. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1897. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. Fio. lO.'W. — I'kok. Short. ties so often seen in our city parks, in the way of stiff designs or of ribbon bed- ding. The stiff architectural element is in keei)ing near the house, but should shade off into the natural as you go from it. Prof. Fowler's lecture on " Fertiliza- tion of Flowers," was an excellent one. True, it dealt much with first princi- ples, but these are often too little under- stood, even by the practical hybridist, who is aiming at both fame and fortune by means of some fortunate cros
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1897. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. Fio. lO.'W. — I'kok. Short. ties so often seen in our city parks, in the way of stiff designs or of ribbon bed- ding. The stiff architectural element is in keei)ing near the house, but should shade off into the natural as you go from it. Prof. Fowler's lecture on " Fertiliza- tion of Flowers," was an excellent one. True, it dealt much with first princi- ples, but these are often too little under- stood, even by the practical hybridist, who is aiming at both fame and fortune by means of some fortunate cross or hybrid. The professor showed clearly the wholf processs of fertilization of the ovules by the pollen grains, and e.\ploded the old idea that the flowers of our fruits depended each upon its own pollen, for often the very position of stamens and pistils with respect to each other were unfavorable to this work being success- fully accomplished. The pollen was greatest value. It is not often so much talent can be brought together to discuss fruit topics There were present both the Dominion and the Provincial Min- ister of Agriculture, Dr. Saunders and Mr. John Craig, of Ottawa; Prof. H. I,. Hutt, of Guelph ; R. J. Shepherd, of Montreal ; Capt. Shepherd of Queens- ton ; Mr. J. Haycock, ; Mr. Ruddick, Superintendent of the Dairy School, and numerous experts in fruit culture from all parts of the Province. Not least, among us was, the array of talent which we were able to borrow from the neighboring Queen's College Mr. Adam Short, Professor of Politic;il Science, gave an excellent paper on "Gardening in Relation to Civilization,' and showed us clearly the steps of ad- vance in the history of gardening. He seemed to favor the natural style of gardening, rather than the artificial, and mercilessly condemned the monstrosi-. canied from one flower to another by wind and by insects, and was more potent with another flower than with its Please note that these ima
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