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been expended to create specialized markets for our growers, and 

 our scope of markets is less than yours. Facilities for canning 

 and storing will also have to be developed in conjunction with the 

 industry of truck farming to place it upon a sound and perma- 

 nent basis. 



Landscape gardening and floriculture are receiving attention 

 and support throughout our Canadian West. Our towns and 

 cities have borrowed that spirit of civic beautification that has 

 permeated your towns and cities, and an honest effort is being 

 made to make them more attractive horticulturally. The develop- 

 ment of splendid civic parks and boulevards has been one of the 

 most valuable lines of work undertaken. The movement has then 

 spread to the homes, and we find a growing interest in the subject 

 of backyard gardening. With this growing interest comes a 

 demand for more information regarding horticultural matters. 

 Everyone wants to know about varieties, systems of culture, and 

 the information gained by our pioneers from long years of ex- 

 perience becomes invaluable. 



The interest in home beautification is also being carried to 

 our farms with the result that gradually our farm homes are 

 being made more attractive. The need for work of this kind is 

 just as great in the country as it is in the towns and cities. 



On the purely scientific side of horticulture we have not 

 made the progress you have in Minnesota. Your excellent fruit- 

 breeding farm at Excelsior will undoubtedly be the means of 

 developing and encouraging the production of hardy fruits well 

 suited to your local conditions. We in Manitoba have gained 

 much valuable information regarding varieties, but as yet have 

 done comparatively little in the production of new varieties. Dr. 

 Saunder's work in the crossing of apples has done something to 

 stimulate the production of this hardy fruit. The crossing of 

 hardy types and the selection of valuable native stocks will un- 

 doubtedly be the means of encouraging the production of fruit 

 throughout Manitoba and the Canadian West. 



From a Gardening Standpoint. — I think the selection of more 

 valuable seed stocks in our garden vegetables will also do much 

 to encourage the production of a valuable line of horticultural 

 crops. 



The work of the entomologist and plant pathologist has be- 

 come invaluable to the horticulturist in the production of his 

 crop. We are finding every year that insects and fungous disease 

 are becoming more troublesome, not only to our field crops, but 



