THE 



Canadian Horticulturist 



Vol. XVIIi. 



1895, 



No. II. 



PRESIDENT MILLS AND HIS WORK. 



OW that Dr. Mills has become so 

 closely associated with Canadian 

 fruit growers, as President of the 

 Ontario Fruit Experiment Stations, 

 it seems fitting that his face should 

 form the frontispiece of one of the 

 issues of the Canadian Horticul- 

 turist. His career has been so 

 well sketched by Mr. F. W. Hodson, 

 that we extract a portion of it. 

 James Mills was born of North of 

 Ireland parents, in the County of 

 Simcoe, Ontario, in the year 1840. 

 There, until he reached twenty-one 

 years of age, he received a most 

 thorough training in all the practical 

 details of Canadian farm work, as 

 the farm upon which he was brought up, and upon which he worked, was one 

 of the best managed and best cultivated of the Province. So far his life had 

 been intensely practical. A serious accident formed the turning point in his 

 career. At twenty-one he lost his right arm in a threshing machine, and, thus 

 handicapped, he stood upon the threshold of his life work with responsibility, 

 and what some would call disaster, staring him in the face. He then entered 



