The Canadian Horticulturist. 



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SOME PROMINENT CANADIAN HORIICUI-TLRIS'IS. XIII. 



MR. W. K. W Kl.l.INi;'! ON. 



~" HE name of our Association is too narrow to define the scope of 

 our operations. We touch on forestry, floriculture and landscape 



gardening, as well as on fruit growing ; all of them branches of 

 the more comprehensive term, " horticulture,' or cultivation of 

 the garden. The agriculturist cultivates the broad acres of a 

 field, but the horticulturist concentrates his time and labor ujjon the small plot 

 called a garden. The former is an extensive method, and the latter intensive. 



The name, Ontario Horticultural Society, would, perhaps, better express the 

 lines within which we operate, and yet, to an Old Country gardener, this would 

 indicate professional floriculture, a division which, in this country, we leave to 

 the florists' clubs of our cities and towns ; ourselves dealing with it onlv as it is 

 interesting to amateurs, and the general public. 



The nursery is another department of horticulture. Methods of propagation 

 of trees and plants are so essential to the best success of a fruit grower, that we 

 welcome to our Board of Directors one or two nurserymen, in order that we may 

 refer knotty questions on propagation to them at our meetings, and we find that 

 they are, as a rule, quite ready to confide to us the secrets of their profession, 

 for the general good. Not only so, but, to their credit be it said, those who 

 have had a place on our Board have carefully avoided advocating their private 

 interests, or, in common parlance, " talking shop." 



Prominent among our Canadian nurserymen, is Mr. W. E. \\'ellington, of 

 Toronto, a gentleman who has always taken a deep interest in the work of our 

 Association, using his influence in every way possible to increase its usefulness. 

 No one sends in larger club lists of new names, and no one is more ready to 

 forward its projects, either with time or money. 



Mr. W. E. Wellington is a Canadian, and his native place is Oshawa, 

 Ontario, where he was born in 1849. There his boyhood days were spent 

 among the orchards and gardens near Lake Ontario, surroundings which favored 

 the development of his taste for horticultural pursuits. At the age of twenty- 

 one, he resolved to enter the nursery business. He went to Rochester and 

 engaged with Messrs. Chase Bros., afterwards entering their Toronto otifice, soon 

 becoming a partner in charge of the New England States. Later, he voluntarily 

 left them, to go into business in Canada witii his brother-in-law, Mr. (i. A. Stone. 



In 1878, this firm purchased from Mr. Morris a two-thirds interest in the 

 Fonthill nurseries, which had been established in the year 1842. These have 

 since grown to such an extent that, in place of the original 100, the establi>h- 

 ment now covers about 700 acres of land. On these grounds, in addition to 

 the nurserv proper, are extensive greenhouses, with over twelve thousand square 



