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and October ; for success with them, you must rely on good 

 dogs and a sure aim, and a plethoric game bag will be your 

 reward. Curlew, teal, widgeon, hares, and in the forests of 

 the extreme south-west, where, . free from the growth of 

 underbrush, the mighty maples and walnuts remind us of an 

 English park or woodland, wild turkeys, will be the means 

 of varying your sport. But let the traveller take one piece 

 of solemn advice : adjure wasting powder and shot in the 

 neighbourhood of cities or towns ; spring shooting and pot- 

 hunters have for the most, part extirpated the game in such 

 localities. 



A word or two as to the breed of dogs best adapted to 

 field shooting in Canada : — For snipe, quail, and woodcock, 

 the pointer has been decided to be the best ; they possess 

 more brain than setters, and consequently greater memory ; 

 the lattaer, in a dog, especially for Canadian use, is every- 

 thing, when we consider the long interval between our 

 shooting season, say from April to October, and November 

 to April again. Setters, from want of memory, get wild, and 

 require almost breaking again. Many persons assert that 

 the setter has more pluck, and that they can endure more 

 cold ; neither of these assertions, however, is correct. The 

 only other kind of dog useful in Canada for shooting pur- 

 poses is a well-bred retrieving spaniel. It is a remarkable 

 fact that in all pointers or setters imported from Great 

 Britain, however thorough-bred or thoroughly broken they 

 may be, they will for the first two or three years be good for 

 nothing here, shewing no keenness in ranging, and con- 

 stantly over-running the birds. This is attributable to the 

 dryness of the climate, and until they become acclimatized, 

 they are worthless except to breed from ; their issue will be 

 fit for work at ten months old. 



In botanical productions, and especially ferns, Upper 

 Canada is still more productive than the Lower Province. 

 In addition to most of the flowers enumerated under the 



