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... in the development of the Royal Botanical Gardens. ... exchange with or give to parks, horticultural societies and similar bodies, shrubs, plants and flowers, give courses of instruction in forestry, nature study, botany, horticulture, agriculture, promote research and advance the interests of technical and botanical knowledge, encourage the cultivation of trees, shrubs, fruits, flowers, vegetables and other produce, collect information regarding the same and publish such information, offer prizes and grant diplomas, and pursue objects similar to the objects of horticultural societies, and promote the general educational interests of the country. The ghosts of those earlier horticulturists and educators, Isaac Buchanan, William Cragie and Andrew Logie, were doubtless appeased by the energetic action taken by the modern generation at the Head of the Lake. The programme outlined in 1941 has yielded significant results: among others, the establishment of arboreta and experimental plots; the improvement of the "Hendrie Entrance", to the east of the Rock Garden, and Princess Point, for a centre to be used for winter sports in Coote's Paradise; the development of the popular Spring Garden, which specializes in varieties of iris; and the Children's Garden in Churchill Park, a tract reserved for the training of local youth in the fine points of horticulture. But the flower lover and the aesthete were not the only citizens who were pleased by the programme. Members of the mercantile community knew full well, to quote the comments of Mr. William Morrison, Hamilton's Mayor in 1941, how many visitors, from all parts of Canada and the United States, come this way in order to see the Rock Gardens and western entrance development, but these attractions are too small in the point of time required to see them to keep the visitors here for long, but with the development of the Royal Botanical Gardens there will be so much to see that the tourists will stay for the days and weeks in our city, in order to enjoy all the beauties of the gardens. Visitors will be brought in direct contact with our stores and merchants. The possibilities of this are enormous. Souvenir ticket to opening of Dundurn Park, Hamilton, on the 81st birthday of Her Majesty Queen Victoria 24th May 1900