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need a better heating system next winter labour and mathuais ah rieniwia now bergs aectrolab tr 74202 we supply install or repair automatic heating systems whether coal gas or oil fired canadian g e hall foundry a iron fireman equipment the finest in their class f guarantee you comfort convenience and economy terms may be arranged and first payment may be deferred until september insurance travel real estate walter t evans co triangle 72512 mill street servii2 your community for over 30 years whatever the weather youll fill km way rogers fur oil keeps your house at a comfortable even temperature au murt allison georgetown triangle 73291 triangle 74072 eli as rogers 2221 ionge street toronto delegates report of annual ontario horticultural meeting when mrs harry harchington gave her report to georgetown horticultural society of her visit as one of the delegates u the on tario convention it was so thor ough and interesting that mem bers thought it should be shared with those who were not in atten dance at the meeting the report in its entirety follows mr chairman and fellow gard eners i want first to thank you for making it possible for mrs norton and me to have two most enjoy able days at the convention in hamilton as you know a lot of ground is covered in a day and i can onlji give you the high lights as i saw them the invocation appropriate to the occasion was given by the reverend john witzcl of mount hamilton and was followed by ther introduction of officers and directors the president drbryce mcken dnck of toronto called tnc con vent ion a sort of refresher course where jou met and- exchanged id eas with other practical garden ers great progress has been made in horticulture in the last 25 years with a great deal of help being given by the ontario dcpt of agriculture and the oac and he mentioned especially dr hil ton and mr james taylor of the oacs horticultural dcpt how ever while the population of onta no has increased tremendously the membership of the horticultu ral socity has not and he issued a challenge to the association to enrol more members and to try to reach the 40 000- mark for 1958 which means an increase of onl 20 new members from each socie ty he hoped a solution would be found and mentioned the willing ness of the press and radio to give publicity if the activities were imaginative enough to be of inter est to the public the masurtr in giving his rt port also stressed the med for new nit in bers the total net worth a i he end of 1957 was 2 414 82 mr john i budd of the toron to park and recreation depart mtnt thtn poke on house plants house plants he said should blend in with iour house and fur minings thlv huuld give it col lour and inttrist and add a spark of life to your house the large leaved plants such as the rubber plant diefenhachia croton etc look well in contemporary homes while period furniture calls for finer leaved flowering plants he gave general directions for soil lighting watering etc as he said no plant is better than its soil the next speaker was mr e l wood landscape architect feder al district cbmmission ottawa who illustrated his talk with ma ny beautiful slides up until the war park landscaping at ottawa as elsewhere consisted of a great many small beds dotted here and there of foliage and such like small plants and it kept 15 green houses and a great many men bus growing them tjic designs were good accord ing to the times and the ideas for them had been brought over by well trained old country garden ers but they belonged to the day of ornate furmtun andfancy brie a brae the precar era when people just stajed home or walk cd in the parted after the war there were grtat changes men had shorter work hours more mo ney and cars and these displays were 20 years behind the times during the war the greenhouses were unused and were in disre pair and money was scarce so mr wood came up with some new ideas 12 of the 15 greenhouses were demolished they dispensed with the small beds and their fol lage plants and planted spring flowering bulbs in large beds or drifts followed by rugash and flo- nbunda roses lilacs and rhodod endrons and boxes for filling in between seasons followed by the easy grown annuals which last till frost tried and true single an nuals were used picked for their brightness and purencss of colour and most beds contained just one colour a few had contrasting bor ders some beds were heaped up in the centre to show them off to advantage and in parkwas and dnvewa splasher colour were used as people now travelled in can and got a different iew at the speed with which they now parsed pure design colour dom inancc bnllianci of colour and lari numbers with of course good background all scrvi to give tourists to our capital a brilliant displd all iiunn lh growing sea sun tm moa hwtallo wisaii tw mar ttfc page 3 delegates attending the 1958 safety conference of the indus trial accident prevention associations were more than 30 mem bers of the turtle club they are industrial workers who have saved their lives or escaped serious inury by wearing hard hats on the ob safety conference was held in the queen elizabeth building toronto last month here pretty mabel webber shows a lifesaving chapeau to a nonetoohappy snapping turtle look what plymouth offers at the a panel consisting of sandy best georgetown o a kumrner of preston jas taylor of the oac and the rev mr siebert of elmi ra the glad man then answered questions on lilies bulbs and tub ers before we adjourned for lunch mr best gave the dates jul 18th and 19th for the inter national lily show to be held this j car at hart house toronto he suggested that bus loads should attend if possible the hours for frtda the 17lh being 2 30 p m to 10 p m and on saturdav 10 a m to 10 p m the afurnoon session started at 2 and a report on awards and pre sentations was given bj the secre tary 1 mitht saj here that the bird ho use and posters were on displa as was a good arrav of huuse plants b mr budd or the toronto parks department the winning shdis win put on thi screen later mr lashle the superintendent hen gate his report on the ach iecmtnts of tht association which is now in its 105th car there are 210 societies in ontario with a membership of 36 935 nine societies were organized tion the water or sap can weather astonishingly low temperatures wi thout being affected so you can see that the more water a plant can convert to bound form and the more food it can place in storage in the fall the hardier it will be so it is that we do not recommend heavy wa enng in early and midautumn nor nitrogen fertilization during late summer and autumn nor heavy summer pruning to stimulate late shoot growth even in cases where we lift plants oer winter because we know they will not withstand jack frost we still should keep the hardening off process in mind so that our corms roots and bulbs will so into their winter storage equipped as well as possible to withstand the long winter of slow burning up of foods and still hae inough left for strong earl growth in the spring mr sand best confined himself to a brief snopti of the breeding of idas the last 20 jears has ecn tremendous progress in the production of colourful hard var ieties resulting in the hybrid hi ics of loda canadian breeders maveal motor sales ltd main st til 73411 ymrnnsnmlotul 1mkki building sand concrete gravel road gravel fill and top soil stone work tom haines gun williams tr 73301 of all leading canadian cars levelsmooth torsiona7 rid brandnew i suregripdltrerential safer- stopping totalcontact brakes ultramodern push button automatic drive beautiful new 3llveroert styling safetycentre steering wheel electric windshield wlpere big new 313- cubiclnch thrillpower v8 newly improved thrill- power six huge 3b cubicfoot luggage compartment new stretchout roomlneee brandnew dual headtlghte luxurious new fabrics exerting colours highest quality at lowest price i convzidbntiallv tf you think taw in a lot to fat ft the lowest pnee of any laatnaf f on just watfbxsa ilin all the net of plymouths extratalus fea tures i comsaiidlryaottprmoutn there ate si models t the lowes price soyoutl be able to sat just what you wanl see bow masyyoa can own s bit 58 p ncwl terswk tetany 1 1957 the largest socieu i at havc done half the good breeding uelph whtrt th hac 1325 mem hprs mr lashk reported that i last year 140 societies did anoits forms of public planting 55 held j flower shows while 52 featured garden competitions he made reference to the an nual grant from the ontario gov eminent having been increased to 30 000 which was divided among the societies he also said that a number of societies had not sent in their reports and until they did the money could not be distributed to the ones that did so urged that that be done he said too that mr clark the secretary had pictures of last ears trip to england and the continent and they were available to societies dr r j hilton head of the hor cultural dcpt of the oac in spca king on plant hardiness and gar dening in the north said that hor ticulture was pure romance that the apple had figured in the first romance but that in his opinion the whole thing revolved around a green pear he went on to dis cuss rather technically plant har dmess what it is why it is and how it may effect each of us the term hardiness is often taken to apply to any plant that is thriv ing out of its usual environment but canadian usually associate the term with the limiting growth fac tor of temperature thus a half hardy plant at guetph will be a tender plant at winnipeg the factor of heredity influences our recognition of the conditions under which one plant is hardy and ther not many kinds of plants are particularly adapted to short growing seasons and low tempera tures one species might be so low growing as to take fullest ad vantage of very light snow cover or another may mature its wood or winder bods very early and so have fullest opportunity to harden off for the winter another is shade loving therefore protected by or bush cover and so on also garden plants are influenced by the direct factors of environ ment hardening off is essential ry done in nature by the combioa- herkes motor sales 5i oucvh stkeet georgetown tiwalaraltfmaet fwlkslfnataaafl around the world and he men tioned miss isabella preslon dr palnur and mr james talor in this respect mr best showed tides of man of the beautiful new varieties to round out his talk on thursday evening a banquet was held in the hotels crystal ball room guest speaker being rabbi bernard basken of hamilton whose subject was the ten wisest say ings spoken b han rabbi ras kin selected his quotations from various sources ranging from the scriptures to those of statesmen and he indicated now irrespective of the century from which they were chosen they were just as ap plicable in this vastly changed da and age alderman roj andow represen ting mayor jackson and the hon roy connell mla for hamilton wentworth representing the hon w a goodfellow minister or ag riculture also spoke the evemng was rounded out with dancing i attended a panel discussion on friday on society work and pro jects when asked if options of rose bushes etc were necessary one member of the panel said in their case they had always given one and would find it hard to dis continue he thought it helped to stimulate interest in gardening and often planting the rose bush the new member would go on from there other members of the pan el disagreed one thought that membership was well worth a dol lar and that the aaoney was all needed for community heautioca- tion if youaeve to depend on the member who joins just for the pre miums you might as well not have that member a suggestion made was to pass the work around that a working member was an interested one another member laid of their experiences with childrens gar den plots their sue cost etc and they had found them success ful and worthwhile regarding the subject of raising money for the society the barrie ample carbohydrate ture reduced moisture supply common in midautumn and shar ply reduced night t reduced rate of respiration and consequently less utilisation of car bohydrates and more storage 6f these sugars and starches jn the plant the effect of hardening off is seen in tissues with cells turgid not with free water and sugars in thin solution but with stored food not only is essential for rap id growth next spring but also en ables tht plant to retain water in bound form and in this condi the cotta inn for good things to eat all through the day breakfast coffee break lunch dinner or the evening snack the food is all tastefully and appetizingly prepared do come in and let us serve you main st s tr- 7004 min0 millw0rk doors cabinets frames sash stairs screens prompt service tree estimates 11 water st tr 79771 aieiajsjejsibai tion of bright autumn awatugat delegates where they have a large society said that when they planting around the library arena etc there the boards of those nh cea gavetheai create the usual euchres etc were abo mentioned i one member said that where heavy work was required to pre pare beds etc for town planting the town iiiihlid wmiinie to they would like more exhibi tors in the bird house poster clas ses for children and twnimnri said that the lands and forests divis ion would help with the bird boo- ptuhm buot 1ot comfort ww ornkjht- mnmratav biugarbutt v-