Oct. 1827.
Douglas’s harvest of plants and seeds established a record for species introduced by an individual into Britain, the leading country
seeds of the province there and the flight to Belgium would lead to the founding of large establishments in that country.
In 1914 Lajoie’s
Ameau informs us that he felled the trees of an island, inherited from his father, which he wanted to seed in order to support his mother and his young sisters. At the same time he prevented
Jamaica spirits, salt, oil, staves, peas, and grains. It received in April 1817 a contract worth £4,450 to supply government commissioners with seed grain for distribution to farmers who had suffered a
with numerous vegetable, spice, and flower seeds sent to him by his agent there, Jacques Terroux.
By the mid 1790s McCord had become a citizen of
collection of the impressive selection of plants and seeds that Douglas carried back to England. Another botanist, the German Karl Andreas Geyer, passed the winter of 1843–44 in McDonald’s company at Fort
supplies, seed for planting, and medicines to some 50 persons. She also suspended legal action against those who had pillaged the converts’ dwellings, and went to Napierville to intercede on behalf of
seed dealers in central and western Ontario. Although he frequently returned to Kingston, he also began to travel west each year to familiarize himself with the rapidly expanding prairie-grain trade that
and increased assembly grants, to provide good seed, implements, and advice. Late in 1877 Robinson retired to England. Knighted at Windsor Castle on 12 December, he went to live with his daughters
* and to Shore’s being tried by court martial on a variety of charges, including those of making false reports to his commanding officer and of disseminating and nurturing the seeds of insubordination and
1789 he appeared to be at the peak of his reputation and influence within the company.
The seeds of the strife and bitterness which marred the later
entered a short-story contest for Collier’s, a leading American family magazine. Although not a winner, her composition became the initial chapter of her best-selling novel Sowing seeds in
disrupts the plan that I had of sending you plants and seeds native to the region from which I was expecting to receive them.” Sarrazin went on to enumerate the dangers of botanizing in New France at that
, William Fisher Luxton, refused to support Bannatyne, since he was “one of those who sowed the seeds of rebellion.” The affair is difficult to explain since Bannatyne was aware that Taché was committed to
experimental farm or station in the neighborhood of the capital. . . . Tests, &c., will be made here of all the different seeds, and experiments made as to the raising of cattle, tree planting and
to be several grades lower than the standard contracted for, and some of it was tainted with weed seeds. It was not clear whether Denny had been careless in his certification or whether he had been in
to the rural man of the soil, who aligns his furrows carefully on the cleared fields to receive the seed which will make the land fruitful
entire life in Toronto. His childhood family home was on the southwest corner of Yonge and Elm streets, where his father, a Scottish immigrant and successful seed merchant, had established in 1837 a
for sowing the initial seed of much subsequent legislation and nurturing its growth, and for opposing initiatives and concepts he did not agree with. One of the measures he disliked was the Jury Bill of