Cultivating the Garden

From the 1890s through the early flowers delivery decades of the 20th century a social awakening, known as the "social gospel", spread throughout most of the Western world. This Protestant flowers Toronto movement, based on the idea that no personal salvation was possible without social salvation, led to a wide range of social reforms. One of these was Canada flowers delivery a new emphasis on nature and the importance of improving the landscape in and around the cities: around homes, around institutions such as the railways, and in the Australia flowers delivery schools to instill these ideas in children. All of this led to an increased interest in gardens New York flower and their role in the new, socially responsible Canada.

[This section of the exhibition owes much to Edwinna von Baeyer's detailed research to be found in flowers delivery online her book, included in the section on Railway Station Gardening, Rhetoric and Roses: A History of Canadian Gardening 1900-1930, and in A Selected Bibliography for Japan flower Garden History in Canada in The New Experts section.]

Second-Generation Gardening

Already, by the early Toronto flower 19th century, Lower Canada was into a second generation of landscaping gardens on its great estates. The wealthy fur and lumber barons were building elegant homes with elaborate grounds and gardens. Towards the end of the century, serious gardeners in Ontario were into second-generation gardening as well and were beginning to produce helpful guides about gardening in the Canadian Vancouver flower environment, or writing loving descriptions of their own gardens and gardening practices. Seed companies had become well established and were including beautiful art illustrating the kinds of flowers, fruits and vegetables Australia flower growers dream of.

D.W. Beadle, the son of nurseryman Chauncey Beadle, was the first editor of the Canadian Horticulturist. As such he was an appropriate person to put together this very Canada flowers detailed guide dedicated to the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario and supported by them. Not surprisingly, it includes much advice on the cultivation of fruits and the way to successfully sustain an orchard. For many years it was the Toronto flowers only English-language UK flowers, comprehensive text on gardening in the Canadian climate.