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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



October, 191 i 



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K. I. Greenings are arriving in good size 

 and well matured for so early a date. Th< 

 market is well supplied at present witli 

 fruits. The banana trade is still increas- 

 ing. Seventeen cars landed here a short 

 time ago in one day. 



British Colun\bia 



The British Columbia Department of Ag- 

 riculture is making arrangements to send 

 a thoroughly representative collection of po- 

 tatoes from the various farming districts of 

 the province to the American Land and Ir- 

 rigation Exposition at Madison Square Gar- 

 dens, New York, from November 3 to 12 

 next, where the exhibit will be entered in 

 competition for the Stillwell trophy and 

 $1,UU0 prize. An official of the department 

 will accompany this exhibit. 



Peach growing does not seem likely to 

 prove as successful in this province as wafc 

 anticipated a few years ago. l-'rosts on the 

 low lands have forced many growers to 

 abandon peach growing and to go in for 

 the production of more hardy fruits in- 

 stead. Speaking on this jHjint recently 

 Mr. Thos. Cunningham, the Provincial 

 Fruit Inspector, said: "There has been a 

 noticeable falling off in the number of 

 peach trees imported into the province, 

 not nearly as many came in this year as 

 last year, and in my opinion it is a good 

 thing, as we shall do better to confine our- 

 selves to cherries. There has been a great 

 increase in the number of apple trees im- 

 ported." 



The Provincial Department of Agricul- 

 ture this year operated five power sprayers 

 which were used to instruct growers in 

 their use. 



Some interest was aroused at Vernon, 

 B.C., by a consignment of strawberries 

 from the ranch of Andrew Sutherland, near 

 One MUe Point, which were ottered for 

 sale about the middle of September. The 

 variety was the well known English berry 

 Givonne, which was introduced in the Koo- 

 tenay a few years ago. It has proved a 

 successful late variety. The berries were 

 thorouglily ripe, of good size and excellent 

 in color and flavor. 



Notes from Niagara District 



Lians WoaWertan 



The ill effects of the hail storm referred 

 to on page 227 in the September number 

 of The Canadian Horticulturist are just 

 being measured up. In apples I find about 

 one-half the crop hail pecked so badly as to 

 be classed either as culls or as No. 3; while 

 the other half is classed as No. 2. The 

 fruit as it hangs is a sorry sight, so much 

 of it was cut through by the hail so badly 

 that rot has set in to finish its destruction. 

 This is also very disheartening when one 

 considers what beautiful clean fruit it all 

 was the day before that hail storm. I am 

 told that a grower near Grimsby was offered 

 $1,500 for his apple crop on a Saturday 

 and refused it. The hail came the next day 

 and so changed the prospect that he could 

 not sell for $300. 



Peaches and pears, especially the later 

 ones, do not show as much loss as apples; 

 but the early varieties were mostly de- 

 stroyed. 



The grape crop has suffered more than 

 any other fruit. I had the pickers go over 

 and pull off the bad berries from a part of 

 the rows, but found it a very slow job ; the 

 rest I left till picking time, and really it is 

 quicker done, for the berries fall off more 

 easily, being dried up. But at best the 

 bunches are left very straggling, for nearly 

 half of every bunch was destroyed. Some 

 ten years ago we had a similar visitation 

 of hail. One begins to wonder whether the 



