MR. JONATHAN CARPENTER'S FRUIT FARM. 



N Mr. Carpenter we have a repre- 

 sentation of the first settlers in the 

 Winona section. The family came 

 to America in 1638. and in 1776 to 

 Canada, being one of the well-known 

 U. E. loyalists, and for that reason given 

 a grant of land, near the present site of 

 Mr. Carpenter's home. 



Until quite recently Mr. Carpenter 

 counted far more upon his large stock 



Nearer the house is a fine Mountain ash 

 and a large Juniper ; also a fine sample 

 of Box, about five feet in height and 

 nearly as much in diameter. The long 

 avenue of Norway Spruce (Fig. 1 107), 

 by which one approaches the house, is 

 also very pretty, and suggests a style 

 of ornamentation of the home grounds 

 quite easily worked out, but after all sel- 

 dom thought of by our country people. 



Fig. 1106. — Residence of Mk. .Ion.\thas Carpenter. 



of fine cattle and horses than upon his 

 fruit for an income. Even yet, he has 

 about sixty head, but every year he 

 devotes more and more attention to his 

 fruit, and less and less to stock raising. 

 The house was built in 1840 (Fig. 1 106), 

 and is still in excellent condition. It is 

 in the old Colonial style in which so 

 many of the early houses in Ontario 

 were built. The large tree, on the 

 right which overtops the house is a 

 magnificent specimen of Catalpa. 



.\s we remarked above, Mr. Carpenter 

 has of late become much interested in 

 fruit culture, especially in the peach, 

 and in planting out an orchard of thirty- 

 five acres, he devoted the greater portion 

 to this queen of fruits. His situation, 

 on a point jutting into Lake Ontario, 

 with water on three sides, is unusually 

 free from frosts, while its isolation 

 perhaps explains its immunity from 

 Yellows. 



The varieties are chiefly as follows in 



