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e I REMEMBER yh) OR i “Reminiscences of Colborne By Jim Bell The other day Mr. Bruce Bailey was good enough to turn ever to me his Grandfather’s old Day Book. In it I found many things of interest. For one, I never saw nicer penmanship than the headings in that old - book, the first datings of which was in the year 1876. There were also numbers of clippings from old local newspapers that held some interesting items. Here is a partial list of the market prices in Colborne back in 1893. Fall wheat 60c, low 20c; oats 35 and 40c per bu.; flour $1.80 to $2.00 per ewt.; potatoes $1.00 to $1.25 per bag; dried apples $1.25 per bus.; butter 15c lb.; eggs 8c doz.; lard 12 to 13c per lb.; pork $6.00 to $6.50 per cwt.; beef $4.00 to $6.00 cwt. Read them - over carefully, these must have - been the good old days that one hears about occasionally. Another item that reflects the tremendous change in public sentiment was copied from a _ Toronto paper. It was about an attempt to run Sunday Street cars in Toronto. It was tried one ‘Sunday, ‘put the city solicitor immediately. drew up.a by-law} prohibiting such a frofaning of} the Lord’s Day and the city council passed it without a dis- senting vote. 4 2 Mrs. Hinton’s Roses Have you seen Mrs. Hinton’s roses? I always thought that June and July were the time of roses but Mrs. Hinton has them all the summer from June till frost comes. Most of her roses bear every month. I suppose you would call them ever-bearing. Anyone goiug up Percy Street could not fail to see the lovely display all along the front of her house. Thirty-four feet, she told me, and right out to the sidewalk. There was a large number of species. I think it was sixteen varieties and five climbers. They were not at their best when I saw them but al- ready the buds for the next flowering were in evidence. Of one, the Rev. Hinton, named by} Mrs. Hinton, ‘small pale pink flower, delicate- ay shad and also ‘bears pro- | distinctive perfume. course, I cannot describe all of _ them, but I can name most of the species and perhaps put in’ a word or two about some special ones, x The first was the Helen Trubel, which was a lovely pink. The next was called the Forty- niner, then came the Queen Elizabeth, as queenly as_ its name. It is known as a grandi- flora because its blooms come in clusters of three to five. It is a rich pink and very pga The next was a lovely yellow rose called Sutter’s Gold. These are very large, some of them be- ing five inches across. Then the Red Radiant with velvet-like petals, the Buccaneer, a small golden yellow, the Peace, a very beautiful large white rose with pink tipped petals, the Christ- mas rose, which of course is a Christmas red. The Imperial Chrysler is next and is a large flower in a deep, rich red, re- minding one of the rich velvets of olden days. The Snow-White Swan is a small white rose that bears very profusely and is ex- ceptionally. hardy. The next herself, has a a medium “ential white’ Hower, very’ ‘per- fectly formed and with a very There may have been more than five climbers but that is all that I can account for. The first was a pure ‘white and absolute- ly covered with bloom. Mrs. Hinton did not know its name. The Blaze, like its name, was a vivid scarlet. Then there was a pale pink Japanese climber, a Pollyanthus and last but not least, the Frau Karl Druschki, another lovely white flower shading into a rich creamy centre. Words cannot do justice to this lovely display of roses and any flower lover will be well re- paid by making a special call to see them. Mrs. Hinton is well over the eighty mark and yet al- most every day when the weath- er is suitable, she may be seen with her hoe out tending her. flowers with loving care.