August, igi2 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



201 



aare, is at least doing something. Two 

 'states which are breeding fruits on a large 

 scale are South Dakota and Minnesota. 

 iFrom South Dakota a number of new fruits 

 ^ave already been sent out, and the Min- 

 uesota State Breeding Station, though or- 

 ganized but a few years ago, has originated 

 some good things already. The New lork 

 Experiment Station is beginning to distri- 

 bute new fruits and have already sent out 

 some new apples, raspberries and straw- 

 berries. 



The standard varieties we have to-day 

 are almost all of them chance seedlings from 

 the thousands of seedlings which have 

 sprung in America and Europe during the 

 past hundred years or more, and it is 

 scarcely to be expected that anything as 

 good will be obtained from the limited num- 

 ber grown by comparatively few institu- 

 tions and individuals for the especial pur- 

 pcse of obtaining new varieties. 



British Columbia 



An order for 250,000 fruit boxes has just 

 been placed by the farmers' exchange, of 

 Kelowna, British Columbia. This is the 

 largest order for fruit boxes that has ever 

 been given in this district. Four years 

 ago 20,000 fruit boxes were sufficient to 

 handle the Kelowna fruit crop. 



Pear blight has been discovered in some 

 orchards in the Sumraerland district. 



As the orchards in the affected district 

 use irrigation it has been suggested that 

 excessive irrigation late in the fall and a 

 consequent excess growth of wood may have 

 had something to do with the present out- 

 break. The provincial government officials 

 have been advising the growers in regard to 

 the best methods of treatment, and have 

 been giving public demonstrations. 



For some time there has been a consider- 

 able agitation for the erection of a pre- 

 cooling plant at Summerland, it being 

 realized that fruit could be shipped in a 

 riper condition and carry further if cooled 

 before shipment. Mr. Edward Smith has 

 been appointed temporarily by the De- 

 partment of Agriculture at Victoria to 

 make investigations and experiments in the 

 i,re-cooling and storage of fruit and its 

 transportation. 



Arrangements are being made by the 

 apple growers of the Kootenay district and 

 by the agents who handle the products of 

 the orchards to market the fruit on a con- 

 siderable scale this year in the cities and 

 towns of the prairie provinces. The assist- 

 ance of the railway companies is expected. 



Twelve fig trees of six varieties have been 

 imported from England by W. J. Shep- 

 pard for experimental purposes in Nelson 

 and district. Mr. Sheppard states that fig 

 trees grow out of doors in the open and 

 fruit ripens without any protection in Eng- 

 land as far north as the Midland counties, 

 and he believes that they should succeed in 

 this section. j v tt n 



Nut culture is being attempted by H. H. 

 Cleugh, near Nelson. He has planted Eng- 

 lish filbert, cob nuts, English walnuts, 

 American black walnut, hickory, pecan and 

 .American sweet chestnuts and the trees 

 and bushes are growing rapidly. Already 

 walnut trees, the seed of which was planted 

 in 1910, are three feet high, while hickory 

 has reached a height of eighteen inches. 



The Canadian Hortioulturibt is admir- 

 able and instructive. It possesses the art 

 of convincing itfi readers in regard to the 

 methods they should adopt to grow fruit 

 profitably.— Auguste Dupuis, Government 

 Fruit Station, Village des Aulnaies, Que. 



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