STOA'V CREEK AND FONTHILL ERl'lT GARDENS. 



found anywhere, which only needs better 

 shipping privileges to be ranked as first- 

 class fruit land. Even as it is, with the 

 Ci. T. R six miles distant, and the T. 

 H. & B. four, large acreages of peach 

 orchards and small fruits have been 

 planted, and give excellent returns, for 

 there is no finer peach soil in Canada. 



The country about Fonthill is rolling 

 and near by is the highest point of the 

 Niagara Peninsula, an elevation whence 

 at times lakes Erie and Ontario are both 

 discernible. 



Our frontispiece shows a view from 

 near Fonthill, looking north east, with 

 Mr. E. Morris, the nurseryman, in the 



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