THE 



Canadian Horticulturist 



Vol XVII. 



1894. 



No. 4. 



OUR GOVERNOR-GENERAL. 



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HE EARL OF ABERDEEN, Governor-General of Canada, 

 whose portrait is given in this number, was born August 3rd, 

 1847, and educated at St. Andrews and Oxford (M.A., 1872). 

 In 1880 he was appointed Lord- Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire. 

 From 1 88 1 to 1885 he was High Commissioner to the Gen- 

 eral Assembly of the Church of Scotland. From February to 

 August, 1886, he was Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland. In 1893 

 he was appointed Governor-General of Canada. His Excel- 

 lency has the honorary degree of LL.D. of the Universities of 

 Aberdeen and St. Andrews. j 



In, Lord Aberdeen's early childhood, although the family lived near Lon- 

 don, they had in reality all the advantages of a country life, because the Eirl of 

 that day (the grandfather of the Governor-General), who was for some time 

 Premier of Great Britain, held the office of Ranger of Greenwich Park, and 

 gave to his son, Lord Haddo (the Governor-Generars father), the use of the 

 Ranger's Lodge, a fine building on the edge of Blackheath Common, with a 

 large and beautiful garden attached to it, — forming in fact a section of the his- 

 toric Greenwich Park of which one reads in the " Fortunes of Nigel " and else- 

 where. In those youthful days no pastime was so much enjoyed by the future 

 Governor-General as working with the gardeners in their various operations in 

 the shrubberies and pleasure grounds ; and he had still further extended oppor- 

 tunities of a similar kind during the annual visits to Haddo House, Lord Aber- 

 deen's home in Scotland. 



