3n ilemoriam 



JOHN CRAIG 



Professor John Craig died at his summer home at Siasconset, 

 Massachusetts, August 10th, 1912. He is survived by Mrs. Craig 

 and one son, Arthur. He was born at Lakefield, Quebec, in 1864. 

 Receiving his early training in Montreal, he was graduated in Agricul- 

 ture from the low^a State College in 1887, and his master's degree was 

 conferred by Cornell University in 1898. From 1890 to 1897, Pro- 

 fessor Craig was Horticulturist of the Dominion Experimental Farms 

 of Canada. He then became Professor of Horticulture at the Iowa 

 State College, where he remained for two years. In 1900 he came to 

 Cornell to take charge of the extension work. He continued in this 

 position until 1903, when he became head of the Department of 

 Horticulture. This position he held until his death. Professor Craig 

 was a horticulturist in the broadest sense of the term. Few, if any, 

 have been better informed than he upon all the varied phases of 

 pomology, vegetable gardening, floriculture, landscape work, and 

 civic improvement, while during the later years of his life he had 

 given much attention to one of the newer fields, the culture of the 

 edible nuts. Professor Craig felt a deep interest in vegetable garden- 

 ing, and he was much interested in the progress of this line of work, 

 both in the University and in the state as a whole. He maintained 

 his active interest in the work of his Department up to the very end 

 of a heroic fight for the recovery of his health. 



Professor Craig was one of the founders of the New York State 

 Vegetable Growers' Association, having signed the original call, and 

 he acted as temporary chairman of the first meeting. It was through 

 him that the co-operation of the Department of Horticulture was 

 extended to the newly formed society, and he will ever be remembered 

 as one of those who took a leading part in the launching of the 

 organization. 



