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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



February, igii 



NOTES FROM THE PROVINCES 



Prince Edward Island Fruit 

 Growers' Meeting 



J. A. Moore, Hazel-wood, I'. E. I. 

 The annual meoting of the Prince Ed- 

 ward Island Fruit Growers' Association 

 was in every way a success. The attend- 

 ance was better than usual, and although 

 this has been a poor year for apple grow- 

 ing, a splendid display was on the tables. 

 The packing in barrels and boxes was 

 splpadidly done. The fruit compared very 

 favorably with that shewn from Ontario 

 and British Columbia. One thing though, 

 is evident — we cannot grow Ben Davis 



with either of these provinces. 



Wo are just now in an un.settlcd state of 

 mind . The Spy, Baldwin, and King are 

 tabooed. There is a feeling aj/ainst Ben 

 Davis, and our minds are not fully made 

 up as to which varieties to put in their 

 place. Stark, Baxter, Pewaukee, and 

 Wagner each have their champions, but 

 ])ersonally I believe there will soon be a 

 Letter apple than any of these. I do not 

 think we grow enough Yellow Belle Flenr 

 here. The excellent lime-sulphur solution 

 and its efficacy in preventing scab and the 

 rpust-be-adopted system cf thinning on the 

 treo would make this variety a splendid 



BAXTER 



The Ring of Late 

 Fall and Early 

 Winter Apples 



ane. 



Cut sjiows the Pyramid of BAXTER 

 Apples that advertised CANADA at 

 the National Apple Show at Spok- 



50 Apples that weighed 64 pounds. 

 They were grown in British Colum- 

 bia. 



BAXTER is a variety of compara- 

 tively early maturity. It bears well. 

 The Fruit is handsomer than King, 

 and outsells it. 



The tree is much hardier, and is a 

 splendid grower. 



WE OFFER splendid grown 

 trees for Spring Delivery. 



WRITE FOR PRICES 

 Agents Wanted 



Stone & Wellington 



The Fonthill Nurseries 



Toronto, - Ontario 







winter apple for us. The fine flavor would 

 create a market for it. Our apple par 

 excellence, the one most suited for our pro- 

 vince, is the Wealthy. I remember some 

 years ago hearing one new high in autho-. 

 rity, say when the Wealthv was being 

 praLsed that "it would be all right if we 1 

 wanted to produce vinegar." It was ro-i 

 frtjehing to hear him .say this year that 

 "we want nothing better than the Weal- 

 thy, and if I had planted tliom when T 

 .started I would be worth far more t' 

 I am now." This man's trees seven y 

 out produced this year a barrel per t 

 and were worth three dollars fifty cents 

 barrel, one hundred and thirty treee to an 

 acre. Is not this pretty good? But it has 

 been done. And while few can hope to 

 have the success of this splendid fruit- 

 grower, yet I think hundreds might try 

 the venture, for be it known that as yet 

 we do net begin to grow apples enough to 

 attract buyers to our land. No surer way, 

 no quicker way, and no more profitable 

 way could be devised to douhlo our popula- 

 tion in the next fifteen years than for each 

 of our farmers to plant and protect five 

 acres of fruit trees. 



British Columbia 



Mr. Thomas Cunningham, provincial fruit 

 inspector, is distributing 5,000 circulars 

 printed on calico, so that they will not 

 wash off with the rain These are to be 

 posted in conspicuous places in all districts 

 where fruit is grown so that the province 

 should be fairly covered. The posters state 

 that in order to prevent the spread of in- 

 sect pe.sts and diseases injurious to fruit 

 trees and frnit, it is found to be imper- 

 atively necessary to prune and thoroughly 

 spray all orchards. 



If the owners or persons in possession 

 of infected and diseased fruit trees neglect 

 to apply the neces.sary measures for cleans- 

 ing them the orchard will be quarantined 

 or the trees must be destroyed at the ex- 

 pense of the owners as provided by the 

 British Columbia Horticultural Act and 

 amendments thereto. All burnings, debris 

 and other rubbish must be burned up at 

 the time of pruning. 



The Dominion government iias greatly 

 enlarged its fumigation plant in Vancou- 

 ver. The immense increase in the quan- 

 tity of stock passing through the station 

 each season made this enlargement neces- 

 sary in order that the work of inspection 

 and fumigation might be dene expedi- 

 tiously. 



Preparations are advancing rapidly fo.r 

 the location of the demonstration crchard* 

 provided for by the appropriation of 

 $10,000 included in the provincial esti- 

 mates last session. It is intended that 

 these orchards shall afford practical ob- 

 ject lessons in the management of orchards. 

 Two of the orchards will be located on 

 Vancouver Island, four on the lower main- 

 land, one probably in the Delta, one in 

 Chilliwack, and two in the Dewdney ridge. 



The second orchards district will com- 

 prise Shuswap, Armstrong, Nicola, Sal- 

 mon Arm and Penneys (Wallachin), two 

 orchards going to the constituency of Yale 

 and two to that of Kamloops. Either three 

 or four orchards are proposed for the third 

 official district, which is to include Ver- 

 non, Kelowna, Summerland, Pentictcn and 

 Keremeos. The fourth district is Kcote- 

 nay and the Boundary county. East and 

 N. E. Kootenay. It is expected that two 

 orchards will be awarded to the Slocan 

 district, one being given on Arrow and 

 one on Slocan Lake, with one on thq Koote- 

 nay Lake in the vicinity of Nelson, one at 

 or near Cranbrook. one at Windermere, 

 one at Rossla&d and another at Midwar. 



