THE 



Canadian Horticulturist. 



Vol. XIII. 



15 90. 



No. 8. 



SOME PROMINENT CANADIAN HORTICULTURISTS— XL 



THE LATE JOHN CROIL, OF AULTSVILLE, ONT. 



Friend after friend departs, 



Who hath not lost a friend ? 

 There is no union here of hearts 



That finds not here an end. 



HIS year seems full of calamities. Railway disasters, 

 cyclones and the grip have mown down thousands of 

 our fellows, and among them some whose loss is keenly 

 felt by all students of horticulture. 



The Society of American Florists has lost a prominent 

 member in Mr. Peter Henderson ; the Western New 

 York Horticultural Society its first and only president, Mr. P. Barry ; the 

 Montreal Horticultural Society its worthy vice-president, Mr. Chas. Gibb, 

 and now our own Society has to mourn the loss of one of her highly valued 

 directors. 



Mr. John Croil was a native of Glasgow, Scotland, where he was born 

 in the year 1824. He received a good classical education at the Grange 

 Academy, Sunderland, England, and at the age of nineteen came to Mont- 

 real, where for four years he engaged in mercantile life. But finding the 

 close confinement unfavorable to his health, he decided upon a country life, 



