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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



Manitoba 



Brandon. — ^^Standard apples are not grown to 

 any extent in this province. The more tender 

 varieties of abs were badly injured by last 

 winter's frost, and the hardy kinds are not bear- 

 ing- quite as well as usual. Native varieties 

 of plums under cultivation are well loaded with 

 fruit. These are the most suitaible for the 

 northwest, as they are about the only ones that 

 ripen sufficiently early. Small fruits of all 

 kinds are about an average crop ; wild fruit is 

 quite scarce. — (v.. A. Bedford, Supt. Experimen- 

 tal Farm for Manitoba. 



British Columbia 



Taken altogether the fruit crop cjf British 

 Columbia is very good and well above the 

 average. In some districts a few varieties are 

 scarce, but taking the exceptionally dry season 

 into consideration, on the whole, the outlook is 

 extremely promising. In the Okanagan Valley 

 and the district round the Lower Frazer, the 

 chief fruit growing section of British Columbia, 

 the crops of apples, pears and plums are very 

 good, whle prunes are a In. Lie scarce. In the 

 Boundary country the apple and peax crop is 

 very good, also plums and prunes. At the 

 i^oast the crop of apples, pears and plums are 

 all very good, with prunes about a quarter crop. 

 In the interior, w^here fruit is just past the ex- 

 perimental stage and the orchards are beginning 

 to give some return, the crops are again very 



good, all round apples and pears being especial- 

 ly fine. The district around Nelson along the 

 shore of the Kootenay river is rapidly forging 

 ahead as a fruit growing district. Taking the 

 province all through the fruit crops in general 

 compare very favorably with last season, more 

 fruit being grown this year, as more trees are 

 coming into bearing. — (H. J. Marks, Nelson, 

 B. C. 



Fruit Division Report for August 



The fruit division of the Dominion depart- 

 ment of agriculture recently issued the follow- 

 ing report concerning fruit crop conditions : 

 Prospects have not changed materially since 

 the last report. In southern Ontario the fruit 

 will at least equal the crop of last year in 

 quantity and surpass it in quality. In the 

 Georgian Bay and Lake Ontario district every- 

 thing points to a medium crop, cleaner than 

 usual. Nova Scotia is developing considerable 

 fungus. Prince Edward Island reports no ap- 

 preciable change. 



Pears of all sorts are a light crop. Plums 

 are a total failure in more than half the or- 

 chards and only a light crop anywhere. The 

 prospects for peaches have not improved. 

 Fifty per cent, of the correspondents report a 

 total failure. Black rot has injured the grape 

 crop materially in the larger vineyards, but the 

 crop will still be fair. 



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