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Horticultural Society, and none but the most imperative reasons 
ever keep him away from the meetings, as he felt that they were © 
most instructive and helpful. 
His death occurred very suddenly of apoplexy, a slight shock of 
which he had experienced two years previous. 
Mr. Danforth married on April 30, 1857, Miss Lucia A. Nichols. | 
She survives, as do also two children, William, who is at present 
county surveyor, and Lucia, whois connected with Carleton College, 
at Northfield. 
Mr. Danforth first became connected with this society in 1886, 
and thereafter his name appeared continuously upon the rolls, 
and his face soon became a familiar one at our meetings, which 
he rarely missed. During these years the society has had no 
stauncher friend than he, nor one who stood more ready to 
serve its interests at whatever personal loss. Of the spirit of 
disinterestedness so prevalent in our association and which is 
the secret of its growth and influence, he partookin a very 
large degree. Quiet, unostentatious, genial, a man of strict 
integrity, he had a host of friends in and out of our society, 
who will most sincerely mourn his death. SEC’Y. 
DEATH OF JOHN LITTLE, GRANTON, ONTARIO. 
The decease of a noted Canadian horticulturist is announced. 
Mr. John Little passed away at his home in Granton, Ontario, Can- 
ada, on the 17th of November, 1897, aged 82 years. Mr. Little was 
born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1815, came to Canada about 1843, and 
engaged in farming. During the last twenty-five years he had been 
deeply interested in the growing of strawberries, having originated 
many new seedlings and tested nearly all the new varieties that 
have come out during the last quarterof a century. The Woolverton 
and Saunders are among the best of his seedlings so far introduced. 
He leaves an untarnished reputation for candor and integrity, was 
greatly esteemed and will be held in honor by all horticulturists of 
America. J.:.S: 
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