THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



of the beauty of a red water lily until he 

 has seen one of these gorgeous blossoms. 

 They are rosy red (with scarlet stamens), 

 glowing by lamplight with undescribable 

 color." In the ponds at the Central 

 Prison of which our frontispiece will 

 give a good idea, there are water lilies 

 too, but they do not thrive so well as 

 at the water-power works, the water not 

 being so warm. The temperature in 

 the pond at the latter place often rises 

 to ninety or one hundred degrees 

 Fahrenheit. The Central Prison gar- 

 deners can boast however of the Vic- 

 toria Regia, with its leaves 6 feet in 

 diameter, and flowers from twelve to 

 sixteen inches across. 



One of the chief sights of floral 

 Toronto is Mr. J. H. Dunlop's establish- 

 ment. He has at present eighteen 

 greenhouses, and in a month or so when 

 the three houses under construction 

 are finished, he will have 1 10,000 square 

 feet under glass. If thetwenty-onehouses 

 were thrown into one, it would cover a 

 space nearly a mile long and seven yards 

 wide. There are to be seen 30 000 

 rose bushes, 20,000 carnations, 10,000 

 violets ; besides rhododendrons, azaleas, 

 hyacinths, tulips, daff"odils, lilies, smilax, 

 and the humble asparagus and mush- 

 room. At easter tide his houses were 

 like a beehive with their throngs of visi- 

 tors. 



Our last illustration is of the Humber 

 river, which shows it at its loveliest at 

 the close of day, the reflections in their 

 intensity reminding us of shadow River 

 Muskoka. The Humber was once 



the great highway from the Northern 

 Lake regions by which the Indians and 

 the old French colonists travelled to the 

 trading post at Toronto, the valley of 

 the Holland river forming the northern 

 portion of the trail. A favorite resort 

 for the canoeist and holiday maker, it 

 also has much interest for the botanist 

 in its diff'erent wild grotvths, water 

 lilies, cypripediums, pitcher plants and 

 many others, and for the ornithologist 

 in its varied bird life. 



Not far from the Humber is the 

 Howard House, the gift of the late Mr. 

 J. G. Howard to the city. Hard by 

 the house the monument of the donor 

 rises enclosed on one side by a massive 

 iron fence, which bears the inscription, 



" Saint Paul's Cathedral for i6o years, 

 I did enclose : 



" Oh ! stranger look with reverence, 

 Man, Man ! Unstable man, 

 It was thou who caused the severance." 



Curious relic of the past, it was part 

 of the original railing round St. Paul's, 

 London, England, and on the way 

 across the sea went to the bottom with 

 the vessel that was carrying it. Heavy 

 and cumbrous as it was, it was yet re- 

 covered and forwarded to its destina- 

 tion. A sweet wild garden surrounds 

 the house, where as we write : 



" Fair handed Spring unbosoms every grace, 

 Throws out the snow-drop and the crocus first. 

 The daisy, primose, violet darkly blue, 

 And polyanthus of unnumbered dyes." 



And here we end our rambles, realising 

 that " the speech of flowers exceeds all 

 powers of speech." 



A. E. MiCKLE. 



Maphhurst, Grimsby. 



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