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Cobourg Horticultural Society – 150th Anniversary Tea Party on June 17, 2009

The Cobourg Horticultural Society was originally founded in February 1859. The Society’s meetings and activities in the 1860s were regularly recorded in The Cobourg Sentinel and include an annual exhibition at Victoria Hall, with over 500 attendees, and competitions in many categories of vegetables, fruits, plants and flowers.

The Society continues to hold flower shows twice a year, each May and August. Other activities now include an annual plant sale, speakers at monthly meetings and funding bursaries for local high school graduates who are pursuing post-secondary education in horticulture or related studies.

Among the beautification projects undertaken by the club over the years are the Edwin Haynes Memorial Rose Garden in Victoria Park, the Golden Plough, the Floral Clock, the Northumberland Hills Hospital, and the Millennium Garden at the Five Corners.

To celebrate the 150th anniversary, the club has held a number of activities in 2009, which have included a the cutting of a cake at the February 4 meeting, 150 years and one day from the official founding of the Society. The club exhibited at the town’s Heritage Days at the Northumberland Mall in February, and has a display about the Society in the lobby of Victoria Hall for the months of May and June. Cobourg Parks and Recreation staff have arranged for the floral clock in Victoria Park to display “Cobourg Horticultural Society – 150 years” this summer.

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