New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-28
T. ", PERKINS PAID FOR 1T
yTrCCESSFUI EXPEDITION TO FIND MA
RINE PLANTS FOR NETWORK
BOTANICAL GARDEN.
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The results of recent explorations of Nova
Scotia and Newfoundland, ordered by DR.. N. l..
Britton director of the New-York Botanical
Earden, at the expense of George w. Perkins,
Of NcW-Yorll are being worked out at Inc
Gronx Park Museum, Already it is known that
The expedition secured twelve thousand spec-
mems of over two thousand species of plants,
Of which one-third alone are marine plants,
some of gigantic size. The expedition was III
charge of DR.. Marshall A. Howe, assistant cura-
Tor of the garden He was assisted by William
/. Lang museum aid, and Clifton u. Howe
fellow in botany of the University Of Chicago.
The expedition followed the sea closely in order
to secure marine plants. The two aids. however
covered the inland territory as far as possible.
The party went first TO Yarmouth, thence by
rail along the Bay of Fundy, stopping at Digby,
Kingsport Grand Pre-, Windsor Junction and
Pictou, the extreme north Of Nova Scotia Inc
European rockwell. Fucus serratus. was found
extending from Pictou to a point eighty miles
east and through the Straits of Canso- North
Sydney, Cape Breton Island. was the next point
visited thence by steamer to Port-auX-Basques'
th.. southwestern extremity of Newfoundland.
The last stretch yielded the larger KEEPS. and
thu. Bay of Fundy the largest single specimens.
Newfoundland is not all treeless, as the public
has been led to believe by historians who have
merely sailed along the eastern and southern
shores or landed at Port aux Rasques. At this
port and at Channel, the sole posto1iice of the
region there are no trees, but plenty of curious
dwarf, semi-prostrate frs, spruces and alders
are found on some hillsides. Newfoundland is
generally covered with granite and coarse rocks
The soil is scanty, but very rich The plants
most prominent are sedges, Ercacesn the north
ern limits OF familiar heaths. southern limits Of
sub-arctic types and familiar Towering types.
The party crossed the entire breadth of New
foundIand of three hundred miles 10y means of
the 54S miles of track of the Newfoundland
Railway. The road starts from Port-aux-
Basques and rams near the shore northward
for IA miles to the Bay Of Islands. turns east
across the unsettled Interior thence to the ir-
regular northern coast, winding yarously to St.
Johns.
Among the mountains of the western shore
are forests of sZable timber. such spruce.
fir tamarack yellow and white birch. There
are also occasional white pines and black ash.
The interior entirely corrects the impression
that Newfoundland is tree!ess, the numerous
lakes are surrounded by forests notwithstand-
ing the foundations by railway fires At Hum
Der River and Deer Lake are striking displays
of the tall fireweed tEpilobium). Many delicious
berries were found in use in Newfoundland
wholly unknown to the United States and which
should be introduced to the New-York markets.
The bake apple. or bake apple berry, has an ex-
cellent flavor in pie sauce. The mountain
cranberry, or partridge berry, is superior to our
cranberry, and is gathered in large quantities.
The squash berry is palatable when cooked.
The creeping cranberry, or snowberry is the