Excursions. 95 



Galetta and adds much to the variety and beauty of the scenery by 

 causing a series of interesting falls at the point of intersection by the 

 Mississippi. The power furnished by these falls is utilized to operate 

 grist and woolen mills in the village ; the long lines of comfortable 

 looking frieze displayed upon the stretchers testified to activity in 

 business. 



It may hardly be taken for granted that all the excursionists were 

 true field naturalists, and therefore came solely to pry into nature's 

 secrets, From the happy appearance of many interesting groups of 

 from two to a dozen persons who were not communing with nature it is 

 safe to say that secrets of another order were made, interchanged and 

 investigated during the afternoon. However that may be, it was a 

 well satisfied party which gathered at six o'clock at the call of the 

 President in Whyte's beautiful grove 'neath " the murmuring pines and 

 the hemlocks " in fact to hear an account of the different "finds" by the 

 leaders of the different sections. 



It was much to be regretted that Geology and Entomology were 

 not represented owing to absence or modesty on the part of the 

 leaders. 



Prof. Prince, Dominion Commissioner of Fisheries, spoke interest- 

 ingly regarding some specimens which he had succeeded in capturing. 

 In the Botanical section an interesting collection was exhibited by 

 Messrs. Whyte and Craig. 



Among the specimens collected were good representations of the 

 Wild Orange Red Lily, L. Phiiadelphicum, which Mr Whyte recom- 

 mended for garden cultivation, and the Carolina or thornless rose, 

 R. Carolina. Flowering branches of PoientiUa fruticosa, shrubby five 

 finger, were also shown and described by Mr. Whyte as a most 

 desirable shrub and one whose beauty was enhanced by cultivation. 



This region seemed to be particularly rich in climbing plants, as 

 Mr. Craig extolled the merits of four useful and ornamental species, 

 mentioning Virginia creeper, Ampelopsis quinquefolia ; Climbing Hitter 

 Sweet, Celastrus scandens ; Moonseed, Menispermum Canadense ; and 

 Climbing Bindweed, Polygonum cilinode. Several honeysuckles 

 were shown in fruit and in flower, the most beautiful at that time being 



