268 EOCKY MOUNTAIN BEAN. 



great ravages upou the young turnip — drought is said 

 to prevail in this province more frequently than at 

 home, at the time for sowing the seed. There is 

 greater difficulty also, it is alleged, in keeping the roots 

 during winter than with us. Such difficulties, however, 

 appear more formidable at first ; experience generally 

 shows how they are to be overcome. The last-men- 

 tio*ied difficulty has often been put to me in the pro- 

 vince of New Brunswick, chiefly by persons new to 

 the turnip. Yet even there I have met many practical 

 farmers, who had fairly entered upon the culture, and 

 had experienced its benefits in the winter-feeding of 

 their stock, to whom the preservation of their turnips, 

 in cellars of a properly adjusted temperature, had pre- 

 sented no difficulty whatever. 



Among the horticultural productions v»^ere two which 

 were new to me. One was the Eocky Mountain bean, 

 which had pods from 12 to 18 inches in length, growing 

 in pairs, and about the thickness of a common French 

 bean. The seed has the appearance of a small kidney- 

 bean. The other was labelled Canadian Coffee. It is a 

 species of pea growing in a small inflated pod. It has the 

 flavour of a pea, with a bitterish after-taste, and when 

 roasted, has much of the odour and taste of coffee. 

 It grew readily and ripened in the neighbourhood of 

 Toronto, and may possibly come to be economically 

 important. 



On the whole, as I have said, this Kingston show 



was very creditable to the province of Upper Canada. 



The thousands of people who came to it, the stock and 



implements exhibited, the respectable appearance, the 



orderly behaviour, the comfortable looks and cheerful 



facQj' f both male and female, spoke for a state of 



\^'^ . t least not very unflourishing. The British 



V^ rurerin Upper Canada than in the State of New 

 can be tL /^ i i -r^ i i 



November"^' as i have already remarked, Dutch and 



