XVI 



IRISH GARDENING 



Canadian Notes. 



The district of Summerland, in the Okanagan 

 Valley, continues to hold the pride of place for 

 apple growing in British Columbia. At the 

 Valley Apple Show held in Vernon at the end 

 01 October, Summerland captured twenty prizes 

 with twenty-two entries, eighteen of which were 

 lirsl prizes. The Okanagan district leads as the 

 most developed I'ruit growing region of the 

 province, and is largely settled by English 

 colonists of the educated class, man) of them 

 being retired Anglo-Indian civilians and officers 

 of the services from the United Kingdom. 



The Progress of Agriculture i\ Nova 

 Scotia -During the past year greal progress 

 lia< been made in agriculture. \n experimental 

 fruit farm has been established at Kentville, 

 a beautiful rural town in the heart of the meat 

 fruit growing district. Professor J. W. Crowe, 

 of Ouelph, has been appointed as director. 

 The fruit growers of Nova Scotia expect good 

 results from the experiments made on this 



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