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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



PROMINENT CANADIAN HORTICULTURISTS. 



MR. W. W. HILLBORN. 



Experimenter in Peaches and S^^ berries at Leamington. 



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N the last number of this jourifWSP^'"gava||cmi 

 to the Leamington Fruit Experiment gro 

 ^ give the experimenter himself an 

 'V/ J readers. 



K^y^ Though born at Sparta, Elgin Coun 

 life was! spent at Arkona, in the Cuunt\ 



account of our visit 

 tnd now we will 



to all our 



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, his early 

 Lambton, then 



almocit a wilderness. Here, v'hile quite a bOJ^Jiis interest 

 in cjmall fruits was awakened in gathering wild r^^berries, 

 arid noting the evident diiSference in the fruit, especially 

 in the black caps. When old enoui;A to experiment, he began -^-testing 

 those wild black cap? in the garden. His plan was to mark a large nurali^r of 

 the best plants, while in ^rn.jt, ano transplant these in auturr,n into rows along- 

 side the Mammoth Cluster. He Pund that those wil d varieties were not as 



as well /when transplanted to the 



hardy as that; variety ; nor did the .accet 

 garden, as th^ had done in the vild state. 



