ready market for all it has produced. In this district is grown the Ashcroft potato, 

 which has a reputation all over Western Canada. 



Fruit-growing in this district is looked on with favour, because of the 

 generally high character of the soil, and the advantages of the summer climate for 

 producing high colour and quality. Present production is not at all large, coming 

 as it does from only a few old orchards planted around the establishments of the 

 big cattle-ranches of a decade ago. 1?hese large ranches are being split up, where 

 irrigation-water for their cultivable areas is to be had, into 10-, 15-, and 20-acre 

 tracts for apple-culture. Plantings have been mostly along the lines of the varieties 

 starred in the variety list recommended below, and these varieties are as a rule 

 doing well. We do not recommend Spitzenberg or Yellow Newtown for this district, 

 as occasional winters may be too severe for them. 



This district will, in a few years, be one of the largest shippers of fruits and 

 vegetables in the Province as the projects now under way become settled and 

 planted. 



Strawberries 



Magoon. 

 Raspberries 

 Herbert. 

 Cuthbert 

 Gooseberries 



Oregon Champion. 

 Downing. 

 Industry. 

 Red Currants 

 Fay. 

 Victoria. 

 Sour Cherries 



Montmorency. 

 Sweet Cherries 

 Reine Hortense. 

 Bing. 



Plums and Prunes 

 Peach Plum. 

 Bradshaw. 

 Pond's Seedling. 

 Italian. 

 Damson. 

 Reine Claude. 

 Crab-apples 



Transcendent 

 Pears 



Bartlett. 

 Flemish Beauty. 

 An j on. 

 Apples 



Yellow Transparent. 

 Duchess. 



^ e f 1 ! hy ^ I The best two apples to plant. 

 *McIntosh j 



Jonathan. 

 Grimes Golden. 



Scott's Winter Worthy of trial. 

 *Winesap In part of the district is very good. 

 (8.) SOUTHERN CENTRAL PLATEAU. 



In southern British Columbia there is a great deal of farming and ranching 

 carried on at elevations of from 2,000 to 3,500 feet in a Dry Belt country having 



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