Peaches I 



Hale's Early 



Early Charlotte 1 For home use only; must be trained against walls 

 Alexander f to secure ripening. 



Early Crawford 

 ; Grapes 



Moore's Early 1 , 



Home use ; must have sunny exposure and warmth 

 Campbells Early \. 



\ to ripen. 

 Concord 



Plums and Prunes 



Peach Plum Early and large ; but soft and coarse and inclined to rot. 

 Czar Medium early; small; good cropper. 

 *Engelbert Very good for home or market. 

 *Italian Late; a general favourite. 

 Victoria Late; very high quality. 

 Heine Claude The best greengage. 

 Shropshire Damson The best for jams. 

 Crab-apples 



Hyslop Does better than any other crab yet grown. 

 Pears 



*Bartlett The standard early pear. 



* Louise Bonne Small on dry soils, otherwise very good. ' 

 *Bosc Scab-proof; high quality; October. 



* Cl a i rgea u November. 

 *Anjou Very good. 



Seckel ) 



Cornice [ H1 Sli-quality Pears for early winter home use. 



Apples 



Yellow Transparent Very early. 

 *Duchess Next early; gets size on dry soils. 



* Wealthy Fall; must have medium moist soil. 

 Gravenstein High quality^ but takes much attention. 



*King Best late apple here. 

 Grimes Golden "1 



Blenheim Orange (. The most promising of late varieties. 

 Wagener 

 Cox's Orange A good, small dessert apple for November and December. 



(2.) VANCOUVER ISLAND, WEST COAST. 



The boundaries given for this district are as indicated on the. map, and show 

 in a general way the area included. The list is given as a suggestion for those 

 sections which have the conditions here described. The climate is quite moist, 

 being exposed more or less to the full sweep of the Pacific, with an annual precipi- 

 tation of from 70 to 125 inches, practically all in the form of rain, occurring most 

 largely in the winter months and least in July and August. The summers are cool, 

 though July and August have considerable sunshine. The great precipitation and 

 the high relative humidity throughout the year make fungous diseases especially 

 troublesome to the fruit-grower, and even with those varieties recommended below, 

 which are least subject to such diseases, the task of producing clean fruit is not easy. 



Inside the boundaries given on the map there are many sheltered districts, where, 

 because of elevation, good soil-drainage, exposure to the sun, and freedom from frosts 

 and fog, the conditions are more like those obtained in District No. 1, and where this 

 is the case the variety list given for that section may be safely followed, due con- 

 sideration, however, being given to transportation facilities. 



The soils of the district are very much like those of the south-eastern half of 

 the Island, as described above, but have been subject to much greater washing and 

 leaching of plant-food. The greater precipitation in spring, summer, and autumn 

 months renders them much less liable to drought and adapts the district for dairying. 



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