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order to afford a habitat for the northern hordes brought in to disturb 
their hitherto peaceful life. But as I look upon those transplanted 
ones,that have grown and flourished, they recall — and I live over 
again — canoe voyages on northern rivers, tent-life amid woodland 
scenery, the sight of large game in these solitudes, deadly struggles 
with small game, such as mosquitoes and black flies, as I dug up the 
coveted treasures and, with wearied arms and back, toiled through 
thickets and bogs to bring them safely to their destination. 
But the piece de resistance in this meadow has been the brook. My 
plan was to turn it aside in quiet bays and little placid lakes, on 
whose bosom should repose water lilies, and where I should have at a 
glance all our aquatic plants. But the turbulent little stream, dashing 
down from the adjacent hill sides, has carried away — root and branch 
— the plants placed too confidingly within the limits of its bed. It 
refuses to become a partner to my scheme and emits a gurgle of de- 
light at every fresh failure of mine to win it over, or at least to secure 
its passive non-resistance. 
Beyond, to the southward, there rises a hill whose fertility has been 
drained to enrich the grove and meadow below it. The soil is dry 
and poor, covered with a growth of pines, firs, birches, shrubs and 
heath plants. Here the Heather (Calluna vulgaris) transplanted 
from Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, has flourished for several years 
— an evidence of the sterility of the soil. Here stands an aged white 
pine, the sole survivor of a fire which swept over the place scarcely 
two decades ago. ‘The scarred and blackened trunk and upper 
branches, extended imploringly, tell of its struggle forlife. Crossing a 
slight depression another knoll is reached on which stands a small 
summer cottage where I shall be glad to welcome any reader of 
RHODORA and show him, in part at least, a wild garden of New Bruns- 
wick plants, with, alas, the graves of some of those that have perished 
because of the too near approach to the Bay of Fundy's chill fogs and 
winds. 
In the garden there are over five hundred species of flowering 
plants and ferns, many of which were zz situ, while others have been 
planted during the past twelve years. The ferns, trees and shrubs, 
and those flowering plants most easily transferable are more largely 
represented. The ferns embrace a nearly complete list of this class 
of New Brunswick plants. The trees and shrubs are also well repre- 
sented. Of the eighty species found in the province more than two- 
