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Though cut off in the full vigor of manhood, his life work 

 apparently only fairly begun, he has left many evidences of 

 the careful and painstaking manner by which his horticultural 

 W'Ork was characterized. The following is a list of his most 

 important publications, the principal of which have been pub- 

 lished in the reports of the Montreal Horticultural Society: 

 "Ornamental and Timber Trees not Natives of the Province of 

 Quebec, " being a comprehensive list of those species of possible 

 value to Canadian planters; "Report on Russian Fruits," a 

 plain unvarnished tale giving descriptions and first impressions 

 of the Russian apples and their value ; ''Hasty Notes on the 

 Trees and Shrubs of Northern Europe," a concise descriptive 

 list of the hardiest East European trees and shrubs ; ''Rus- 

 sian Apples Imported by the Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, in 1870," a laborious work of translating and com- 

 paring Russian opinions with the experience of American 

 growlers; "Nomenclature of the Russian Apples," a work 

 undertaken at the instance of the American Pomological So- 

 ciety, of "Translating and Rendering into Euphonious English 

 Unpronounceable Russian Names, also Throwing out Syno- 

 nyms ;" " Fruits for the Cold North," compiled after personal 

 visits to the principal fruit growing districts of the northwest- 

 ern states, contains a brief description of the varieties best 

 adapted to northern latitudes. In addition to the above, we 

 have from his pen many interesting papers, mostly descrip- 

 tive of new and little known fruits and plants of foreign coun- 

 tries. The Bishop of Quebec writes of him : " He was one 

 of my first boys at Lennoxville, and I have always had a most 

 affectionate remembrance of him. Mr. Williams and I en- 

 joyed beyond description a visit of a few days to him at Ab- 

 botsford, but indeed all my remembrances of him were colored 

 by the atmosphere of his kindly and genial nature. He had, 

 too, a force of character which is something far higher than 

 good nature, and which, directed as it was to the improvement 

 of our fruit culture, made him a public benefactor, and I was 

 proud of him." 



Professor J. L. Budd, of Ames, Iowa, wTites : "The one 

 thing that struck me most forcibly in my long and close rela- 

 tions with him w^as his modesty of character. He contributed 

 ^500 towards my expenses (Russian trip), yet he at first con- 

 veyed the impression that the sum was furnished by the friends 



