. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1897. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. SMALL-FRUIT GROWING. CULTURE IN FARMKRS' ( Fig. 1113.—Mr. B. Oott. Mr. B. (Jott was the eldest son of a family of nine, and who emigrated from across the .Atlantic in the year 1845, being then 12 years of age They first settled in the township of Southwold, near .St. Thomas, but in 1852 the family took up a lot of some "200 acres in the township of \Vest Williams, Middlesex Co., and came there into the unbroken forest to make their future home. But the eldest son started otl' in another direction and,
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1897. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. SMALL-FRUIT GROWING. CULTURE IN FARMKRS' ( Fig. 1113.—Mr. B. Oott. Mr. B. (Jott was the eldest son of a family of nine, and who emigrated from across the .Atlantic in the year 1845, being then 12 years of age They first settled in the township of Southwold, near .St. Thomas, but in 1852 the family took up a lot of some "200 acres in the township of \Vest Williams, Middlesex Co., and came there into the unbroken forest to make their future home. But the eldest son started otl' in another direction and, after engaging with the Upper Canada Book and Tract .Society, Toronto, was appointed to the Co. of Wentworth, Out., as travelling agent or colporteur, in the autumn of 1856. After following this work for some two years, he put himself to the so-called (irammar School of those (lays in Ancaster, and so fitted him- self under the etficient tuition of James Re- gan, , for the work of Common School teaching in Canada, and made his first ettbrts in this line in the township of Oneida, HaUli- mand Co., on the Grand River near Cayuga, and then in Ancaster near Ancaster village. In .January, ISGl, he attended the Provincial Normal School at Toronto for one session, and after passing, came to Arkona, Lanibton Co., to begin his work as teacher of their puli- lic school. Continuing teaching in Watford, Thedford. Corunna and other places for some eight 3-ears, and finding it not to agree with his health, he decided upon a change. He then bought a small farm near Arkona and thence- forth determined to devote himself to practi- cal horticulture and to be known as a practi- cal nurseryman and fruit grower, a life-long desire for which he had been secretly eying and preparing himself from the first. In ()2 the .Vrkona Nurseries were estab- lished, where they exist to this day ami have lieen very serviceable in these lines to the whole surrounding country. There he took great pleasure
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