OUR ANNUAL MEETING 



Fig. 2715. W. H. Bunting, St. Catharines, Ont. 



President of the Ontario Fruit Growers' 



Association for 1904. 



OWING in part to the urgent request of 

 the local horticultural society, and in 

 part to the influence of our experimenter. 

 Mr. W. W. Hillborn, and his brother Mr. 

 J. L. Hillborn, our director for Essex, 

 our annual meeting for 1903 was held 

 at Leamington, a town of about 3,000 

 inhabitants, situated in the County of 

 Essex, and within about a mile of Lake 

 Erie. Much of the land east is rather 

 too level for good drainage, and consequent- 

 ly' ill suited for fruit growing, but a short 

 distance west the ground is more elevated 

 and of a sandy loam, well adapted for peach 

 growing. 



The attendance was excellent, and the 

 deepest interest manifest, but it was difficult 



to secure good hotel accommodation and 

 the general feeling was in favor of some per- 

 manent meeting place in future in a city,, 

 where a suitable hall could be secured for 

 our meetings and first-class accommodation 

 for our guests. It was therefore resolved that 

 the meeting in 1904 be held in the city of 

 Toronto in conjunction with the annual 

 chrysanthemum show of the Toronto Horti- 

 cultural Society, which would greatly in- 

 crease the interest in the floricultural section 

 of our meetings and largely increase the 

 number of delegates from our horticultural 

 societies. An apple fair on a large scale 

 will be held at the next meeting, which, if 

 annual, will become a most important fea- 

 ture and a special attraction to apple grow- 

 ers. If, in extension of the idea, samples 

 of apples of XXX and Fancy XXX grades 

 could be shown representing stock held in 

 cold storage by growers, buyers might be 

 induced to come, and large winter sales of 

 fruit f. o. b. might be efifected. 



the; officers for 1904. 



THE following is the complete list of 

 officers for the new year, as Anally 

 adopted at Leamington: 



President, W. H. Bunting, St. Catharines ; 

 Vice-President, Alexander McNeill, WalkerviUe; 

 Secretary, G. C. Creelman, Toronto ; Editor of 

 Canadian Horticulturist, L. Woolverton, Grims- 

 by. Directors — A. D. Harkness, Irena ; R. B. 

 Whyte, Ottawa ; Harold Jones, Maitland ; W. 

 H. Dempsey, Trenton ; Wm. Rickard, Newcas- 

 tle ; Elmer Lick, Oshawa; M. Pettit, Winona ; 

 E. Morris, Fonthill ; J. S. Scarff, Woodstock ; A. 

 E. Sherrington, Walkerton ; T. H. Race, Mitch- 

 ell ; J. L. Hillborn, Leamington ; G. C. Caston, 

 Craighurst. 



Honorary : Prof. H. L. Hutt, O.A.C., Guelph; 

 W. T. Macoun, C.E.F., Ottawa ; A. M. Smith, St. 

 Catharines ; Thos. Beall, Lindsay. 



Representatives on the Board of Control of the 

 Ontario Fruit Stations : Prof. H. L. Hutt, W. 

 T. Macoun and A. M. Smith. 



OUR PRESIDENT. 



AT the election of officers for 1904 it 

 was with general consent that our 

 worthy president, Mr. W. H. Bunting, of 



