horticulture

Mr. Porter's renown as a horticulturist is mainly the result of his outstanding successes in breeding and selecting improved varieties of lilies. Lilies he has developed have been acclaimed internationally by such organizations as the North American Lily Society. Over the years, he has stressed the development of such characteristics as hardiness, fruit or flower quality, and disease and insect resistance.

Eminent Chancellor, I present a distinguished Canadian. Arthur Richardson Brown was born at Watford, Ontario, received his early education in the local schools and his teacher's training in the Faculty of Education of Queen's University, and began his teaching career in a rural pioneer school in the province of Alberta in 1909. Being a man of vision he soon migrated to Saskatchewan where he continued his profession.