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terial on a vessel bound for home, but had the disappointment of 

 never hearing of it afterward. 



He next visited Montreal, meeting Frederick Pursh, and 

 then proceeded on foot to Albany, where he took a boat for New 

 York. Later he explored parts of the New Jersey " barrens," of 

 which he writes that "they present many rarities to the botanist 

 and gave me more gratification than any part of America that I 

 have ever seen." After a short stay in Philadelphia he returned 

 to New York and again attempted to send a collection home. 

 But this met the fate of the first one and never reached its desti- 

 nation. 



At this juncture his lack of money obliged him to turn 

 schoolmaster and the winter found him teaching in the Mohawk 

 Valley. Quitting his place in the spring he went to Montreal, 

 but failing to receive assistance promised by Pursh, was obliged 

 to fall back upon his trade as gardener. At this he worked all 

 summer with the exception of two days in each week which he 

 devoted to botanizing. In autumn he once more attempted to 

 send his plants home, but the vessel was wrecked in the St. Law- 

 rence and everything lost. 



Undaunted by these failures he again went to work and by 

 the following June had amassed fifty dollars. With this, and a 

 similar sum borrowed from a friend, he paid another visit to 

 New York and then returning to Montreal, set out on foot for a 

 journey to Niagara Falls, along Lake Erie, through New York 

 and Pennsylvania to Pittsburg, up the Allegheny to Olean, thence 

 to Onondaga, Kingston and Montreal. Here he packed up his 

 plants and embarking on a vessel with them, at last got safely 

 home. The diary which he kept on this journey was published 

 in 1897 by his son, but the botanical journal, containing his notes 

 and observations on the plants found, was destroyed by fire. 



In 1824 Goldie was employed by the Russian government to 

 assist in forming the botanical garden at St. Petersburg. Six 

 years later he again visited Russia and was invited by the gov- 

 ernment to investigate and report on the flora of parts of that 

 country, but he was obliged to decline because of business en- 

 gagements at home. His American trip, however, had given 

 him such a favorable opinion of the country that in 1844 he 

 moved with his family to Ayr, Ontario, where he resided until 

 his death in 1896, in the 94th year of his age. 



John Goldie is best known to fern students through the dis- 



