Mr. Griffiths

E. Mallandaine, Guide to the Province of British Columbia for 1877-78: compiled from the latest and most authentic sources of information, T. Hibben and Co. Publishers, Victoria, 1877, p. 27.

In Mr. Griffiths' garden there was a large plot of common winter cabbage, the solid heads of most of which measured from three to four feet in circumference. Red cabbage and cauliflowers were equally large and sound. Carrots and parsnips were large, as well as onions; and there was abundance of tomatoes, and several varieties of gooseberries, which did not seem to thrive so well at Comox.... The crops of all the varieties of currants and raspberries in quantity and quality vied with those of Comox.... Mr. Griffiths' orchard occupies about two acres.... I saw different varieties of apple, pear, peach, plum and cherry trees, and the proprietor informed me that all kinds bore fruit last year. The apples are excellent in quality.... Mr. Griffiths has about 300 barn-door fowls which are fed on grain of the farm and enable him to supply a great abundance of eggs to the Victoria and Nanaimo markets, where they sell from 25 to 40 cents a dozen.