Starr's Point
Nova Scotia, Canada

Take a ramble in the country to Prescott House Museum at Starr's Point, near Wolfville. Here, horticulturalist Charles Ramage Prescott cultivated Nova Scotia's apple industry from 1811 to 1859. One hundred and fifty years ago, Charles Ramage Prescott introduced to Nova Scotia some of the apple varieties that we still eat today: the Ribston, Northern Spy, Baldwin, and Gravenstein.

The house he built facing the Cornwallis River is one of the best surviving examples of Georgian architecture in Nova Scotia. Elegant and symmetrical, "Acacia Grove" once had a hothouse that produced some of the finest plants in the country.

Many years after Prescott's death the house fell into disrepair. His great-granddaughter, Mary Allison Prescott, decided to restore it to a level of elegance comfortable for her and her sisters and suitable to her own taste and time. She surrounded it with wonderful gardens and filled it with antiques, some of which were original furnishings.

See items such as a fine 1811 silver tankard that belonged to Charles Ramage Prescott. The Davenport dessert service, hand-painted with botanical illustrations, is a fitting set for the house where the prominent horticulturalist once lived. And Miss Prescott's collections of oriental carpets and hand-stitched samplers are some of the finest in Canada.

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