IN A CANADIAN FOREST 
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as a flavouring for soup, etc. It is not yet cultivated half so 
much as it deserves. 
The above enumeration of the principal modifications the wild 
cabbage has undergone since it was first induced to change its 
primary form, and become great, is, I am fully aware, far from 
being complete. Gardeners have crossed and recrossed to such 
an extent that it is a wonder to me names have held out so long 
for conferring on them the dignity (or indignity often times), 
whereby we may recognise and distinguish the good from the 
bad, the delicate from the acrid. The task of wading through 
so many irrelevant names would not only have been very painful 
to myself but would have aroused your worthy ire to an ungovern¬ 
able pitch, resulting perhaps in an Irish Wake, with candles, 
coffin, and all accessories ! 
This was beyond my intentions, when I set out to write this 
paper at your secretary’s desire and I am resolved it shall so 
remain. I therefore beg your further kind attention to the 
second part of mv discourse. 
(To he continued .) 
IN A CANADIAN FOREST. 
W 
By H. K. Swann. 
Early on the morning of one 15th of April, I started from 
Halifax (Nova Scotia) for a tramp through the great woods 
running back from the Bedford Basin. 
The day opened very dull and cloudy and there was not a breath 
of wind to be felt, while there seemed to be a promise of snow 
later in the day. I left home soon after daybreak and after a 
short walk struck the woods near Three-mile House, on the Bed¬ 
ford Basin, and from there I passed through continuous dense 
woods in a north-westerly direction all the morning. The surface 
here was extremely irregular, the whole district consisting of a 
succession of granitic outcrops. Almost every ridge or rise of 
the ground was merely a protruding mass of granite, while bould¬ 
ers and fragments of every conceivable size and shape covered 
the ground in every direction. 
Soon after entering the woods I came upon a party of Golden- 
crowned Kinglets (Regulus satrapa) in a dense under-growth of 
young firs and shot one or two examples: This little bird is in 
appearance and habits very similar to our goldcrest (R. cristatus ) 
the chief difference, to my mind, being in the larger size and 
stouter bill of the American bird. Some of the firs here were of 
