January 15, 1859.] 
, th 
mo apers. Wan had been ga athered and A 
all of wh hich had nearly 
still 
t of my rec col- 
bee 
22 the surprise I felt at ind 
bapor e fruit which does 
but perhaps in 
and of such — t flavour as in 
my 
THE GARDENERS’ 
is feat of horticulture 56 Melons (a; mouth, which at that time might be 8 teet above the day 
The chambers were about 9 feet | expose 
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1 in = id river. 
hig d their ceilings 3 feet below 
eie was obtained through 
as covered wi tha 
the prairie lev 
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neat 
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Frost never entered them, and he found no difficulty 
i vin uanti 
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lus pro 
owes On the 10th o of Anges one Melon weighed 
11 
urp 
I find in otes, artis the | Te many 5 of Potato oes sa 4. ushel, an 
8 her 10: n Mr. had c rted them 9 m Th im e in- 
Logan's veral Melons which were g ed MAN oe success ua Mr. Gow 
ir, withou rotectio cá Mackenzie 8 heat, but I fou — hen vom that 
informed me that this year he raised fr ne seed 30 een he employed was y not t 
he price of Wheat at the time of 
tion of the Melo thout any kind o 
assistance pem as pen to the production 
ture was 4s. 150. sterli ing » bushel, but last year at the 
same time it had b s. 6d. sterling. 
them 
wedes) were magni rh four o weighe 
of 
wp of a country for agricultural purposes; and in v 
W this connection I have ventured to intr e cho M 
eranc ae. relating to its cultivation and growth ^ 
T ot 
70 lbs., 
a hole in the ceili fag; There does 
em 
welling-house, and —— it ad the river. 
His Turnips been told 
em ed | ha 
—Chief. 
y er seen | th sin, hief's e. Allthese le 
“Of ~ le valley of Red River I find it impossible to before r. Gowler very kindly turned them up out „5 2 e pb tes Tor 
k in any other terms than those which may express of the soil wherever I pointed out. I counted 13, l hat Rae qe m nt here or why we 
tion. The ription which 16 Potatoes, averaging 3} inches in diameter, at | Hig" our def sid Bd our ee Lay BM i Que 
^ E A r y " y this route? 4 
revious to my arrival there certainly did | each root. They were a round white-skinned variety, | government gave orders to our chief and he told us to 
not in any way prepare me for — n country - onu be "€ 10 p. in ter : as 1 250 — dep ns rou we to > He fic pec Fer 1 — it — tee 
nf occupied and control those been * Englis te.“ The atoes were planted on the 
interests, no one seeks to deny, have been oppose d to Ist June, and were ready for eating on the 16th or Why de — Y ar - * oe e ee 
what may be terr 18th August. The vini col was rarely taken out | Port. iri e ive every explan to you; he will return im. 
he outer world. Ient irely concur in the bri ef but e of t TOU efore th of October. The | three weeks. Tong Sid think yos ‘want to do something m 
essi c i tion given to me by an English settler | great ne to the urnip "erop is the cut-worm 2 R We " ho of ag te E" You ^4 became ae 
Assiniboine, that the valley of Red River, i (the grub of an elater). well on|is the shortest, and we have to obey our instructions. 
rtion belonging to its great affluent, Mr. Gowler’s farm, and some of rare dimensions were | We as to send us one of your young me 
dise of fertility” The summer climate of this | growing in his garden. H splendid | how on tis ed Tomon pay der deri pno ma e 
very well adapted for agricultural | crop of Melone, the seed be — sow open air at your q ; , but iat sos how the Indisns are treated 
mmer temperature is nearly 4° the end of May, and — fruit gathered pre the Ist | away. The white comes, looks at their flowers, their 
han at Toronto, as ascertained by a compari- September. At the of m the Melons had trees, and their rivers; ; others p an him; th Jande Se 
ponding observations. Indian Corn, if pro- all been consumed, ha: I ha veni opportunities ot Tou py g 0 by the ur dis vtt adi las. hitherto — 1 
{perly cultivated, and - early variety selected, may | tasting and enjoying this fruit, at F E ard have told you all.—Reply. We paid you for your corn in 
3 ways be relied on elon grows with the utmost | elsewhere, n the Assiniboine yea ver, E € ee 2 — you —.— that nf e — . io gi A an 
a luxuriance without an artificial aid, and ripens per. | every instance they were grown in the open it with- 
tly before t the end of A T And yet e" Mine s CE artificial aid ders weeding, from the time path is ie true, , itey Americans ( as (Long K piis Ls M ea 
ters of dinata; we — lanted to the maturation of the these white men are doin member, we are your friends, 
Een ——— "i hear of aber erty and early autum fruit. jowler insisted on my tasti ting his x M s and v dn TES be g Say that 3 des know you had good 
s deplore lamented, and held up as one of the Š : 
iver. All kinds of farm pro- ee as tolerable; the tobacco, whic s grow re so 1 sab A gie T eed r. HAZLITT's 
e common in Canada succeed admirably in the dis. | the  Sieighhourhood and highly prized 3 Mr. Gowler: o f ble toti 
: ia; these are Wheat, Oats, Barley, was dreadfully strong, and would i nvolve, I should work on British Columbia* to favourable notice. 
Flax, Hemp, Potatoes, root crops, | think, long training in ord Qum e a taste for its| Although a very imperfect compilatio by 8 
id all kinds of common garden vegetables. The | qualities. Nevertheless, Mr. Gowler preferred it toj tleman unacquainted with t it e 
——— not seen sur- some excellent Fig-leaf which I offered him; he on ly work to which the public can have access ; 
incial fairs ; mer M remarked he grown and prepared it himself, | and it contains long extraets from - esed yu 
the weight of some of these reductions of t and knew what it I may here relate, with a view tion made by 60 eee T 
farm will be foun nd in the text, — to show how long old associations linger in the recol- Royal Geographical Society on the eje of 
merous — — y this report. e cha- lections of the European portion of the population in Vancouy is oe 
8 ot — p — As. por of the — en fi n, that 11 down to ta — 
n idges, cannot . Itis a ric owler turned inquiringly is wife saying, * É 
eep, on a lightish | where is my plate?? ‘Oh, John! you would not think es vga LEAF. 
d alluvial clay about ce, epsing — — ol sitting i table with genter en ? 0 858.) 
or drift clay te level of the seemed puzzled for a his son-in-law and| I NEVER like doing ‘things by halves, that is to say, 
the rivers and creeks in: ed. I fre- ee —.— mA in silence from different corners | when my advice is — d given, I am always 
e soil some tias distant from the | of t He cast a hasty glance around, and the E s ary = e. This 1 is the only 
T on t ap, — feelin of independence 5 — nl ht showed | plea ave offer for paying a second visi 
d I invariably found - a portion to exhi * canes. — — imed, Give itch fà Ki air and a | Castle to see my yours & friend ‘Tom, who when l 
lity — oe by fertile paua plate; am I not a gentleman, »- o? Is not this my parh ted was ** haltin; 
d saw i exceei 3 acres, | house, my Prec and t my vietuals? Give me a| Never afraid to show my face, I walked up to the 
las wil appear from — f the map of plate, Mr. Gowler had been in Rupert's Land for I| garden door as bold as brass. “ Goo d morning,” said I.— 
greater portion of the rich and avail. | think 23 ges a m rein was See id “Good morning, sir," said Tom, *gladto see you. Come 
prairie land — the valley of th iver lies shire. He co e Assiniboine River to be a in, come and is. Following Tom at the rate of 
territory, while the valley of the Assi- «Paradise of f fertility, d. all that pase wanted in his four miles an j ihon a word, we soon 
is wholly within it. The * of the valley opinion to make it a region which, if known, wou ld ri ue at the Calceolaria pi i ee a we last. parted. 
er above the leve e sea 1 ttract a l g ig t “ now sir,” id Tom, 
or 320 feet less than the dlonititin given to it words ‘market’ and ‘labour? I — to introduce “what de e think o' that? That rather er Hicks em, don't 
sions y, and from which erroneous conclu- | here some remarks which Mr. Gowler made, as he Five hundr E seven there, sir, and there 
Shee ne its —— — in relation to agrieulture, | accompanied me to the gate of his far, v where my pee as one looked o’er its shoulder. There they are, 
s an agricultural country, I have | horse was tied. ‘Look at that prairie; 10,000 head of | sir, you can see for youself; I did as you said, and I 
expressing the strongest —— cattle might feed = fatten there for pre x Ilain't s zi "d | MU — it, MP said 
ay rank amongst t most | found it wo e I could enclose 50, 100, or 500| I. “Now don’t you thi a now. is 
es, and from prety v get 36 i 40 hes of worth a Fly Leaf?"—* Worth y Leaf ?—wi 
art of the Report we have still M € - d 2 — aad Indian Corn, | a five pound ms to me ie How would Veniens 
etails concernin i arley, Oats, mp, Hops, Turnips, obse ey e sa e. R 
ountry, which already no s [Ash 1055 anything you wish, and to any amount, but what would do? I find I I B em rennet 
rous settlers, schools, cler FEN TA p be the use? There are no markets; it’s a c plan of off in that way, w why I 
D me ; the . th , my Whent is taken, and my Potatoes I may have 1 70 stock: a nation." “eYou may do that very, amy, iy. Tum 
rough. 10 | give to the pigs. If we had only a market yon'd have | said I, “if y Wha j 
inte bis s wing account is of the highest to travel long before you would. see the like of yos in the m mixt b m * Cauliflowers, sir; athe 
gee migrating cultivators :— ese prairies about the Assiniboine.’—The substantial | strange, isn’t it, that. they should want the same treat- 
Gini: rms which I visited was occupied by | character of the barn, vel and piggeries, all con- t Cal larias in win This bei is a deal of 
. nie it is situated on the Assiniboine, nine] structed of wood, their neatness and cleanliness, the | m: t arpoee ; it’s too big for a 
` Garry, and is marked on the map | admirable arrangement ES the hammels for cattle and pit ‘and it’s too small for a dose i fact $P i it- isn vp d 
panies this report. On the ds h Septem- the sheds for sheep, all showed how far a little energ "S pecu I wish it were down. 
— . ice wler's hous and determination, instructed by tbe experience of not use it as a propagati aree. Te cannot 
ons were over: ay — earlier years, would go in reprodu amidst the m a better. are short of Verbenas, you say ; 
giak yard was fled s vith — of Wheat and hay; | boundless prairies of iboia the com and enjoy- don’t you want an else ? "—* Of I do; 
Was very roomy, was crammed with | ments which by no ns rule among the I wants all I can get in the way of bedding Wel, 
„ Pumpkins i and | small farmers of Great Britain. Ihave brought speci- | Tom, there are two beautiful slate shelves,” said I, “ not 
shortly to to | mens of Mr. Gowler’s Barley, eat, prairie hay, too far from the with, let me see, ledges about 
had constructed by — co ay seed, which I took at rando m 3 i high. Now, if * 5 fill S — 
igh bank of the Assiniboine, and | in the L or from the garden, where the last- iniit. with clean-washed drift sand, put through 
ver. The drain was sup fra herb was growing largely. I —— to say sieve, you might here strike bedding- ont stuff p" 
tightly fitting trap, whieh was closed | that a ie days before my ied the grasshoppers had x British Columbia and Vancouver Island, se with a Map. 
ring above its | arrived from the south-west, and consumed in a single By W. C. Hazurrr. 12mo. Routledge. 
every green leut in the garden, which remamed 
d to their a ttacks,”’ 
ne rather 5 fact remains to be a 
o gr 
inel "E the su 
f ip^ or a 
and an I 
d ey se und m 
to smoke, before yc: Ne shal 
out half-an 
voted to the 
distributio the filling of pi 8 
ry the S tobacc and 
oye o grow Wheat the smoke, after e the Chief resumed. 5 We do - 
heat; — had grown 56 clem pr ear to think you t you 
T 
ap o-day, we wish t w what 
doing in vite the rediere beh are these mens 
are — ministers, Surveyors, or Akk are p^ yea: We 
are in E e ey to Red Hiver, and ha 
