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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. 1 2 3 32X 1 2 3 4 5 6 s Spencer Grange, Its Grape Festival ■ ■ llJM I^WI^W****?— — *^* ESTABLISHED 1864 y, (iilhert Parker, and ever so n)any nion; liave sjicnt pleasant hours or days " i'ar from smoke of noisy town " amid that fairest of scenes witli tlie kindest of hosts." THE «PENCKR GRANGE MUSEUM. Tlic Museum lias been lun-inously described by the his- torian, Suite, in the Ant iqnarian Journul. " One of tlie greatest attractions for us," says M. Suite, " in visiting Spencer (irange, was its museum of Canadian birds, comi)rising two-thirds of tlie feathered tribe of the Dominion, with a fair sprinkling of foreign specimens, and a collection of bird's eggs. Each class of birds has its own corner, or judging by the label *a habita- tion and a name.' The thrushes and flycatchers are parti- cularly conspicuous from their bright tints and delicate arrow- shaped markings. The olive-grey cuekoo, a quaint and graceful minstrel in our green liedges in July, the oriole, blue jay, officer-bird, indigo-bird, and golden-winged wood-pecker, form a group of striking beauty. A succession of drawers contain the nests and eggs, scientifically labelled, of many Canadian species, as well as some of the songsters of France and PiUgland ; pre-eminent among such being those of the European nightingale. Of some of the more curious of the specimens we naturally took special notice, of such as the tiny nest of a West Indian humming-bird, made out of a piece of sponge, and tlie cubiculum of the red-headed wood-pecker scooped out of the decayed heart of a silver-birch tree, with the eggs within, and the head peering from the orifice in the bark." Among other oddities to be seen in this quaint spot, may be enumerated the legendary white robin of nursery rhymes, in actual fact — a specimen shot by Mr. Carl Sewell, at Des- chambault ; a white crow presented by W. Herring of Ravens- wood; specimens of grouse, jitarmigan, and capercailzie sent from Scotland by the Hon. Adam Ferguson Blair ; a Herring gull killed at Niagara Falls by W. McCallum ; a Florida ibis, shot at Giondines; a splendid Bird of Paradise, a present from Spencer Wood ; and a superb specimen of the great ov 1 of the Pyrenees, le Grand Due, by the French savant, Le Frexe 3 — \ Ogcrieii. A curious collcctiou of canes nttrnctrd our ntton- tioii, standing in the museum next to some rusty bayonets and venomous-looking claymores — taken from tlie adjoining battle-field, tlie Plains of Abraham. One well poli.shed walking-stick had been hewn out of the stout ribs of the old Oripnal, recently brought to tlie surface— a King's ship, wrecked whilst being launched, in llie Koyal Shipyard, under the French r(5gime— (at Diamond Harbor, Quebec,) in 1750. The pommel aptly represented a moose's antlered head, whilst the face of a Frencli sailor was carved on another dark oak stick, recovered from the wreck of a French frigate, sunk by Admiral Byron, at Battery Point, liaie des Chnleani, in 17G0 — both presentasions to our friend. General Isaac Brock's cane, is a curiously carved and worm-eaten bludgeon, presented to Mr. LeMoine when presi- dent of the Literary and Historical Society, by Messrs. Fisher y the (Mty Council of Quehec in 1871. Close to it, lies a rusty old cannon, from the wreck of Admiral Hovenden Walker's fleet at English Toint in 1711, presented hy N. Comeau. Its rusty appearance and corroded sides hctcken its age, and one's fancy may convey him hack to the olden struggles and the stern hattles of days that are gone. Here is also a row of Englisli sliot and a shell, all gathered up from Wolfe's camp at Montmorency, A honey-combed iron tablet, pre- senting a well-defined profile of Montcalm's successful oppo- nent, enshrouded amid flags and symbols of war, and encircled with the inscription : " In memor>' of Major-General James Wolfe, the ('onqueror of Quebec, 13th September, 1759," must be very old, as the workmanship is very crude. Here also is a broken basaltic column from the Giant's Causeway, pre- sented by Wm. Herring, Esq., of Ravenswood, Sillery. Among other curiosities may be noticeil the ponderous key of old St. Louis Gate, before it was razed in 1871 ; an Indian musket barrel picked up near the monument on the Ste. Foye road ; a petrified purse found on the shores of Crane Island; and specimens of western Indian warfare bound with the variegated gun case (.f the great chief Poundmaker, pre- sented by Fred Stimson , of Calgary. Such are some of the attractions to this quaint rendez' voiis, without mentioning the extensive collection of historical Plates, Engravings and other Canadiana." 1 v7 ANNUAL GRAPE FESTIVAL, SPENCER GRANGE, Saturday, 5th September, 1896. INVITED GUESTS. Sir J. Adolphe Chapleau, Lt.-Governor, Spencer Wood. Sir Louis Napoleon Cnsault, Chief Justice, Lond^sir. Honble. Mr. Justice Wurtele, Court of Appeals, Montreal. " B0886, " " Quebec. " Blanchet, " " " " Andrews, Superior Court, Coucy-le-Castel. " " Caron, " "• Quebec. " " Routhier, " " Evan John Price, Senatge, Quebec. Professor Wm. Cr )cket, Dr. Fred. Montiz imbert, Gen. Sup. of Quarantine, Grosse Isle. Wm. Cook, Q. C, Mount Pleasant. Col. Spence, U. S. Consul, Quebec. J. Caf '^ More, Manager Merchant's Bank. Frank Cockburn, Montreal Bank, Quebec. Herbert M. Price, Montmorency Cottage, Montmorency Falls. Dr. John Harper, Inspector of Superior Schools, Quebec. J. U. Gregory, Quebec. George L. Maxhara, Quebec. Denny Stuart, Quebec' The meet took place, as heretofore, in the* centre Vinery. Reaching from end to end, a table, improvised under the hanging clusters of Black Hamburgs, had been decked by Miss LeMoine, with lovely floral decorations, in which the blushing blossoms of scarlet Geraniums blended tastefully with the amber plumes of the Goldenrod. T'was a warm September afternoon ; a mellow sunshine gilded the emerald foliage of the maples yearning to don their rich autumnal tints ; the Dominion flag, presented by the proprietors of neighboring country seats, gayly streamed to the breeze from the flag- staff crowning the Grange ; every thing tended to adorn and enliven the fete champetre. After partaking sumptuously of the luscious Black Hamburg, Royal Muscadine, Sweet-water and Frontignan grapes — sufficiently in fact for each guest to be in a position to render an intelligent verdict on the ambrosial fruit, the health of His Honor Lt.-Governor Chapleau was proposed and cordially drank — the toast being coupled with a pleasant allusion to the distinguished and well merited imperial honours recently conferred upon him by Our Gracious Sovereign ; to which Sir Adolphe replied in his usual happy and forcible style. At 6 P.M., with the shadows of old Sol lengthening beyond the western hills, " the feast was over in Branksome tower," closing with a health heartily drank to the Laird of Spencer Grange. in )n le id It rs .0 ^^'^ >y le th er of tie ^S g- id h\jtji •M' f:^ c'.Tj. -r-/