THE 



Canadian Horticnlturist 



Vol. XIX. 



1896. 



No. II. 



MR. GEORGE CLINE'S PLUM ORCHARD. 



^ NE of the largest plum orchards in the Niagara District belongs to 

 Mr. George Cline, and is situated about midway between Grimsby 

 and Winona. The conditions here at the foot of " The Mountain " 

 are much the same as those at Clarksburg, where our Plum Experi- 

 ment Station is situated, so that varieties that succeed at the one 

 place may be almost counted upon as sure to succeed at the other. 

 It is the same mountain that winds up from Hamilton to the 

 Manitoulin Islands, passing near to Collingwood, and dividing up near Clarks- 

 burg to form the Beaver Valley. When driving through this section with Prof. 

 Hutt, we were struck with the general appearance of the orchards which so 

 resembled our own at Grimsby. 



We visited Mr. Cline on the 14th of August, and found his force of 

 pickers busily engaged harvesting the Bradshaw ; we took a snap shot of 

 them at work as shown in the engraving on the next page. Mr. Cline's 

 trees are breaking down under their immense loads of fine fruit. He had 

 nearly all varieties in his orchard, but of course, confines his attention to only a 

 few for market purposes. Already he had harvested about 4,000 baskets — 

 chiefly Bradshaw and Washington, and expected that his crop of all varieties 

 would amount to about 12,000 baskets. This is not an extraordinary crop 

 when we consider that Mr. Cline has about 5,000 plum trees, mostly in bearing. 



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