The settler came, not with axe and fire to ravage and deform, but as builder, planter and gardener.

Being in nineteen cases out of twenty a Briton, or a child of one, he set to work to fill this void land with everything British which he could transport or transplant His gardens were filled with the flowers, the vegetables, the fruit trees of the old land.

The oak, the elm, the willow, the poplar, the spruce, the ash grew in his plantations.

His cattle were Shorthorns, Herefords, and Devons.

His farm horses were of the best Clydesdale and Suffolk Punch blood.