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CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



Fio. 31 —A. M.^Smith, the Vick-Pkesident ok the Fr('it Gkoweks' Association of Ontario. 



SOME PROMINENT CANADIAN HORTICULTURISTS.-III. 



A. M. Smith, the Vice-President ok the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario. 



THE Niagara District has been for 

 many years the foremost fruit- 

 producing section of Ontario. The 

 growing of apples, pears, peaches, cher- 

 ries, grapes, and small fruits for ship- 

 ping was here encouraged at an early 

 date, and it was at Grrimsby, some 

 thirty years ago, that the custom of 



shipping perishable fruits by express 

 was first begun in Canada. 



Who was the prime mover in this 

 industry, which has now made Grimsby 

 famous as a fruit centre, and disco- 

 vered for this whole peninsula a mine 

 of wealth for tlie faithful and indus- 

 trious fruit culturist ? In reply we give 



