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Asia and European Countries Combed for Nuts to Grown on the Banks of the Mimico Creek '

Near Toronto.

(By Oeorse n. Oureen in the amen Advocate)

1;‘ new... 1m and rare my hubby that dear old mglsnd is protected

'10s birds, and I made a bird sanc- __tulry 0f my place, known as "Echo flfllcy." which lids lust two miles jllvri-lfwbst 0i Toronto on each bank e! the lliznico Creek.

> hnmedistely after the war I made

up my nind to turn my twenty acres-

intc a nut arboretum end pineturn. -'I‘he plnery idea has lagged some- what. but the planting of nut trees ‘and shrubs went on to the full. As my valley runs east and west it is a

‘regular hot-pocket o! eir, and trees

‘or all kinds make rapid growth in etlu rich clay oi the hillsides and

lblack soil oi the flats. This roush land could not be poughed as the

Jpring floods would carry all the tcp

,..|ol down to Lake Ontario where it would be wasted. and thus this land

“was only good for pasture and tree growth.

As a boy 1 snioyed gathering1

'nuis along the Nagern. ridge or ~ emannrent. As a man 1 could not help liking the sturdy hickory which ~bends under the heavy sleet and ice storms, but never breaks. And the big, massive black walnuts I feel "another kind o! love for,—cne that ‘the very irngranoe oi their leaves al- 'wsy (ire/vs out of my eoul. As a child the grnding up oi all kinds oi nuts gave me such strong jaws -that I could easily imitate those circus men and women who grasped -the rubber handles o! the flying rings and trepeae-like swung down Jrom the root oi the big tentfhang- ing on by teeth only. Nowadays Jhildren fal lament-ably to exer- scisa their teeth, and the result is that decay rapidly sets in, as strong {teeth are never made by brushing ._and chemicals but by exercise, just as our spine and muscles are made bstronvg.

This Chr stmu (11733) p(l‘l0d, l 4nade a special visit. in the markets ‘of Toronto, both wholesale and re-

tail, and I found the poor -. assort- Jnent o! nuts 1 have ever known; in fact so much so that es isr as var- iety is concerned I can from my own supply, gathered in the hi! c! i963, make a very much better dia- ay,-riet o: quantity but oi var- ety (and even quality) for my trees _are all young and many have just Qatarted to beer.

In the following paragraph I am _ne.ming the nuts and indicating Qwhat may be found in Echo Valley. ‘in Machete following are the results jai my investigation in Iloronto

stores. . v Sweet chestnuts, ‘I var eties (I "variation; black walnuts, '7 variet- "ies (none); hickorios. ll. varieties ‘moon: pine nuts, none (none): _' almonds, one (8 varieties); Japan- "eee walnuts, 2 varieties (none) z Jap- ‘aneaa heartnuts, b varieties (none); ‘fhaglish walnuts (Juglans regin.) "I varieties (l9 varieties"); butternuts '2 varieties (none): Manchurian ‘butternut! I varetles (none); Eur- cpuri filberts. is varieties (one); Asnerican saelnuts, 3 varieties (none); beechnuts, 2 varieties (none): brazl nuts, none (one); Macademia nuts, none (none); Li- ehu nuts, none (none); Pistachio nuts, none (one); Olnko nuts. one (one); paradise nuts, none (none pecana, none, (6 varieties.) .

Oi pecans I have five healthy trees that shed their leaves natur- ally in mid-October, and while they are not yet old enough to bear nuts, they should do so .n the very near future. Then I have three or four varieties oi hicans (s cross between the hickory and the pecan) which ere so rare that it would not be inir to compare the city supply

‘with my own, ior as a matier oi , not they have have: heard oi them. ‘r do leel ashamed cf myseii that 1 have no pine nuts. 1 would have had them but for an unforseen dis- aster of s fire which destroyed the

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Ind it in the winter sun‘ which kils trees. Thus 1 went to Asia where a the weather is bilterly cold and the sun shines most oi the winter. l l, also went w northwest Germany. to - Poland, Latvia and the Carpathian Mountains; as well as to ‘rurkey. Greece. itaiy (north mountoi tion). Bill-in and northeast e. England can growbroadlea! ev r- greens and others that are too tend- er to grow north of Lake Ontario. J have no trees to gell, rather l am still a buyer. As my nuts num- .ber from a dozen or so on the younger trees to a. couple oi buahe s on the larger, I have no nuts to sell as I require thern for exh bition y purposes. Anyone lnteresetd is wel- come to pay me a visit. and l will gladly show the one hundred and one varieties 1 have growing.

In Judging a nut we consider first the crack ng sale. One woud not consider a black walnut as oi any value ii on being hit it broke

i into many pieces. S0 in order to | get a prise and a name e black wal-

nut must come out in half. or even whole. Next we consider flavor and then s ze. Arid oi no small value is: productivity. And thus a nut tree) may receive 4o points for cracking! ease, 25 tor size, and l0 for produc- tivity.

It is said that there are tricks in all trades. and this imludes nut- growing. Thus, if your land is low and somewhat damp and you wish to specialize in growing English walnuts (Juglans regis) you will learn that they W11 not grow in soil that is the least, bit damp, while, black walnuts (Juglens nigne) wi1l' grow to mriection in rich, damp: bottom-lands. 8o I merely graft my, Ehiglish weLnuts to black-walnut shock. In fact. when I buy thcm I always specify that they must be armed to black-walnut stock.

Arid the same with European

nlberts. These I never permt to grow in coppice iorxn but make them grow up as a little tree and out the suckers oi! as they crop up around the main stem. As iiberts are grown iron: layering I do not have to bother graiting them. ‘Ib ensure good fertilization 1 always plant a hali dioaen varieties or more together, and tbs ensures a large full n30 every year. Filbert: are the qui at of ell nuts to bee-r. and when ordering them I always spec-l ify to put in several European. seelings. Curious to say, our Amer- ican hazelnut cannot fertilize the European iilbert, but the European filbert can iertliae our American hazelnut. and I have a splendid sample of this nut. I also have a Ohincee tree hazel- nut that eventually grows d0 feet taller than the tallest aims in the world. I expect to have a crop o! nuts from this tree next tell.

TIME COSTS HONEY OVER PAH! PHONE

PARIS, Dec. b—(O.P.)—'l‘he fa- miliar proposition that time is money seems to be well illustrated in the case 0i the “talking clock" of Paris which tells the time over the telephone whenever it is rung up. The clad has been in cpcr- ation ior a year, and duing that period 4,000,000 znquiries have been addressed to it and the calls so res-

have brought in a revenue» oi $15.00!).

With the clockb customers it seems to be a case of "strictly bus- iness." The mechanical voice hes

rising and breakfast period of the morning, when apparently endless people ring up in order to find out whether they are going to be late for wc k or not. On Sundays and holidays the talking clock has far tower nquiriee to answer; when arnanbtimeiahiaownheceases

known to tmmle tbe telephone.

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"GLOOIKAPWIII'

An article in The Guardhn re- ce:tly told oi some of the doings o! the mythical hero or demigod 91006189. who was the Gtigiliai "WPQTYYIIH" oi the American nor- thern aboigires. Incidentally it tild us that Gooskapweek wag m. heme gven to a district (in m; Gl-bpe peninsula, if memory serves)

and that this meart “the home oi ‘This was too much for he curiosi-

' G1 roskap."

,wu inter-rating to the writer be.

pause it iormcd a ‘ink in the long lshrnec found tire ceiling o!

chain o! pl"ce-n'me| beginning in

oott: Y1 lEMNcru-ay rd endng at the mouth media.

NJrth-west ternary. Every sclnrlboy Phrase Of file old Norwsflan vikin s; ldwtlld I in the vika or gee‘; the name is said to mean. . likely that

the as

mmmll-fly to both t"e creek and. 1119 <1‘? 1111! Wh‘ch ‘ ned its shores, si"ce it re-avears in Anya-Saxon .Errglsnd as wick or ‘rich, meaning l_ tOWn. It is w.1l to notice at t is point that the initial “w" was? not e‘w ys siunded, ard so we (m4 Greenwich pronounced Grenidge! ,and Elswick (near Newcastle) as‘

to Icelrd who e the capital 1s Rzlkjavik, the smoky (cr steamy)

town from the reek oi the nesr~

by hot rrirgs. It was only a

short voyage for our vilr‘ngs_ to the

shor": o! G eenhrd_ who" UpQr-l nav k marks the ncrverrrmost set- _ tlemrnt c! that inhospitable re-

gen.

Still w-st"ard, as was the fash-

ion oi all mgrsticns. and the ad-

venturers, ages before Columbus,

ttuched the fringes oi a new con-

tinent. Their settlements may be traced in Lrbrador, ending 1;; "m"

end “ak", showng the inevitable

charge oi lamuage. Ir: Baffin Is-

land is Nekulik Luke. On the nor-l them s ores of in» Yukon region‘ is Aklavik, and h re the chain ends.

P ssibly a rod map oi these desc-

laie regions waz. trvs other ox-

amplra oi the pl-ce-nsmc. Olooa-

kapvik, 1h n, would mean the

"home-town" of our hero. end con-

Xlect hm w th the Norseman who

first came to cur shorer.

Since wrung ire above I note that in the entrarce to Hccln Brait is an lsl rd bear-‘ng the eig- niiicant name of Iglooiik.

BIRD NOTES

A while ago I was asked by e correspondent at Hunter River, Whether the Mnuriing Dove was m be round in the Island. From the records it would stem that a single specimen had been taken in i905, but no paniculug were given, This iniormation ie supplemented by a‘ l~ttrr just received from e friend who is greatly inererted in bird- liie. Ra lays: “I saw by your notes lest fell t“nt there was only one lid urrng Dove knovm to have vlsitrd the Isiand. About three yrars ago a specimen was picked up on the r: ilway track near Lake Verde, app rently havfng been kil- led by stfklng the telephone or telegraph wire. This specimen was forwarded to some competent authority in o e o! the other Pro- vnccs aid that was what they sold it was.

"Bids are rather scarce here this year. Oi course chickadeea are here. rye ere q ite lifenfiiul. but the woodprckers which have always b'en abundant here, appear to have m'g"s‘.ed to other paces. We have had a Norrks n Shrike here since lrie iall. He is Vt]? fond oi being around where the c: ieed is kept, plckirg up rraps oi meat, but the se ds oi app es and the berries on the asfyrr gus are both wclcornxed. a ew

Inets, and a fair share oi Hungar- ‘ian p rtrige about complete the illst; although Arctic ow'.s are lhere in fair numbers, none have ‘been ssen in the immediate vicin-

"I have got e book "Birds 0f the New England States." not loll IN. rd I must try and have you see it. It is certainly the belt beck I have lean. I thi k e‘l oi our birda are in it. as wel as e iew more. There are several hund ed pahtinbg: and ell

it ‘s only about l2. 0, defivered, as

lorg aa the auppl lasts." . ndent

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Psi-ck assay. five miles 'kszpaores ‘race was nous." here too. and an avenue from it to the main road. w e little "odge' (a cottage) at

the embstzled gateway tothe drive, lived the ienior and his family.

homing cvcr thawell into the

"H! garden o! the lodge, the Squire a:

bundrzds oi mo els oi

3°. “m: y; I “OJ m m $3,.“ acquainted with the members

Nzw, this designation ' ty, so he aligned, walked into the and to his iurilvar aston- tbe “l” covered wth drawings, and “el ov:r the place." made. o! the Ma kenxie river, in the , out oi brick day. The sculptor was k the lttlelmiiellovzha ,

nows (as the meze sc oo'.oy, was inv to e‘ 4 _ _ __ goes) about the heroic deeds H111 to look over the treasures of-"'-"“""d ""11 f‘ W1‘ ha" “*5” mixes] A IP10 and Oanova "AMP.

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the Bquue . r no saw the oer-

rt is tin signs cf ‘r1111! in tbs youth. "vik" was applied 1mm. I“.'i you go on cs you are doing, 1

will take ch rge oi your-‘iuturo, and when you rre cld enough will send you to Rome to study there."

The Nor humrrie-is, hereditary foes, the Scots, are a tlirlfty people, rd when the fu- ture genius liit school, his father apprenficed him to a stone-mason at Slrortlry Field, about three miles

Anothrr stage brings uncouth oi Minsterrres. Not much, 1'

iency. is kpwn oi his work at this period of his life. but I have seen a specimen oi his l-andicrait, eith- or in Bhcrrey He'd churchyard or in that at Muggleswiok. which I ex- amined with fleet interest. It was a tomb-stone, of white marble, Just an ordinary slab; but carved on the upper part. in high zelei, were two halt-recumbent iigurus o! angels. (h l.r heads (most touching. They were beeut fully proportioned, end with su:-p.isi*g etcuracy oi detail: evcn the little toe-nails, I noticed with some lent amusement, were exquiitely carvzd.

For some unkrewn reason, to the giet chrgrn oi tire 800d Squire. young Lough world not I0 to Rome, but elect d (like another Northumbriau, Shield, the Cfi-Qbfll- ed mus clan) to go to London, where he was ccnvbcad. fortune awaited him. I-Icw ha got there I cannot say but it would probaby be by a long “hike" tor thcre WQN no trains in those days.

In Inzdon he suiiered the time! privetlors o! urkown genius; but fortune was soon to take a stranfl turn. In his poor lodgirga, e garret under the roof. he mrdsiltod 0n I w rk which was to b irg him fame. He tkought oi Milo, the Cretan athete. who at the Olympic games carried an c: for a furong without resting and who. in his old . attempt d to rive an oak. But rivzn cak sprang text?" m5 caught his hands. so that he could not Iree himstlf, and he perished miserably from the attack o! wolves. Lough ch01: the la tor 1h- cident tor his work. Md New I fgsntic model cf the athlete de- picird as the iii-st wolf norms l9 his throat. The mcdtl rrse steadily till it t uchr-d the cell m-snd the head was still to iinahl But genius would not be denied: Lough demol- ia‘"ed the ceilrg and iinished his statue!

News oi this hgh-l-anded action econ reached icughu landlord, a wealthy man,‘ who naturally resent- ed such a trzatmezt of his proper: ty. 8s called on 11011811. saw the da» mags. but not being able to con- cur Nor-bumbrian oi the enormity oi hie or me, aid in the matter. He coreul his iriend Lord .a. high lega lu- minary, who list: ed with interest.

turning 0.1 his

way to the ru nous gerrzt, commis-

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and determined to v-lit this stroll!’ alumnae;- in pcrscn. This VII the glut in laugh‘: fortunes

rdsriifa recommendation all the glita of lnndou found its

stone flowed in, and the future 0! was assured. this statue 0i Milo: it is inodzilro in the common yllow brick 6H1. Vlul 111111 17°11 which Med pport, and is whtened with same sort oi wnlgaah. Thereuiae

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Now i have told you that by pm- allows

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cur give rests the flith bow

‘so sweet bluzbird our tam 3y as to mit ue move the r20! h’! house I she would sit ihle within dilht

cf cur eyetrows. with her beeuiiul head turned sidewiae looking us lQllI-fl in the fies, and thsn permit us t: put the cover backomandabe wouldnotilyotit. l have exp aired how the robin:

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there wal n itwr shrubbery nor innit to rttLa-l thlm thlli, Ind how the purple mart-ins ieidad their (vines a d came (heavens, rvsrh"ng their soup as they deacnded, the very tirlt day we had heir home erectrd. But t eae truths are ample compared with the facts contained in this chapter.

Some one has slid “the

[the nrny d znonstfatiam ct how a man's mouth can go 0!! empty. Ibr the iaotl 8N that has a gust amount of , a:d many q alLicaticng that o human race could well aiiord to p: ilt by; and elttougb I was born u'der the protecion of t‘e Ameri- can eege‘s wings, and mpcct him in every W y. nevr shooting one in mylife (hoIhI acendonato dmt l) y t (hen y:u spssk o! our Canada g'o e. t is bird il one of the most Intelligent, vii-sacrificing creators on earth, and as Ior puri- ‘iy oi ChJlPCMP he has ' gotten the human race backed right ofi the boul:v ;d into ‘be fume, and no z-son on 'a 1h ca‘ rudy him (wbthut pr iting by it- Personally. there has been many e time dur- i"g tl-e ‘est ten ycara o! my life when I hrve felt like raising my hat in the cI-a-i, gentlunanly prin- ciples exposed by one o! these old ganlrrs.

Now the quaeven ll. how did 1 become so well acquainted with

em

W1‘, eb-ut thirty years age a iew wild gese (n we call them) were alight ng on a art of prairie then kcrn

'I‘h y came newly every day. They are old Iunkera; I relieve the old

an eight in ‘i

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mile oi his nod l at leisure. ‘III LUNA! CYCLI

2i beck called ‘The Weather mdicetor. mpubiinsea about the middle or century '

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dug a combine ca-ity about cu ' inches dsep and covered myaei! with a blanket wh'ch was. oiceurae

the ex ct (olor o!

Three or are o! (he Eenhet were

staked and ted fret,

oover this muddy coifln. Then I

g-thered weeds rad the mud. oher is Tow twk the

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lncd thiesrevatokaepuiaoutci Attheieintset fsneidaybie

a1‘ the rest c! 6W1!!! and drove i'ul'y hall a min away. _ lust before cur-re m! c!!! Mull!-

tbe south. lo I a'am'ned the old gun, which was loaded with swan my back in this

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