Ward, Anna L. (1887) 'The Garden of British North America’ from Frank Leslie Popular Month/y: pp. 183— 
     
     90. [PEI PARO 4175/1 — n.b. pp.189-90 were missing in the archival copy.) 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Apart from the little that can be gleaned from the article itself, there is little known about Anna L. Ward. She was 
     
     obviously a travel writer writing for an American monthly magazine. She apparently visited the island in the autumn 
     
     (October is mentioned) and travelled by railway over the whole of it from Tignish to Souris, She is writing for a 
     
     tourist readership, and thus tends to emphasize the scenic and the quaint. Her few comments on the forest give 
     
     a picture of its contribution to the island landscape in the late nineteenth century: forest remnants are present 
     
     especially on the hills, while the effects of clearance and logging are still evident - in the form of scattered remnant 
     
     trees in some areas and the after-effects of the burning associated with clearance in others. Although she says 
     
     shipbuilding is still going on, it is evident (from her point of View) that the forest is of greater value as an element 
     
     in the scenery. In this respect the contribution it makes is not always positive, especially in the ravages left by fire 
     
     and clearance. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Passing into the harbor [of Charlottetown], St. Peter’s Island on the left and 
     
     Governor’s Island on the right, the traveler will see white-housed villages amid green 
     
     fields, and stately forests on rivers' banks and on cove and bay [p. 184] 
     
    
   
   
    
     The surface is undulating; deep, beautiful valleys are separated by high, wooded hills; 
     
    

    
     Abundant evergreen casts dark shadows athwart the narrow wagon-tracks; while 
     
    

    
     Clearance burning an occasional stretch of "timber, cut and lying about the ground — great, unburned 
     
    

    
     5“” ’0 be 599’7- ’corpses' of the trees" — betray the ravages of the fire-fiends who have done their 
     
     best to obliterate the original forests. 
     
    

    
     Almost an endless variety of hedges inclose private grounds, and mark the 
     
    

    
     limits of the farms on the edges of the forests. Tree-roots are frequently utilized to 
     
    

    
     inclose the land from which they have been uprooted. There are low, zigzag walls of 
     
    
   
   
    
     Root fences. 
     
    
   
   
    
     pegs a/ong fie/d sodded stones tipped with a closely cropped growth of stunted spruce, and the dike— 
     
     boundaries. like inclosures, from which grow verdure-crowns of hemlock, hawthorn and spruce 
     
     hedgerows. [pp. 184-5] 
     
    
   
   
    
     The chief industry of the island is agriculture, though fishing and shipbuilding are 
     
    
   
   
    
     carried on to a large extent. [p. 185] 
     
     Hurry is unknown, even on the railway, in Prince Edward Island. Over the two 
     
     Remnant trees hundred and ten miles between Tignish and Souris, with branches to Cape Travers, 
     
     amid new Charlottetown and Georgetown, their way lies around curves that follow the outlines 
     
     growth. of the hills—hills whose tops and sides, dotted with old and naked trees that stand 
     
     like soldiers on guard amid the fresh young growth—or through burnt districts where, 
     
     Burnt dl'St/I'Cts- leafless and limbless, blackly charred trunks mingle with thrifty forest trees. [p. 186] 
     
    
   
   
    
     Years ago ship-building was extensively carried on at this town [Summers/dc], it being 
     
     the chief centre of the trade, but to—day it is an industry of the past. [p. 186] 
     
    
   
   
    
     From the cupola of [the Colonial Building] an extensive view of Charlottetown may be 
     
     obtained, with the blue hills of Nova Scotia rising beyond the waters of the Strait. 
     
     It was from this point that we looked upon the green grassy meadows, the 
     
     golden ripened wheat, and the bright-tinted leaves of forest trees . [p. 187] 
     
    
   
   
    
     Trees {’7 Victoria Park is one of the chief beauties of Charlottetown. Within this park natural 
     
     Victoria Park' lakelets spread their surface to the light, and picture the clumps of spruce and groves 
     
     of birch-trees that grow upon their banks and form a shade to the carriageways that 
     
    
   
   
    
     wind to the shore. in 187] 
     
     The view from every visitor at the metropolis goes to T Hill, from there to get a glimpse of the 
     
     Tea Hi/l. scenery outlying the city. They find a landscape without mountains or hills of any 
     
     considerable elevation, but rolling lands, finely clothed with miniature forests, clearly 
     
     defined hedgerows, and bright rivers—a panorama of nature’s painting. [p. 187] 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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