FRUIT GROWING IN ALGOMA. 



Continued from September No. 



N the interior of the St. Joseph's 

 Island we found a good many 

 small orchards, of fifty trees or so 

 each, which had been planted in 

 response to the persistency of some tree 

 agent, whose pioneer work in many 

 cases cannot be too highly valued, be- 

 cause he has thereby succeeded in in- 

 troducing fruit-growing into many parts 

 where otherwise, to this very day, it 



latter has ceased to bear because of the 

 apple scale which is very severe on both 

 fruit and foliage. 



The great drawback to the fruit in- 

 terests of the island, is the ignorance 

 concerning suitable varieties. Already 

 thousands of dollars have been wasted on 

 Baldwins, Greenings, Kings, and other 

 tender varieties, which only lived a year 

 or two, and then succumbed to the 



Fig. 1437. — Sault Ste Marie. 



would be thought a foolish under- 

 taking. 



On the farm of Mr. A. Clifford, on 

 the A Hne, about 4^ miles south of 

 Richard's Landing, we found a tree of 

 Shipper's Pride plum four or five years 

 planted, which had borne heavily one 

 season ; a Lombard, two years planted 

 showing a little fruit ; an Abundance 

 which had passed one winter in safety ; 

 a Weaver in bearing ; a Moore's Arctic 

 plum bearing abundantly, and a Mon- 

 treal Peach apple well loaded ; also 

 Whitney and Transcendant Crabs. 

 The former does well, but of late the 



winter's cold, that often dips to 40° 

 below zero, or more. Large numbers 

 of Deacon Jones apple trees have been 

 sold during the past season at 75 cents 

 each, being recommended as the great 

 ■ apple for the North ! Many were the 

 inquiries concerning this wonderful 

 variety, and all seemed much surprised to 

 hear that we had never even heard of it. 

 Another apple just now being adver- 

 tised here is the Arctic, which is being 

 introduced by a Massachusetts firm as 

 an iron clad variety. We do not know 

 anything about this either, unless it is 

 some old variety under a new name. 



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