In twenty-four varieties;
Gloriosa; Gardenias; Hibiscus; Inga; Ipomaea; Justicia; Lamandra;
Legastrema; Musa-Cavendishii, which we fruited - the only one fruited in
the province to this day, to my knowledge - the bunch of fruit weighed
ninety pounds; Maranta; Melastomas, Mennetties; Nymphas; Osbeekias,
Penteas, Passiflora; Peideum; Stephenotis, Streluzias; Russellea; Ruellea;
Rondilitia, Tabernaemonana; Tradescantia; Vinca; Clerodendrons, &c., &c.
In the orchid house, the following are a portion of the names of plants
grown be me: - Bletia; Bolbophyllum; Cyppripedium; Cymbedium; Catazetum;
Cattleya; Brassavoleas, Dendrobiums, Epidendrons, Aerides; Gongora;
Gomezia; Maxallaria; Oncidium, Plurathalis; Pholidota; Physosiphon;
Plurathalles; Peristerias, Ripsalis, Stanhopeas; Zygopetalum, &c., &c.
The houses containing the above were heated by hot-water pipes for
atmospheric heat and open tanks for bottom heat; they were the most
complete of the kind I have seen either in Canada or Great Britain - so
much so, that, during my stay with Mr. Atkinson, we used to produce for
Christmas and New Year's Day pine-apples, cucumbers, rhubarb, asparagus
and mushrooms, all in the same house."
[231] Mr. DeGaspe married, 1811, Susanna, daughter of Thos. Allison, Esq.,
a captain of the 6th Regiment, infantry, and of Theresse Baby, the
latter's two brother officers, Captains Ross Lewin and Bellingham,
afterwards Lord Bellingham, married at Detroit then forming part of Upper
Canada, two sisters, daughters of the Hon. Jacques Duperon Baby.
[232] The copy of Audubon's works here alluded to, was the same, we opine,
as that generously presented by the illustrious savant to Mr. Martyn,
chronometer-maker, St Peter street, - an ardent ornithologist, whose roof
sheltered the great naturalist, in Quebec in 1842.
Audubon made several excursions round Quebec to study our birds, was the
honoured guest of the late Henry Atkinson, at Spencer Wood, and visited
the collection of Canadian birds of Hon. William Sheppard, at Woodfield.
[233] His last work in the cause of natural history is the publication of
his "Tableau Synoptique des Oiseaux du Canada," got the use of schools,
which must have entailed no small amount of labour, a sequel to "Les
Oiseaux du Canada," 2 vols., 1860.
[234] These stones and inscriptions were donated to the author of "Quebec
Past and Present" - by the city authorities on taking down the City Gates.
[235] Pierre Herman Dosquet, born at Lille in Flanders in 1691, arrived in
Canada in 1721, was shortly afterwards sent a missionary to the Lake of
Two Mountains, was made a bishop in 1725, purchased Samos from Nicholas de
la Nouiller, in 1731, where he built a country house in 1732. Sold it some
years afterwards to the Quebec Seminary, visited France in 1733 and
resigned his see and left the country in 1739 and died in Paris in 1777.
[236] Judge Adam Mabane died in 1792.
[237] A fairy plot of a flower garden was laid out near the edge of the
cliff to the north-east, with a Chinese Pagoda enclosing the trunk of a
large tree at one side, and a tiny Grecian temple at the other.
[238] Probably the four-gun battery mentioned in the account of the Battle
of the Plains. We also find in a diary of the siege operations on the same
day, "A mortar and some l8-pounders were carried to Samos, three quarters
of a league from the town. Batteries were erected there, which fired
before night on the man-of-war that had come to anchor opposite, L'Ance
du Foulon, which was forced to sheer off."
[239] "Who can visit the sylvan abode, sacred to the repose of the
departed without noticing one tomb in particular in the enclosure of Wm.
Price, Esq. we allude to that of Sir Edmund Head's gifted son? The
troubled waters of the St. Maurice and the quiet grave at Sillery recall
as in a vision, not only the generous open-hearted boy, who perished in
one and sleeps in the other, but they tell us also of the direct line of a
good old family cut off - a good name passing away, or if preserved at all,
preserved only on a tombstone." - Notman's British Americans.
[240] The late Bishop is the author of a collection of poems known as the
Songs of the Wilderness, many of the subjects therein having been
furnished in the course of his apostolic labours in the Red River
settlement.
[241] The following is the extract from the True Witness referred
to: "In the reign of George II, the see of York falling vacant, His
Majesty being at a loss for a fit person to appoint to the exalted
situation, asked the opinion of the Rev. Dr. Mountain, who had raised
himself by his remarkable facetious temper to the See of Durham. The Dr.
wittily replied. 'Hadst thou faith, thou wouldst say to this mountain (at
the same time laying his hand on his breast) be removed and cast into the
sea (see).' His Majesty laughed heartily, and forthwith conferred the
preferment on the facetious doctor."
[242] "En 1865, les Iroquois furieux d'avoir vu manquer l'effet de leurs
propositions faites aux Hurons, firent des incursions dans la colonie et
jusqu'au bas de Quebec. Au mois de mai, on plantait le ble d'Inde dans les
environs de Quebec; un frere Jesuite avait voulu engager les Algonquins a
faire la garde chacun leur tour et pour leur donner l'exemple, le bon
Frere avait voulu etre la premiere sentinelle. Il s'etait donc avance en
explorant dans les bois (c'etait dans le voisinage de la propriete
actuelle de M. le Juge Caron, sur le Chemin du Cap Rouge), tout a coup le
Frere recut deux coups de feu qui l'etendirent a terre grievement blesse,
et en meme temps deux Iroquois, sortant d'un taillis, l'assommerent et lui
enleverent la chevelure. (Cours d'histoire de l'abbe Ferland a
l'Universite Laval). Page 4, Journal de l'Instruction Publique, pour
Janvier, 1865."
[243] The Hon.
