Fig. 2682. Home of M. Aug. Dupuis, Village des Aulnais, Que. Photo by f. t. shutt. 



A DRIVE THROUGH THE FRUIT BELT OF THE 

 LOWER ST. LAWRENCE. 



W. T. MACOUN, 



HORTICULTURIST, CENTRAL EXPERIMENTAL FARM, OTTAWA. 



THERE is a district in the Province ct 

 Quebec where good fruit is grown 

 which has not often been brought 

 prominently before the readers of the Horti- 

 culturist ; this may be due partly to the fact 

 that the fruit growers t'here are more modest 

 than in some other parts of Canada, and 

 partly because they are for the most part 

 French Canadians who do not receive the 

 Horticulturist. The writer refers to that 

 tract of country along the south shore of the 

 St Lawrence river extending from Levis, 



opposite Quebec, through the counties of 

 Levis, Bellechasse, L'Islet, Beauce and 

 Kamouraska, a distance of about one hun- 

 dred miles, and reaching about latitude 47 

 degrees 50 minutes. 



Although the winters in this part >f 

 Canada are very severe, the temperature oc- 

 casionally falling to 30 degrees below zero, 

 the St. Lawrence river has such a favorable 

 influence that European plums and cherries 

 and other fruits which will not succeed ?t 

 Ottawa are grown here to perfection, the 



