appeared, and she was sure to have a hidden apple or a bit of candy for them. Her relatives sent her seeds and she taught the children to plant gardens. Of the five water springs on the property of the

the Jardin du Roi, plants, seeds, medicinal roots, and minerals in order to make known the natural products peculiar to Canada. On several occasions Gosselin supplied numerous specimens of plants for

Ready* in forming the Central Agricultural Society, one of whose goals was to obtain and distribute better seed grain and potatoes to all who were interested

previous year, he was made a commissioner to carry out a law for the relief of parishes in distress in Lower Canada, as well as commissioner for purchase of seed grain. In 1821 he was appointed to the board

, Spices, Perfumery, Garden and Flower Seeds.” Five years later Morton’s Medical Warehouse, a wholesale and retail drug business, was established on Granville Street; subsequently reported to have been the

the main public roads in the settlement and to study the question of a public ferry. In 1865 he was a member of a committee to distribute seed wheat purchased from the HBC

extinct as a people; we could raise no potatoes, corn, pork, or beef; nothing would grow by putting the seed on the smooth rock.” Only when the

suckers, raised trees from seed, and made root grafts; and he recorded the distribution of his stock in numbered rows and plots. Sharp cultivated many

losses from a cattle distemper. Captain Sutherland applied to the government of Nova Scotia for seed corn for their subsistence, and wheat and oats were purchased for them. As more Lunenburg inhabitants

commissioner in 1817, the first, on 29 March, “for purchasing seed grain to assist parishes hard hit by the poor harvest,” and the second, on 26 April, for opening roads in Quebec County. On 28

suggest. He is a good example of those peripheral figures who have quietly sown the seeds of our present learning and literature in Canada

and such other wooden products as step-ladders and “Wisner’s Standard Washing Machine and Champion Clothes Wringer.” Seed-drills were soon added, as were sulky-rakes, harrows, and cultivators. By 1874

of his production, which was varied and included a certain amount of seed grain, placed Evans clearly above the average farmer at that time. In addition, the farm had 22 head of cattle, which he

grew high-quality seed grain. The gesture fired Macdonald’s imagination: in 1900 he gave Robertson $10,000 for prizes. The resulting competitions would lead in 1904 to the formation of the Canadian Seed

farm machinery in Ontario County. His reapers, rakes, seed-drills, threshing machine, and gang-ploughs, along with his dutiful family, made his the highest-producing farms in the township. Agriculture

Bradford’s daughter Harriet, was disappointed by the settlers’ resistance to church discipline, but wrote of the glorious harvest he reaped from the good seed sown by his predecessor

Service* and Sowing seeds in Danny (1908) by Helen Letitia McClung [Mooney

directors and was by far the most active member during the first few months of the society’s existence. He arranged for seed grain to be sent from abroad and agreed to have certain experiments with wheat

Le Marchant*. Under its direction, production in the colony doubled over the next few years and, through the distribution of seed potatoes, the population was saved from the worst effects of

-Pointe-à la-Caille (Montmagny) in 1754 and 1757; in 1762 he became manager of the seigneury of Bellechasse. When the census was taken that year, he owned 43 head of livestock and a large quantity of seed