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are making more and more use of this Station to obtain information in regard to 

 fruits, vegetables and ornamental plants. The latter have been very attractive. 



Salmon Arm, B.C.— On August 17, I paid a visit to Mr. Thos. A. Sharpe, Salmon 

 Arm, B.C., who reports on the varieties of fruits growing in his orchard and the 

 neighbouring district, and who sends a weekly report to the Horticultural Division on 

 horticulture in the Salmon Arm district. 



MEETINGS, ADDRESSES AND PLACES VISITED BY THE STAFF OF THE HORTICULTURAL DIVISION. 



A good deal of the time of some members of the stafi of the Horticultural Divi- 

 sion is taken up each year in attending meetings, in giving addresses, and in becom- 

 ing better acquainted with horticultural conditions in different parts of Canada, and 

 occasionally, in other countries. 



When visiting the Kentville Station in 1915, I visited parts of the Annapolis 

 Valley with the Superintendent, and when West visited the Windermere, Summer- 

 land, Vernon, and Salmon Arm districts of British Columbia. From the western 

 Experimental Farms and Stations I went to California to attend the meetings of the 

 American Pomological Society and the Society for Horticultural Science held at 

 Berkeley and to visit, with the members of the former society, the diiferent fruit dis- 

 tricts of California and the Panama Pacific and San Diego exhibitions. I joined the 

 party at San Diego and after seeing the exhibition there, the important fruit centres 

 of Los Angeles, Pasadena, San Dimas, Pomona, Whittier, Fresno and other places 

 were visited. Wiliile I was impressed with the great resources of California from a 

 horticultural standpoint I feel convinced that, notwithstanding the variety of fruits 

 which can be successfully grown there, Canada offers as good or better prospects of 

 success to a fruit grower than does California. The returns to Californians on some 

 crops in 1915 were very low. The famous plant breeder ]\Ir. Luther Burbank was 

 visited at his home and trial grounds, Santa Eosa, California, and he very courteously 

 showed us over his place and explained the work he was doing. 



The Panama Pacific exhibition was visited and the Canadian exhibit found to 

 be one of the most attractive, educational and striking features of it. It received 

 the highest praise from the visiting horticulturists. The exhibit of apples, most of 

 which had been kept in cold storage since the previous year, was particularly fine, 

 and the fruit in preservatives in bottles was in excellent condition, its natural appear- 

 ance being a tribute to the skill with which the fruit and preservatives are handled. 



On September 11, on my return from the United States, I gave an address in 

 Victoria, B.C., on " Vacant Lot Gardens and Vegetable Seed Production." I attended 

 the meeting of the Ontario Horticultural Association on November 10 and 11, and 

 read a paper on " California in Summer from a Horticultural Standpoint " and also 

 presented a descriptive list of " Twenty-five Best Psconies ". I also attended a meet- 

 ing of the Ontario Vegetable Growers' Association at Toronto the same week. The 

 annual meeting of the Quebec Pomological Society was attended on December 9 and 

 10, when I read a paper on " Horticultural Work at the Dominion Experimental Sta- 

 tions in the Province of Quebec." At the annual meeting of the Ontario Agricultural 

 and Experimental Union held at the O.A.C., Guelph, Ont., on January 10 to 12, 1916, 

 an address on " Important Factors in Connection with Ontario Fruit Growing " 

 was given, and at the annual ineeting of the Ontario Fruit Growers' Association lield 

 in Toronto on January 18 to 20, one on '' Results of Work in Producing New Fruits 

 at Ottawa ". On January 25, I gave an illustrated lecture on the " Use of Orna- 

 mental Trees and Shrubs " before the Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club, Ottawa. The 

 meetings of the Niagara Peninsula Fruit Growers' Association were attended at 

 Grimsby and St. Catharines on February 23 to 25, when addresses were given on 

 "Pruning Practices", "Apples, Best Varieties for Profit", "Small Fruits, Varieties 

 and Conditions for Growth." A convention of New Brunswick Potato Growers was 



Ottawa. 



