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more bountiful crops. Cucumbers, salads, cabbages, cauliflowers, asparagus, and indeed all culinary vege- tables common in England, arrive at perfection. Cherries, plums, damsons, black, red, and White cur- rants, ripen perfectly, and are large and delicious. Gooseberries do not always succeed, but probably from improper management.

The apples raised are inferior in quality, but cer- tainly from want of attention, as many of the trees planted by the French, previous to the conquest of the island in 1758, are still bearing fruit ; and some fine samples of apples are produced by those farmers who have taken pains in rearing the trees.

Indian corn, or maize, is occasionally planted, but it does not by any means thrive so well as in New Brunswick or Nova Scotia, nor do I consider it so congenial to the soil.

Flax is raised, of excellent quality, and manufac- tured by the farmers’ wives into linen for domestic use. This article might be cultivated extensively for exportation.

Hemp will grow, but not to the same perfection as in Upper Canada, or some parts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

The principal grasses are timothy, red and White clover, and a kind of soft indigenous upland grass, of which sheep are very fond ; also marsh grasses, on which young and dry cattle are fed during the winter months.

As a few cold days and wet weather frequently occur in the latter end of April, or the first week