BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
Vou. IX. JANUARY, 1884. ; ano. “I. 
A Botanical Holiday in Nova Scotia. I. 
BY T. J. W. BURGESS, M. D, 
to the scenic beauties of a comparatively little traveled region, I y 
aware, but give them in the earnest hope that they may serve as a stimulus to- 
duce some one than myself to undertake such a wor n their 
while to Mr. Sereno Watson and Professor D. C. Eaton, for aid in determining 
some of the plants enumerated, thanks are also due.] 
Granted a three months’ leave of absence from my official 
duties, came the question how best to spend it. e numerous: 
methods suggesting were finally sifted down to two: a visit to 
the “old country,” as we Canadians, copying our English sires, 
still love to call the land of their birth, or a'trip through Nova. 
Scotia with my friend, Professor Macoun, who was about to make 
an investigation of the flora of that region. A love of nature, 
combined with a knowledge of the fact that a chance to “do” the 
Maritime Provinces in such excellent company, both socially and 
scientifically, might never occur again, decided me in favor of 
the latter scheme 
Having joined company with the Professor and his son ut 
Movutreal, we left there by the Intercolonial Railway on the 
evening of June 7th, 1883, and in the morning found ourselves 
speeding swiftly through the picturesque scenery of the lower St. 
Lawrence. Not the least striking feature of the landscape were 
the typical French villages. where the quaint old houses, with 
their gaily painted, sharp pitched roofs, curving gracefully from 
the projecting eaves, nestled so quietly, unchanged since the days 
when the Bourbon lilies waved above “La Nouvelle France.” 
Everywhere along the track we noticed Rhododendron Rhodora, 
on, in great abundance, and often for miles, the bogs, stretching 
far as the eye could see on each side, were a mass of purple 
