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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



August, 1914. 



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Late Fruit Crop Reports 



The foUovvinjf tcliKraphic reports dcal- 

 iiiK with fruit crop conditions were receiv- 

 ed by the Dominion Fruit Commissioner, 

 and published und<r date of July 15th: 



New Brunswick— (Province h;is splendid 

 youiiK orchards, but not yet producing suffi- 

 < ient fruit for home consumption). Apple 

 crop promises seventy per cent, crop only, 

 a few orchards injured by frost. Scab 

 showinff very little. Summer and fall var 

 ietios heavier than winters. Size and 



quality good. Raspberries promisinjf well. 



Nova Scotia — Weather conditions favor- 

 able. Very little spot showing. Gen' ral 

 estimate of apple crop too large. The < r'.p 

 will be, at most, one million barrels. Spy, 

 King, Russet. Wagener, Bellefleur, Bald- 

 win, and Ribston leading. Nonpareil, 

 Hlenheim, Fallwater, Stark, Gravenstein, 

 and Ben Davis light. Crop last year 

 650,000 barrels, 1912 1,000,000 barrels, and 

 in 1911 a record crop of 1,750,000 barrels. 



Quebec — Most sections looking well. 

 Fameuse aind Mcintosh dropped heavily, 

 but sufficient left on trees for good crop. 

 Cherries heavy crop. Bush fruits good. 



ONT.IRIO CO.NDITIONS. 



Lambton — Apple crop forty per cent, 

 above 191.3, and fifteen per cent, below 

 1C12. Weather has been hot and dry for 

 six weeks, with sufficient drop to prevent 

 thinning. Favorable showers this week 

 and well sprayed orchards will have a good 

 commercial crop of clean fruit. Plums amd 

 pears fair to good, but much lighter than 

 last year. Grapes promise a good crop. 



Norfolk— Crop one-third heavier than 

 1913. and one-third lighter than 1912. Fun- 

 gus prevalent, but duality is good in or- 

 chards that have been well sprayed. 



Huron — Crop about twenty-five per cent, 

 heavier than 1913, in spite of heavy drop. 

 Quality will be good. Plums light. 



Counties North of Lake Ontario — Pros- 

 pects not so good as expected. Drop has 

 been heavy. Crop will run about same as 

 last year, or about twenty-five per cent, less 

 than 1912. Fruit well distributed and all 

 trees bearing. Weather conditions fair. 



BRITISH COI.T'MHM. 



Okanagan Valley — Long, dry spell was 

 broken by rain. Quality of apple crop ex- 

 cellent. Total crop will approximate 1,000 

 cars, which is equal to the crop of 1912 and 

 twenty-five per cent, greater than 1913, with 

 Wealthy, Jonathan, Wagener, and Mcin- 

 tosh heaviest. Pe^rs twenty per cent, ui- 

 crease over 1913. Tomato acreage increas- 

 ed twenty-five per cent. Peaches a fair 

 crop totalling 50,000 twenty-pound boxes. 



United States— Western New York crop 

 is slightlv less than 1912, and double that 

 of 1913. ' States of Washington, Oregon, 

 Montana and Idaho average eighty-one per 

 cent., as compared with eighty-four per 

 cent, in 1913, and ninetyi-one per cent, in 

 1912. 



London, England — Latter half of June 

 very dry, but rain general during early part 

 of July. Present conditions favorable. 

 Plums about average. Kente and neigh- 

 boring counties show fair apple crop. Mid- 

 land counties very uneven. 



Last year the United Fruit Companies of 

 Nova Scotia Ltd. bought for its members : 

 575,000 pulp heads, 35,000 lbs. nails. 67,800 

 lbs, grass and clover seed, 22,745 lbs. seeds 

 various, 48,300 vetches, 4,500 bus. seed oats, 

 2,060 bbls. flour, 19,649 bags of feed, 6,044 

 tons fertilizers 104,000 lbs. arsenate of lead, 

 8,900 rods wire fence, 1.900 bbls. lime sul- 

 phur, 2,200 lbs. Black Leaf 40. These sup- 

 plies cost in round figures $183,000. Fire 

 insurance risks for $450,000 were handled. 



