Aug-ust, 191 1 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



199 



sprayed over four thousand trees in this 

 neighborhood. They are renting orchards, 

 and they have made a big improvement in 

 orchard work. 



Altogether we expect to open your eyes 

 at the Horticultural Exhibition in Toronto 

 next November, especially as we justly claim 

 to have the best home of the Spy, and no 

 better place than the Beaver Valley for the 

 other good kinds. — G, W., Clarksburg, Ont. 



lJV\PORT YOUR BULBS send with me; I import every year and get only the 



highest quality of spring flowering bulbs. Write for 



C. MORTIMER BEZZO particulars and prices. 



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Lambton County Openings 



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One of the anomalies of the history of 

 agriculture in Ontario is the circumstance 

 that the development of many of its in- 

 dustries is the result of accident rather 

 than intelligent design. A section of 

 country, which happens to have as pioneers 

 men of more than ordinary intelligence, or 

 that by some other accident has had plant- 

 ed crops peculiarly fitted to its climatic 

 soil and market conditions, will be found to 

 develop rapidly, whereas another section, 

 equally well adapted, will lie waste. 



This peculiarity is well exemplified in this 

 county of Lambton. The region around 

 Arkona was the first in the county to be- 

 come well known as a fruit producing dis- 

 trict. A study of the cause of this condi- 

 tion shows that some years ago a number 

 of people of the Niagara District emigrat- 

 ed and settled around Arkona, bringing 

 with them the ideas of fruit growing in- 

 culcated by their experience in their former 

 homes. 



Around Sarnia an extensive vegetable 

 trade is growing up, and again you will 

 find that the nucleus of the growers was 

 drawn from the vegetable gardening class 

 around Hamilton. Forest, on the other 

 hand, has become well known as an apple 

 producing district, mainly due to the 

 superior intelligence of the old Scotch pion- 

 eers, of whom Mr. James Johnson was the 

 most far-seeing. The great development 

 there is largely due to the care and fore- 

 sight exercised by this splendid old settler, 

 who planted and cared for the orchards that 

 are now so well known as those of Johnson 

 Bros. 



PEACH GROWING 



The first attempt to grow peaches in a 

 commercial way was in the region of Ar- 

 kona, and partly due to lack of knowledge 

 of conditions and of the more advanced 

 methods of cultivation, and it may be partly 

 due to climatic conditions, the attempt was 

 only fairly successful. In the region around 

 Forest in the early days, peaches succeeded 

 perfectly, but were never grown commer- 

 cially. Later the "Leaf Curl" completely 

 wiped out the peach(«, and because no one 

 was sufficiently interested in them, the 

 disease was not studied, and until within 

 the last few years no attempt at control 

 was made. Thus it will be seen that de- 

 velopment in the past has been largely 

 accidental. 



To-day, however, a new situation is not- 

 iceable. The subject is being taken up in a 

 more intelligent manner. A study is being 

 made of climatic, soil and market conditions 

 and the particular classes of fruit best 

 suited to the individual sections are largely 

 being planted. The result is that very great 

 t-.id rapid development is taking place, ow- 

 ing to the confidence with which the in- 

 vestor can look to the future. A man who, 

 having investigated the climatic conditions, 

 .studied the soil, and examined the outlook 

 for market, finds all of these favorable 

 when intelligent selection is made, moves 

 forward to the development of his particu- 

 lar property with a confidence that is un- 

 known to the haphazard investor and 

 planter. This condition is the answer to the 



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