42 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



February, 1 91 3 



Quebec Fruit Growers' Annual Convention 



THF; annual meeting of the Pomologi- 

 cal and Fruit Growing Society of the 

 Province of Quebec was held at Mac- 

 donald College, Que. 



Apples of all sorts, sizes, shapes, and 

 flavors decorated the platform, and a long 

 line of tables at the front of the assembly 

 room of the college. Among these was a 

 plate of freak apples brought by Mr. Peter 

 Reid, Cateauguay Basin, Que. They were 

 Red Mcintosh apples secured from a craft 

 on a Ben Davis tree. The iresult was that 

 the fruit took on the shape and appearance 

 of a Ben Davis apple but maintained the 

 taste aind quality of a Mcintosh. 



-About fifteen plates of seedlings that 

 promise a great deal for the future of the 

 apple growing industry in Quebec were 

 shown by Mr. VV. T. Macoun, of the Cen- 

 tral Experimental Farm, Ottawa. These 

 were mostly from Northern Spies, which 

 so far have not grown very well im Quebec, 

 but these new seedlirigs, which are really 

 hybrids with another variety, have so far 

 proved themselves much hardier than the 

 ordinary Northern Spy. 



Of the varieties of apples shown, the 

 most prominent were the Alexander, Fam- 

 euse. Wealthy, Mcintosh, Wolf River, 

 American Golden Russet, Scott's Winter, 

 Baxter, Pewaukee, Canada Baldwin, Can- 

 ada Red (Pomme de Fer), Northern Spy, 

 Blue Pearmaiin, Bethel and about thirty 

 other varieties. 



The president, Mr. C. P. Newman, 

 Lachine Locks, reviewed the results of the 

 discussion at the Dominion convention of" 

 fruit growers at Ottawa, saying that he 

 hoped the Government would look into the 

 Cooperative Credit Association system in 



Europe as it had been asked to do by re- 

 solution. 



He spoke of the work of the demonstra- 

 tion orchards in Quebec as object lessons 

 to the districts where they are situated. 

 To show the necessity of stimulating fruit 

 production in Quebec he said that less 

 than half the fruit consumed in the pro- 

 vince was produced within its borders, al- 

 though there was a good home and export 

 demand for Quebec varieties. Nova Scotia, 

 Ontario, and British Columbia were all 

 showing greater activity in this direction. 

 "Fruit growing was too much of a side 

 line in Quebec." 



EXHIBITION PROPOSED 



Dr. F. C. Harrison, principal of Mac- 

 donald College, advocated the holding of a 

 fruit and flower exhibition in Montreal. 



He introduced Piraf. T. G. Buntimg, a 

 former assistant of Mr. W. T. Macoun at 

 the Central Experimental Farm, who had 

 taken Prof. Blair's place ; Prof. F. M. 

 Clement, lecturtr in horticulture, and Mr. 

 W. M. Aikenhead, assistant in the same 

 department, all of whom, he said, had 

 made good records for themselves in their 

 former spheres of work. 



Rev. Father Leopold of the Trappist 

 Monastery, who was received with ap- 

 plause, spoke on "Establishing Canneries 

 and Their Advantages in Connection with 

 Cooperative Societies." He made the text 

 of a la/rge part of his address the work 

 done by the recently formed Cooperative 

 Society of Kamouraska which he saw while 

 on a visit to Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere to 

 establish a demonstration orchard. 



He told of the cannery at Ste. Anne de 

 la Pocatiere undertaken by the Cooperative 



Society after it had sold «ight thousand 

 gallons otf the plums in a fresh state, and 

 found that this was the only method of 

 saving the rest of the crop which were a 

 glut on the market. Very quickly, with 

 the help of Father Athanase, of La Trappc, 

 they organized a canning plant in the 

 old college and preserved in a few days 

 ten thousand pounds of plums, making 

 something like six thousand gallons of 

 preserves. The fruit was put in tin cans 

 processed mostly by hot water, the pro- 

 cessing vat having a capacity of five hun- 

 dred gallon cans at a time. The very best 

 grade possible was put up. The preserv- 

 ing was done with pure white granulated 

 sugar, six pounds of sugar to one gallon 

 of syrup. Mr. Dupuis, the se<:retary, ex- 

 pected to sell these Damas plums in large 

 cams at five dollars forty cents a dozen, 

 and small cans at two dollars forty cents 

 a dozen. Without the improved cannery 

 the crop would have been a loss to the 

 growers. The speaker insisted on the im- 

 portance of pure fruit being used, and a 

 label being put on the tins to show who 

 was behind the work as a guarantee of 

 quality. 



In the evening an address was givem on 

 the " Commercial Handling of Mcintosh 

 and Fameuse," by Prof. T. G. Buntinir 

 Macdonald College. 



Prof. W. S. Blair described the develop- 

 ment of the Annapolis Valley in Nova 

 Scotia as an apple growing centre, and 

 gave it as his belief that it would become 

 a still greater factor a^ an apple export- 

 ing centre in years to come, although they 

 were not now taking any more trees from 

 Canadian nurseries on account of the 

 introduction of the San Jose Scale. 



Removal Sale 



The Sale of a portion of our Nursery Land at 

 Pointe Claire necessitates the removal of our 

 main nurseries. 



This land must be cleared next spring and we 

 have decided to offer the stock at a discount of 

 from 25% to 50%. 



All stock is first-cleiss and consists of 



Thirty Thousand Fruit 



Trees of the hardiest 



varieties. 



Ten Thousand Shade 

 Trees. 



Fifty Thousand Orna- 

 mental shrub and hardy 

 Perennials, Paeonies, 

 etc. 



Write at once for complete list. 



The CANADIAN NURSERY CO., Ltd. 



10 PHILLIPS PLACE - MONTREAL, P.Q. 



For the Land's Sake 



Use the best Manure 

 and get 



Good Crops 



For Nurseries, Fruit Growers 

 and Gardeners. 



Sure Growth Compost 



Makes poor land fertile and keeps fertile 

 land most productive. 



Supplied by 



S- W. Marchment 



133 Victoria St. TORONTO 



Telephones: Main 2841 ; Residence, Park 951 



Say jrou saw IhU ad. in Tha Canadian HorticakuristI 



