i?0 Niagara Falls. 



head of Quebec, we meet here with the Squill, the Canada 

 or Day Lily, the Turk's Cap Lily (in rich low grounds), the 

 Iris or Blue Flag, the Daphne, the Bindweed or Convolus 

 (equal almost to the garden variety), the Canada Water 

 Leaf, the Gerardia, the Azalea (wrongly called Honeysuckle), 

 the Prickly Pear-Cactus (found on the high ridges in Essex 

 and Lambton), the Meadow Sweet, Jewel- Weed, Cistus, the 

 Nymphcea or Water Lily (in great profusion), and the Sangui- 

 naria or Bloodroot, which, like the English Snowdrop, often 

 thrusts its delicate white blossom through a thin crust of 

 snow on some sheltered bank in spring, as if impatient to 

 meet the embraces of the sun, — each and all of these grow- 

 ing, not some here,' some there, but diffused universally, lend 

 a charm to the landscape, and afford treasures to the herb- 

 alist comparatively unknown in foreign climes. 



NIAGARA FALLS. 



From earliest childhood the name of " Niagara Falls " is 

 associated with everything that is sublime and grand in 

 nature ; but to attempt to describe it conveys no more idea 

 of the grand majesty of its beauty, than a painting of it does 

 of the sound produced by the falling of its waters. To the 

 traveller entering from the United States two of the grandest 

 wonders of the world of nature and of art simultaneously 

 burst upon the view — viz., the Falls of Niagara and the 

 Suspension Bridge. The latter being the connecting link 

 between the two countries of Canada and the United States, 

 and the means by which the traveller gains access to the 

 former, must first claim attention ; on the American shore, 

 at the commencement of the bridge, is Elgin, and on the 



