The Canadian Horticulturist. 



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PROMINENT CANADIAN HORTICULTURISTS. —XX. 



MR. NELSON J. CLINTON, WINDSOR, ONT. 



ELSON J. CLINTON was born in Windsor. March 4, 

 1861. His father, the late Capt. W. R. Clinton, had the 

 true sailor longing for green fields and golden fruits, and 

 many years ago bought a small farm near Windsor, which 

 he facetiously named "The Ranch." Here he delighted to 

 spend his leisure, planting, pruning and improving, till the 

 little worn-out French farm became a garden, and here 



Nelson took his first lessons in horticulture under his father's care, and that of a 



Southern gardener ; who not content with Northern fruits, essayed, with marked 



success, to grow sweet potatoes and peanuts. 



After a course in the Windsor High School, he spent one year and three 



months at the Guelph Model Farm, an institution for which he has the warmest 



Pig. 519. — Nelson J. Clinton. 



