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laid under contribution in aid of our plans, and many native 

 trees and shrubs were obtained by collecting on the moun- 

 tain, or by purchase from country people and from G-uil- 

 bault's nursery. At a later date Prof. Penhallow com- 

 menced a botanical garden on a portion of the grounds set 

 apart for that purpose. 



Aid was also received from friends. The late Hon. John 

 Young had imported a large number of European trees for 

 his own property at Cote St. Antoine, and liberally pre- 

 sented many healthy young plants to the College, and the 

 late Mr. William Lunn, whose zeal in gardening is well 

 known, presented rare shrubs and trees. Somewhat later, 

 Mr. Charles Gibb, having commenced his experimental farm 

 at Abbottsford, sent a number of rare species, and Major 

 Campbell of St. Hilaire, presented spruces and other trees 

 from his estate. Seeds were also collected, and a little 

 nursery of young trees was commenced in a suitable place 

 in tne ravine near Sheibrooke Street. Though neither my 

 means nor those of the College were sufficient to provide 

 proper attendance and sufficient labour, and though much 

 damage was necessarily done by the public use of the 

 grounds, yet they were beginning to present a creditable 

 appearance and contained a large number of valuable foreign 

 a> well as native trees, when the unavoidable sale of land on 

 University Street, and later, the exigencies of more direct 

 educational work, in connection with the generous bequest 

 of Mr. Workman, and the princely benefactions of Mr. W. 

 C. McDonald, terminated our attempt to have a College 

 garden and arboretum. 



It is proper to state that, before our improvements began 

 (as early as 1853), the late Mr. Sbepheard of Montreal, in 

 conjunction with the late Mr. J. Symmers, had presented to 

 the College a plan for the laying out of the grounds, 

 along with one for converting Sherbrooke Street into a 

 boulevard with four rows of trees ; which plans are still 

 pieserved. The formation of a central avenue consequent 

 on the pascage of the main ]>ipes of the reservoir through 

 the grounds, bad rendered this original plan impracticable; 



