. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1901. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. >4 THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. OUR BRANTFORD Fa;. 1982. W. M. Orr, Pkesident for 1901. .^4^^NE of the best meeting-s we have ' I ever held in point of real work \>ZJl '^"^ valuable addresses was held "^S^c in Brantford the 19th, 20th and 21 St of December last. Not that many members showed up in attendance from the locality, but a fine attendance of our best fruit g'rowers, shippers and repre- sentatives of societies and colleges, and all combined to lend importance to the occasion. After
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1901. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. >4 THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. OUR BRANTFORD Fa;. 1982. W. M. Orr, Pkesident for 1901. .^4^^NE of the best meeting-s we have ' I ever held in point of real work \>ZJl '^"^ valuable addresses was held "^S^c in Brantford the 19th, 20th and 21 St of December last. Not that many members showed up in attendance from the locality, but a fine attendance of our best fruit g'rowers, shippers and repre- sentatives of societies and colleges, and all combined to lend importance to the occasion. After the report of our experimental ship- ments was presented by the secretary, which was given our readers in the December •number, the Hon, John Dryden gave an address containing much encouragement to fruit growers. He dealt chiefly with the San Jose scale and his efforts to perfect a system of continuous cold storage transporta ion of tender fruits to England. Among all the branches of agriculture, he said, there was none of more importance than fruit growing, and he instanced the success of the Ontario exhibits at Chicago and Paris. Their re- sults had been achieved by time and eflfort. The fruit farmers, he said, have had to learn that fruit trees could not be used as forest trees, and that they had to be continually tended, that fruit suitable to one section was not suitable to another. In that work the Government experimental stations had aided. Insect pests, he urged, had to be fought by the farmers unitedly. Some people were apt to place too great reliance upon law. It was necessary, but it could only be enforced when backed by public opinion. They could not drive the people generally, and they could not drive farmers especially. When he established the travelling dairy to educate the farmers and farmers' wives to rig"ht methods in the home, he was asked why he did not start cheese factories and cream- eries. They came, as he expected, from the education aflForded f
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