Introduction
Planting the Seeds
Cultivating the Garden
The Cultivators
Horticultural Societies and Garden Clubs
Experimental Farms and Seed Nurseries
Botanical Gardens
Heritage Seeds and Gardening
Reaping the Harvest
Bibliography
Photos by Beth Powning
Other Gardening Sites
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The Cultivators
Experimental Farms and Seed Nurseries
| For many years the chrysanthemum show at The Farm, shown here in the 1920s, was an important Ottawa event. |
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| Landscape architect and historian Pleasance Crawford has written extensively on the history of gardening in Canada. Here she tells of the early nurserymen (and they were men) and the emphasis they put on fruit stock. She also records their anger at the "Yankee tree pedlars" and their lavish catalogues, who stole business away from local nurseries. |
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Crawford, Pleasance. "Some Early Ontario Nurserymen".
Canadian Horticultural History: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
Vol. 1, No. 1, 1985. |
| James Dougall was a merchant, horticulturalist and politician in Windsor, Ontario. His book was the first English-Canadian title to cover the cultivation of fruits of all kinds. |
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Dougall, James.
The Canadian Fruit-Culturalist: Or Letters to an Intending Fruit-Grower, on the Proper Location, Soil, Preparation, Planting, and After-Cultivation of Orchards, Vineyards, and Gardens; with Directions for the Best Mode of Culture of Each Variety of Fruit; and Select Descriptive Lists of the Best Varieties of the Apple, Pear, Plum, Cherry, Grape, Peach, Nectarine, Apricot, Quince, Gooseberry, Currant, Blackberry, and Strawberry, Suitable for Upper and Lower Canada.
Montreal: Dougall, 1867. |
| Auguste Dupuis was the first francophone nurseryman in Quebec. He was a dedicated educator who studied, experimented and passed on his knowledge to growers throughout the province. In 1880, he founded the first French-language horticultural society in Canada. |
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Deschènes, Gaétan.
Histoire de L'horticulture au Québec.
Saint-Laurent, Québec: Trécarré, 1996. |
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