OUR SPECIAL CROP REPORTS. 



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Most trees, however, are sound and looking 

 well. Grapes offer well. The crop is excep- 

 tionally heavy, standard hardy branches being 

 a^bove the average. Upon the whole, the grape 

 outlook is good. — (A. "W. Peart. 



Essex County 



Leamington. — This is certainly an off year 

 for fruit in ii;ssex county. The acreage of small 

 fruits grown is much less than it was a few 

 years ago, caused chiefly by difficulty in getting 

 the fruit picked. Plums are very light, not 

 enough to supply local demand; the same may 

 be said of grapes. Peach trees that survived 

 the severe winter were considerably injured and 

 dropped most of their fruit, so there are very 



few more peaches than will be wanted for local 

 use. Pears are a light crop. Early apples- 

 good and of fine quality; winter apples a light 

 crop and poor quality. — J. L. Hillborn. 



Grenville County 



Maitland. — The apple crop will not be more- 

 than 50 per cent, of last year. The fruit is 

 fairly clean and growing fairly well, and gives 

 promise of a large percentage of No. 1 fruit.. 

 Injury was sustained in some orchards by hail 

 in July, but -./ careful selection they will not 

 injure tne sample. The main crop is Fameuse- 

 in this county, only a small percentage of late 

 winter apples being grown. The yield will be 

 light. — (Harold Jones. 



Fruit Prospects in the Different Provinces 



Nova Scotia 



The apple crop of Nova Scotia for export is 

 estimated at upwards of 500,000 barrels ,as 

 agafnst something over that amount exported 

 last season. The crop in general, however, is 

 considered inferior to that of last year. Gen- 

 erally speaking, the apple crop is an average 

 one, but there will net be as many No. 1 (for 

 shipment as last season. Baldwins, Kings, 

 Ribstone and Blenheim are quite generally re- 

 ported as a full crop. The plum crop will be 



slightly over ^ of an average crop. Pears 



rather small, 50 per cent, of an average yield. 

 — (W. S. Blair, Nappan, N. S. 



Kentville. — ^The crop of apples in the King 

 and Annapolis valley will not be as large as 

 estimated in June, and our export will proba- 

 bly be between 4,000 and 5,000 barrels instead 

 of 6,000, as last year. It will be an excellent 

 Baldwin and Blenheim year. Spy and Non- 

 pareil will be a goocl crop; Nonpareil fairly 

 heavy and somewhat spotted. Gravenstein in 

 the heaviest fruiting districts of Kings county 

 are very spotted, except where thoroughly 

 sprayed. There is more unquestionable evi- 

 dence this year of the benefits from spraying 

 than. ever before, and those who made up their 

 minds last year to dispense with spray pumps 

 will bring them into use next season. The 

 plum crop will be about 40 per cent, of last 

 year; peach crop almost nothisg, trees suffer- 

 ing from severe winter; pear crop 40 to 50 per 

 cent of last year. — (Ralph S. Eaton. 



Rossway. — !The apple crop is rather light 

 here. In looking over the orchards I find la 

 great many trees with very little fruit. A few 

 trees seem to be fairly well filled. There 

 seems to be a lighter crop than last year, and 

 apples seem to be rather small in size. As to 

 plums, there are very few trees in this vicinity, 

 and few plums on the few trees. There are 

 not more than half a dozen bearing pear trees 

 within a dozen miles. — (A. C. Sabean. 



New Brunswick 



Bellisle Cre«k. — There are no large orchards 

 in this province, but quite a large number of 



small ones. The prospect for the apple crop 

 is good. The Duchess, Fameuse, Peach, New 

 Brunswick, Yellow j.ransparent and King are 

 very heavily loaded ; the Red Astrachan and 

 some others are not bearing any. The apple 

 crop will be a great deal larger than it was last 

 year ; plums also. Very few i>ear trees here. 

 — (Benj. Crawford. 



Fredericton. — iThe apple crop is better than 

 last year. Many fall and winter varieties are 

 very promising. rfate winter apples not much 

 grown, but what there are look well. Plums 

 make no show here this season ; pears not 

 much grown. Our orchard promises fully dou- 

 ble the crop of last season. — (J. C. Gilman. 



Anagance. — The Duchess and Yellow Trans- 

 parent apples are a full crop; the Alexander, 

 Ben Davis, Mcintosh Red, Tolman Sweet, Prin- 

 cess Louise and Suton's Beauty are a fair crop; 

 the Baldwin and Russets are a failure, and all 

 the other kinds are very light. Plums will not 

 be more than quarter ojf a crop ; no pears worth 

 mentioning in N. B. — (Lester Stocton. 



Quebec 



West Lambert. — The fruit crop in this pro- 

 vince will ibe much below the average, due, no 

 doubt, to the damage causeu by the extreme 

 cold weather last winter. Apple trees are 

 nearly all more or less damaged. Many plum 

 trees were killed outright. Small fruits seem 

 to be about an average crop. — (J. Byrne. 



Henrysburg. — ^The apple crop is a very fine 

 one and free from fungus or spot. There is not 

 going to be such a large crop as people looked 

 for in the forepart of the season. Fameuse 

 crop is looking fine and going to be a medium 

 one. Winter apples are a light crop. Pears 

 not grown to any extent. Plums fine and a full 

 crop. Apple crop much heavier than last year. 

 There will be 12,000 or 15,000 barrels shipped! 

 from this part of the province this {fall. Apple 

 barrels are so dear there will be thousands of 

 barrels of apples not shipped to market. Bar- 

 rels are costing us $40 to $43 per hundred. — 

 (John Spencer. 



