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TRiP"fl'O ‘IMOIFKFCOAST- SEE-B IIAhlY LOCAL ZPEOPDE. g; .,~ (Moncton Times)

lllir. Paul when. of '_Moncton, re- turned last week from a five mouths‘ trip to the Pacific Coast. He was accempan‘ ’ on the trip by his brother. Mr. Jslbes Lea, of Vie~ tofla, »P. E. L, the latter arriving home a couple of weeks ago. One object of his trip was to see a younger brother, Mr. Harry Lea, of Stockton. California, who rwas ill and died Fdb. 24th. in the 72nd year or his age. Though they visited dif- ferent points in California and Washington State, most of the time was spent in British Columbia and Mn Lea. in an lnterviewwlth The Times on Saturday expressed him- self greatly pleased with that part of the Dominion. its, climate and general outlook. He thinks Vancou- ver has wonderful shipping pros- pects and will fer outstrip all the ports on the Pacific coast. my. Lea,

naturally. was-greatly interested in . -

British Columbia"; f .’espeeially

the methods used in "cutting down '

the mammoth trees. HQ says many of the trees are eight feet in dia-

"Offliioncton. .

Radlshes are the standby of every vegetable garden. They will grow in almost any soil and with a minimum of care. but the proper soil and cultivation gives them the tender, snappy character which makes the radish a table delicacy.

There is not much choice in va- riety. While there are numerous names and each seedsman has some strain that he keeps bred up to a fine point of quality, there is slight difference among a lot of them. There are the small extra

long red and white types, the summer radlshes and the winter. radishes. _

In fact almost any of the early

The Piqunt Radishes

early round or oblong types, the -

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t been enhanced by white tips con- trasted with the scarlet akin, solid coloring, and mottled varieties. For the later crops, the long scar- lets and the ever popular icicle, an all~white radish, are the beat. 0! the former there are the same variations in coloriand size as ih the early type all scarlet or scarlet and white. A check of the lending catalogues will show somewhere around fifty~odd varieties, early globe. early olive, and early long kinds. There is no great choice. For summer radishes the White Stuttgart and White Vienna are standard types big radishes that mature without becoming pithy and bitter during the warm weather.

meter‘ at "the buttland the average '_-_.-',~.

would be four or flve feet. These trees grow- to a- great height. They are generally cut-off at 200' feet from the ihutt, being from 15 to 18 inches in diameter at that height. The method generally followed is for s. man to climb thetree and cut off the top with branches not worth turning into lumber. After the top has beendhposbd of the trunk is cut off at the utt and ‘notwithstand- ing the eno . 011s 8110‘ of thetrees they are h died with the greatest care all th work lbelng done by ma- chinery, the trees lbeing guyed with iheavy chains, landed where desired and conveyed over sulehee and rough ground to the point where they are to be loaded. Logging rall- waYB are carrlaiiflnto the forest where the operations are going on a/nd there arei/‘ltlollillies of these-log, ging roads} wrtlrlllo mileallnfltoiirsq of construction. Tim trees average 4.000 to 5,000; feet‘. of sewn dumber and one live acre lot inspected by Mr. bee cut i. million and a half. The mariitiolr iunalbsr is ‘now- very active on thecoast; heavy‘ ship- ments being made to Japan and other oriental countries. -

Mr. Lea spent most of his time on the coast at the home of his dallshter Mrs. Steeves, .wlfe of Dr.

sTAlflDARDgTYPElS OF RADXSHES

radis el, are good radishss. Their select on is merely a matter of taste and of selecting the earliest type and a succession to maintain a, ulullllllblli supply during the series‘. nestle. rs. radish. like the "lettuce; is‘ an early spring v93“. able. our most palatable at that time anthlflopriehes bee! during the cool spring-hays. it is one of the hardest vegetables-Rand can‘ be plsnted- as soon as: the ground can be. worked. ' I" r It will stand considerable frost and still flourish. The early radish- es have now been developed so that they produce a crop for the table in 20 days in the finest strains. The decorative fleature_has

Winter radishes grow to great size and may be stored in the cellar for win er radiehes. They are planted la er than the spring radishea as are the summer varie~ ties. .'l‘he . Black Spanishp the Japanese Bakurajima and the White ‘Chinese are typical and good varieties of’ this strain.

The main thin to get good early rldishesls goo soil and early planting. it is also better to plant more thinly than the old~fashioned gardeners were accustomed to do. The seeds given room to develop produce roots of sufficient size for the table much more quickly than when too crowded.

Steeves, who is head of the pr vinclsl asylum at New Westminster, about 12 miles from Vancouver. This is a very large institution with 1.700-.patisnts. Attached is a farm of 1.300 acres, with a herd of V200 registered Holteln cattle, sdd to be the best in America. The milk from this herd, one and a half tons daily. la all used by the‘ patients in "H? asylum. Dr. iteevel, it‘ may he noted. is also a. New Brunswleksr, ‘being a son of the late Mariner ' 5199"". of Hillsbcvro, Albert ‘County while his iwife is well known to mil-fly in Monoton as Miss an Lea, While in Vancouver Mr. i a niet ma!!!’ lllonotmiaha, noluding Mr. W. 0. Bell» a former ginoer here. "m" ""If9fl.8roml_ ‘business;- ~Will Willi-moons» noel-me, o. n. Jones. J. N. H _ . Wallace Park- " R- H- ‘ , Cruise, W. ‘i "W? steam-trod- w. Edsett llnqfi: . ‘niugfl i“ u" Qlililllezitusm . r. Harvey in the clowns higher; wand the Monctonllml [Overalls seem to be

Lea stopped at Calgary, where he was invited to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Donald 00w, Mrs. 00w being formerly Miss Georgie Boyd, ‘of Moncton. ln Winnipeg he met Mr. J, Mansdeu ‘Wallace. a former Mono ton merchant. who took up land in Manitoba some twenty years ago 0r more and engaged in farming hut is now retired and living in Win nlpeg.

While on'the coast the Messrs. Lea visited Sacramento and Seattle where Mr. Jabs! Lea has two sons and two daufliters. This was not Mr. iPaul Lee's ilmt visit to the coast, as he was out some 70M‘! dgo and lived in California over fifty years ‘ego. It was in Sacra» men» that-he learned the sash and dnolnbusinesl, which he wtabllshed it‘ the 0t of Westmoreland Street ‘iii |M_ m» and carried on so luc- oessmlly-nlltil a year or so as“ when ‘he sold out to Mr. 11M. Lock- hart. M; Lea retains as a memento

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report of the savings bailk in that

of his early visit to Sacramento a _

_ Leads us torsst so gently. that we

city. then a small institution in which he had an account in 1869- 70, This bank k now grown to a very large institution with millions of ca-pl-tal but on revisiting the city the management, being given the number '0! his account 221. was eibleto turn it up and verily the deposit. in the grape growing dis- trict in California he learned that the growers. who had been warned that prohibition would kill their business were getting 880 a ton as compared to 840 a ton before pro- hibition.

On their way home the Messrs. Lea stopped in Ontario and Mkm- treal, Mr. Paul Lea making a side trip to Boston where he visited his daughter, Margaret, who was the wife of the late Dr. Dodd of that city. |Mr P _l Lea is now 79 years ofage wlni his PjE. bland brother is 77 andhqthmre exceeding young looking men or their age.

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NATURE As a fond mother, when the day is

o'er. _ Leads by the hand her little child

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Nor wholly reassured and com-

forted

By promises of others in their

stead,

Which though more splendid may not please him more.

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