SOME NOTABLE TREES IN CANADA. 



as Goderich. The Custard ap- 

 ple, the Sassafras and the Sour 

 Gum grow in the mild spray 

 laden atmosphere of Niagara 

 Falls. Queen Victoria Park, at 

 the Falls, contains some rare 

 trees under cultivation, among 

 these are the Paulownia, the 

 Chinese Cypress and a fine 

 specimen of the Umberella 

 Magnolia. This is perhaps the 

 only magnolia of its kind in 

 Canada and has beautiful white 

 flowers from four to six inches 

 across in June. At the resi- 

 dence of Mr. Suckling, College 

 street, Toronto, there is a Mag- 

 nolia which when clothed in its 

 glory of pink and white flowers, 

 attracted a great deal of atten- 

 tion. A tulip tree, some sixty 

 feet in height, grows close to 

 the road on the grounds of the 

 Leslie Bros. Nursery, East To- 

 ronto. Hundreds of blossoms 

 which are somewhat like green 

 tulips, make it a sight worth seeing in 

 eaily summer. Though large for a cul 

 tivated specimen, this tree is small in 

 comparison with forest representatives of 

 its species along the Niagara River. 



The forest trees of Eastern Canada 

 are not particularly remarkable for their 

 size or age. They have their rise, pro- 

 gress, and decay in a much shorter time 

 than European trees, and a tree two 

 hundred years old is a rarity. Here 

 and there, however, are trees solitary or 

 in groups, that are worthy of note. On 

 the road between Cobden and Beach 

 bury, in Eastern Ontario, stands a huge 

 elm ; near Windsor there are some large 

 ash trees ; a great maple, the largest 

 specimen of our national tree of which 

 we know, is a feature of the road from 

 Picton to the sand banks. 



Fig. 1661. — An Old Apple Tree at Waterloo. 



The wild cherry, though not a native 

 of this continent, sometimes attains a 

 large size, though to vie with the great 

 specimens some 14 feet in circumference 

 that Pennsylvania boasts, we can only 

 instance in our own country one about 

 three feet in diameter that formerly grew 

 on the shores of Balsam Lake. The 

 oldest Black Walnut in Ontario, of those 

 grown by man is on the farm of Mr. W. H. 

 Dempsey at Trenton and was planted 

 about 1800. Of mature trees in Canada 

 the smallest perhaps is a dwarf evergreen 

 in the Horticultural Gardens, Toronto ; 

 though some forty years of age this is 

 only about a foot in height. It was 

 brought from Japan some years ago by 

 Mr. Geo. Anderson a commissioner of 

 the Dominion Government. Japanese 

 gardeners make a large use of dwarf 



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