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former trip and making such additional importations as in his 

 added experience he thought advisable. He also, on this 

 journey, made a study of the fruits of Norway, Denmark, 

 Sweden and the adjacent islands. In July, i88g, he left Abbots- 

 ford on what proved to be his last journey. His route was 

 across the continent to British Columbia, taking steamer from 

 that point to Yokohama. It was his intention to make a 

 study of the fruits of northern China, Japan and India. In 

 this he succeeded, though laboring under many difficulties, it 

 being the summer of the many floods in China, which made the 

 mountain roads almost impassable, From China, Japan and 

 India he sent home numerous packages containing seeds and 

 scions of plants which interested him as being useful and orna- 

 mental. It was on reaching Cairo, Egypt — thus completing a 

 tour of the world, having visited tnis point via England in 1867, 

 —that he was attacked by la grippe, which developed into dou- 

 ble pneumonia resulting in death on the 8th of March, after an 

 illness of six days. Writing to friends at home on the 6th, two 

 days before his death, he says : ''I had hoped to have seen 

 you all again, but am ill and do not expect to see Canada 

 again. We do not like to do things this way." It certainly 

 was hard, after accomplishing his self imposed task, to die thus 

 with his face turned toward home. 



He was an active worker in a number of horticultural socie- 

 ties. The Montreal Horticukural Society owes its present 

 prosperous condition to his untiring energy and executive 

 ability. Through his instrumentality several county associa- 

 tions were organized which have aided largely in the dissemi- 

 nation of horticultural knowledge and the furthering of fruit 

 interests. As a member of the Council of Agriculture for Prov- 

 ince of Quebec, he assisted in obtaining grants of money 

 which were of prime importance to the early welfare of these 

 societies. His generous nature was fully exemphfied by con- 

 stant donations in a quiet unostentatious way to various 

 charitable and public institutions. The Redpath Museum of 

 McGill college is indebted to him for many interesting acquisi- 

 tions from Florida, West Indies, China and Japan. 



On his farm, at Abbotsford, he had collected, undoubtedly, 

 the best collection of hardy fruits, trees and ornamental shrubs 

 in Canada. This estate is now in the hands of Wm. Craig, 

 for twenty years his farm manager. 



