October, 1908 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



227 



best yet. All the fruits in season were 

 shown. The arrangement was about all that 

 could be desired. The display was put up 

 J with the idea of showing the public what 

 "bie province can grow. All the plates, 

 packages, bottles and so forth, were ar- 

 langed to the best advantage. The exhib- 

 li included a great collection of peaches 

 jnd plums. Mr. W. T. Macoun, of the 

 Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, con- 

 ributed some excellent specimens of early 

 Ipples. The Ontario Agricultural College 

 pad an exhibit of particular educational 

 jalue in its display of insects and fungous 

 Jiseases injurious to fruits and vegetables. 



Vansportation — Its Evolution 



It is a far cry from the ox-cart of 60 years 

 go to the International Limited or the Im- 

 |>erial Express of to-day, and yet it is not 

 |o very far after all. Fifty years of devel- 

 ftpment has made a wonderful change in 

 "le methods of transportation in Canada. 

 3team and electricity have made it possible 

 Po travel by land at a rate of 60 or more 

 liles an hour and all has been accomplish- 

 fed in little more than half a century. 

 _ It is fully recognised that upon the dev- 

 ■elopment of the railway systems largely de- 

 pends the progress of our country. Many of 

 us, however, overlook the fact that similar 

 development has been going on amongst the 

 ocean going vessels and, after all, have 

 these not been tiie pioneers, so to speak, 

 who originally came to spy out the land 

 wliose wonderful progress has made Canada 

 a nation. 



If it be a far cry from tlie ox-cart to the 

 modern locomotive it is a still farther cry 

 from the caravels of "Columbus" to the 

 modern Turbiner. It is impossible to write 

 a review of the evolution of the steamship 



without introducing the names of the 



Allans. 



As far back as 1822 we find Captain Alex 

 Allan on his first voyage to Quebec on the 

 brig "Jean." Eight years later this ser- 

 vice had been increased by four larger ves- 

 sels and so on down through the interven- 

 ing years the Allan service has been im- 

 proved until to-day the Allan line has over 

 30 vessels aggregating 176,000 tons. The 

 turbine steamer "Victorian" (12,000 tons) 

 recently completed a record trip in which 

 the vessel steamed at times 19 knots an 

 hour and at an average of 18.77 knots 

 throughout the voyage or a little over 5X 

 days from port to port. It is estimated 

 that since the founding of this line of 

 steamers the Allans have carried 1,500,000 

 passengers from Europe. This forms no 

 small proportion of the entire population 

 of Canada and speaks well for the pouular- 

 ity of the line. There will probably be 

 many readers of this article who have 

 crossed to this new world in the early days 

 by the Allan Line, and to them the names 

 of such vessels as the "Canadian," "North 

 American," "Anglo Saxon," "Pomeranian," 

 "Scandinavian," "Sardinian," "Mongo- 

 lian," "Numidian" and "Parisian," will 

 cling to their memory as a pleasing recol- 

 lection of the tie that bound them to the 

 motherland. Many of these vessels have 

 been replaced by much larger and more 

 modern ships, until the Allan Line is now 

 looked upon as the great connecting link 

 between Canada and Britain. In the last 

 12 years the Allan Line has acquired and 

 constructed 12 ships, namely the "Victor- 

 ian," "Virginian," "Corsican," "Tunisian," 

 "Grampian," "Hesperian," "Ionian," 

 "Pretorian," "Sicilian," "Corinthian," 

 "Hibernian" and "Hungarian," aggregat- 

 ing 104,500 tons. 



Not only has the line looked after the 



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