 

 43.00 

 61.00 

 37.00 

 17.00 



15.00 

 39.00 



24;66 



116.00 



57.00 



1.00 



8.00 



31! 00 

 45.00 



51.66 

 17.00 



20.00 

 33.00 

 50.00 

 64.00 

 26.00 

 15.00 

 30.00 

 25.00 

 3.00 

 3.00 



2.00 



15.00 



114.00 



24.00 



} 92.00 



71.00 



12.54.00 



I 154. 00 



I 183. 00 

 41.00 



Decrease 



$66 



35 



12 

 46 



27 



69 



35 



19 



00 



66 



00 



00 



00 

 00 

 00 



00 

 00 



00 



the societies in proportion to their total num- 

 ber of members during the preceding year; 

 $4,800 in proportion to the total amount ex- 

 pended by each society dining the preceding 

 year for horticultural purposes, and an extra 

 grant of $800 among the four city societies of 

 London, Hamilton, Toronto, and Ottawa, in 

 proportion to their number of members during 

 the current year. 



This year the societies will receive their 

 grants on the same basis as usual. The ac- 

 companying table has been prepared to give 

 the societies an idea of how their grants next 

 year are likely to be affected by the new act. 



It will be noticed that only a few societies 

 will suffer any decrease in their grants. Most 

 of these societies have received unusually large 

 grants in the past. The great majority of 

 societies will receive nice increases in their 

 grants, while in the case of several societies 

 their grants will be doubled. 



The special grant to city societies, which have 

 a total membership in 1906 of 672, is divided as 

 follows: Ottawa, membership 267, proportion of 

 S800 grant, !t318; London, membership 160, pro- 

 portion of .1800 grant, $190; Toronto, member- 

 ship 115, proportion of ?800 grant, $137; Ham- 

 ilton, membership 130, proportion of $800 grant, 

 $155. • 



Ontario Horticultural 

 Association 



A deputation composed of Messrs. W. B. 

 Burgoyne, of Hamilton, pres. Ont. Hort. Assn.; 

 Maj. H. J. Snelgrove, of Cobourg, v.-pres. of 

 the same assn, and H. B. Cowan, sup. of hor- 

 ticultural societies for Ont., and sec. of the assn., 

 waited on Hon. Nelson Monteith, Minister of 

 Agri. for Ont., Sept. 5, and asked that the 

 proceedings of the annual convention of the 

 assn. should be printed and distributed among 

 the members of the hort. societies of the prov- 

 ince. They asked, also, that a grant of $100 

 to the provincial assn. be made to assist in 

 defraying the expenses of bringing speakers 

 to the conventions. The members of the 

 deputation explained that the horticultural 

 societies in the province are not sufficiently 

 numerous or wealthy to be able to defray these 

 expenses. They pointed out that it is desir- 

 able that there should be a provincial organiza- 

 tion to furnish an opportunity for the societies 

 to compare notes and discuss tnethods of work 

 which they have found to be successful. In 

 this way new hnes of work can be made known 

 and the societies strengthened.- The Ont. 

 Assn. would Uke to bring well-known speakers, 

 such as Mr. J. Horace McFarland, president 

 of the American Civic Improvement Assn., 

 and others to its conventions, that it may be 

 kept in touch with work being done on behalf 

 of horticultural improvement in the U.S. 



Hon. Mr. Monteith, in replying to the depu- 

 tation, stated that he was deeply interested 

 in the work being done by the hortl. societies 

 of the province. He reahzed that there is 

 another side of life beside that of making 

 money, and believed that the hortl. societies 

 minister to that side. He had always felt 

 that the organization launched some years ago 

 in favor of civic improvement would not suc- 

 ceed as the work it proposed to accomplish 

 belonged properly to the hortl. societies. He 

 promised careful consideration of the requests 

 made by the deputation, and intimated that 

 he considered their requests reasonable. 



The Brantford Hort. See. held its annual 

 flower show on the evening of Sept. 14. It 

 was a decided success in every way; the num- 

 ber of exhibits was large and the quality well 

 above the average. Mr. Wm. Hunt, of the 

 O.A.C., Guelph, deUvered a most instructive 

 and interesting address, and complimented the 

 society on the marked improvement of this 

 year's show over that of previous years. 



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