THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



It has also been fully demonstrated again thi.-s 

 year that it is quite possible to cope, in a scien- 

 tific way, with the insects and fungus pests that 

 cause the fruit grower so much annoyance and 

 loss. Our members will do well to inform 

 themselves thoroughly on the best appliances 

 and the most up-to-date methods of dealing 

 with these troubles, and having gained the in- 

 formation attend diligently to putting it into 

 practice, a work for which they will be well re- 

 paid. 



I thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for the 

 hearing you have given me, and I trust that oui' 

 meeting here in Leamington may not be with- 

 out its value to the residents of the town and 

 surrounding country, and also may result in 

 great good to fruit growers generally through- 

 out the province. 



OUR SECRETARY. 



A MAN, to be successful in public life, 

 must be tactful, obliging, good-natured, 

 and energetic. These attributes are pos- 

 •sessed in a large degree by Mr. G. C. Creel- 

 man, Secretary of the Ontario Fruit Grow- 

 ers' Association. 



Mr.Creelman was born in the town of 

 Collingwood, Ontario, in May 9th, 1869. 

 His parents were both Nova Scotiars, his 

 mother being descended from Scotch ances- 

 try, while his father's forebears came from 

 the north of Ireland. 



When he was nine years of age his par- 

 ents moved to a fruit farm in Collingwood 

 Township, in the county of Grey, and there 

 Mr. Creelman spent his youth. He at- 

 tended the country school until passing the 

 entrance to the high school. For two years 

 he attended the Collingwood Collegiate In- 

 stitute, and from there went to the Ontario 

 Agricultural College, where he took the de- 

 gree of B. S. A., in 1888, in the first class 

 that graduated from that institution. 



Immediately after graduation Mr. Creel- 

 man was appointed Assistant Professor of 

 Biology in the State Agricultural and Me- 

 chanical College, of Mississippi, U. S. A. 

 Three years later he was promoted to a full 

 professorship, and he remained in that in- 

 stitution until he returned to Canada to take 

 up his present work. 



During the summer vacations in his col- 



lege work in Mississippi, Mr. Creelman took 

 special courses in botany and horticulture 

 at the Michigan Agricultural College, the 

 State University of Minnesota, and Cornell 

 University, New York. He was granted 

 the degree of Master of Science by the Mis- 

 sissippi Agricultural and Mechanical Col- 

 lege. 



In 1892 Mr. Creelman married Miss Ada, 

 the eldest daughter of Dr. James Mills, 

 President of the Ontario Agricultural Col- 

 lege. 



Since the appointment of Mr. Creelman 

 to the secretaryship of the Ontario Fruit 

 Growers' Association he has put new life 

 into the work. Orchard meetings have been 

 held throughout the Province. Speakers 

 have been sent out to address farmers in the 

 orchards on the best methods of pruning, 

 grafting, budding and spraying fruit trees; 

 and the demand for these meetings has in- 

 creased to such an extent that applications 

 are coming in from all parts of the province 

 for an extension and repetition of the work. 



By wise planning Mr. Creelman is bring- 

 ing the work of the Fruit Experiment Sta- 

 tions of the Province into close touch with 

 the farmers. Farmers' Institute excur- 

 sions to these stations have been arranged 

 during the last two seasons, and the farmers 

 in the counties in which the fruit stations are 

 located are thereby enabled to inspect per- 

 sonally the work that is being done. 



Mr. Creelman also has charge of the busi- 

 ness end of the Canadian Horticulturi'-t, and 

 with the assistance of the editor, Mr. Linus 

 Woolverton, is making this journal an up- 

 to-date horticultural publication. He like- 

 wise has charge of the lecture course of the 

 Horticultural Societies, and each year better 

 work is being done and better results ob- 

 tained by these societies under his guidance. 



In addition to his horticultural work Mr. 

 Creelman carries a very considerable burden 

 as Superintendent of the Farmers' Institutes 

 for the Province of Ontario, an dfifice which 



