393 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



4 GEORGE V., A. 1914 



Grapes. — Saunders' Seedling-, Delaware, Brighton and Worden. These were all 

 vigorous growers and ripened their fruit. 



Many of the above-mentioned varieties of fruit are selected sorts, got from Brit- 

 ish and European nurseries for the Experimental Earm at Agassiz, B.C., and proved 

 as being tested there, to he of sufficient merit to justify the test in the Salmon Arm 

 district. 



New varieties of merit will be added as opportunity offers. The annual rainfall 

 in this district is light, but, as there is seldom any frost in the ground during the 

 winter, the melting snows sink into the soil, and this carries the growth well on into 

 June, when, as a rule, there is a fair amount of precipitation in the form of gentle 

 rains. There is, thus, quite sufficient moisture to enable the crops to mature, and a 

 failure has not been recorded for over twenty years. On the uplands there are sel- 

 dom late spring or early autumn frosts, tomatoes, garden corn, muskmelons and 

 watermelons ripening well. 



