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MUSKOK. 



latei', Musk oka, from the .Missasaga 

 chief, whose name was sometimes 

 spelled " Mesqua-Okee." Farmers and 

 fruit growers surely need recreation, as 

 well as merchants and professional 

 men ; and a week spent in such a 

 region as this, with every care and 

 thought of work or business wholly 

 erased fx-om the mind by the charming 

 surroundings, and by the enchaning 

 amusements of boating, fishing, bathing 

 or roaming the woods, will rejuvenate 

 the jaded and worn spirits, and refresh 

 the v/hole physical system. 



It will be a mistake to suppose the 

 Muskoka district wholly unadapted to 

 the cultivation of fruit. We have many 

 intelligent and prosperous members of 

 our Association living at Gravenhurst, 

 Bracebridge, Bala, Glen Orchard, etc,, 

 who have learned, through the reading 



A LAKE. 



of the Canadian Horticulturist, and 

 the Annual Repoi'ts, the varieties of 

 fruits best adapted to these colder sec- 

 tions of Ontario. In apples they are 

 growing the Haas, Tetofsky, Wealthy, 

 Duchess, etc. Most varieties of plums 

 grow well and bear abundant crops. 

 Strawberries succeed exceedingly well, 

 and although our finer varieties of rasp- 

 berries and blackberries are too tender, 

 yet the woods abound in hardy natives 

 of fine size and flavor, which yield such 

 quantities of fruit as to render the 

 garden cultivation of them quite un- 

 called for. Being unavoidably detained 

 near one of the islands near Bala, the 

 captain gave us all permission to land 

 for a couple of hours. Everyone en- 

 joyed the ramble among the rocks and 

 bushes, and not less, the feast upon the 

 huckleberries which grow in great pro- 



