Flora and Fauna 



1894 

 Guest 



1895 



Cameron 



I thought these acres of cascades and rapids even more 

 astonishing than the actual falls; which pictures and panoramas 

 have given me an idea of; but I had no conception of a river 

 resembling repeated shores of an angry sea. 



These sister islands were fascinating. Little rocky paths 

 wound about them, bordered with Maple, Balsam, Mulberry and 

 Black Walnut trees, as green and fresh as possible, though there 

 were not many flowers. Pink Crane's bill, the inevitable Dande- 

 lion, a bright scarlet Columbine, and Podophyllum, whose large 

 leaves make the children call it the umbrella plant, were nearly 

 all I noticed. On Goat Island is a considerable growth of 

 sumach. 



1895 



CAMERON, RODERICK. Catalogue of plants which have been found 

 growing without cultivation in the park and its outlying territories. . . . 

 (Ann. rep'ts of the com'rs for the Queen Victoria Niagara Falls park. 

 1895. 10:app.) 



A more complete list than that in the ninth report, but not exhaustive, 

 since only such plants as had been mounted and were actually on evidence 

 in the herbarium were included. The whole number consisted of " 107 

 families, comprising 487 genera and 1,101 distinct species." 



1901 

 1901 Day, DAVID F. The flora and fauna of Niagara Falls. (The Niagara 



Day book. N. Y.: 1901. Pp. 158-177.) 



The traveller, who seeks for exhibitions of the grander forces 

 of nature, will find his wishes abundantly gratified at Niagara. 

 The fall of the waters of one of the greatest rivers of the world 

 over a precipice of more than one hundred and fifty feet in 

 height, and the constantly growing record of their power to 

 channel through the enduring rock, will prove to him an absorb- 

 ing, yet perplexing, subject for study. But the tourist, who takes 

 enjoyment in the shadows of a forest, almost unchanged from 

 its natural condition, in the stateliness and symmetry of individual 

 trees planted by the hand of Nature herself, in the beauty and 



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