122 THE CANADIAN HOETICULTUKIST. 



bearing every year. Eev. Mr, Quinn has the honor of being the 

 successful pioneer peach grower in the County of ISForfolk. From 

 about a thousand trees only four years planted he is said to have 

 netted over a thousand dollars last year above all expenses. The 

 prospects for the coming season promise a much richer harvest. Many 

 are encouraged by his success to plant extensively. Mr. A. Ball set 

 out eight hundred trees this spring, and many others are planting from 

 fifty to five hundred. The railroads from Port Dover, intersecting 

 all the leading lines of the country, facilitate the shipping of peaches^ 

 and make their culture a possibility in this section. Much greater 

 possibilities, however, await the horticulturist in the production of 

 grapes and the manufacture of wine. This is almost the northern 

 limit of the great grape producing belt of America, and wherever there 

 is a clay loam within a few miles of the lake, grapes can be produced 

 of the finest flavor, with enough of sacharine matter and abundantly 

 rich in the wholesome acids to make a wine for general consumption 

 to supersede other liquors. It ought to be produced in such abundance 

 as to drive beer, whiskey and other vile compounds into the background. 

 Pure, wholesome native wine is the best promoter of temperance, the 

 cure for dyspepsia and delirium tremens, and the restorative for 

 patients suffering from the effects of chronic malaria. 



In the same latitude as Italy, Portugal or the south of Prance, we 

 have a climate tempered in summer by the cool breeze off the lake, 

 and mellowed in winter by the vicinity of so large- a body of fresh 

 water. Our soil is capable of producing all kinds of grain crops, and 

 if we have not so deep an alluvial soil as is sometimes found in the 

 west, that is to our advantage, for we are able to find a bottom for our 

 roads. If we can not boast of fifteen feet of black muck we have 

 fifteen inches of good earth, and that is sufficient for all practical 

 purposes. It would cost more to bring anything below that to the 

 surface than to buy a new farm, so we need not covet these deep lands 

 ©f the west. 



This is the country in which to enjoy life. Farmers can live if 

 they choose as well as the best bloods of Europe, dress as well and 

 drive as fine horses ; and their wives and daughters are as attractive 

 and accomplished as any class in the world. It is doubtful if any 

 ordinary society in any country in the world can show a better 

 average of ladies than Ontario. Many of them dress in the latest 



