Plums and Prunes 



Peach Plum. 



Bradshaw. 



Yellow Egg. 



Pond's Seedling. 



Italian Prune. 



Washington. 



Shropshire Damson. 

 Grapes 



Moore's Early. 



Concord. 



Niagara. 



Delaware. 

 Crab-apples 



Transcendent. 

 Pears 



*Flemish Beauty 



*Bartlett 



Howell 

 *Anjou 

 *Bosc 



Pears have done remarkably well on the lower lands 

 at Kelowna, and this seems to warrant further 

 planting. 



*Clairgeau 

 Apples 



Transparent. 



Duchess. 



Wealthy. 

 *McIntosh. 

 "Jonathan. 



*Wagener Has been winter-injured to some extent. 

 *Grimes Golden. 

 *Rome Beauty. 



Deliicious Worthy of extensive trial here. 



Yellow Newtown Worthy of further trial. 

 *Northern Spy In certain locations. 



(11.) LOWER OKANAGAN LAKE. 



In this area are included the communities of Peachland, Summerland, Penticton, 

 Naramata, and some smaller ones. 



The climates at elevations of from 1,200 to 1,700 feet in the Lower Okanagan 

 Lake District are rather milder, with longer growing seasons, than on the upper 

 part of the lake, but there is every reason to believe that the benches of Kelowna, 

 for instance, have practically as long and as favourable a growing season as have 

 those of Summerland. There is no marked distinction, the general climatic condi- 

 tions being more favourable in the south. 



In proportion to the area ultimately available, this district has been more 

 thoroughly developed in the past eight years than probably any other similar area 

 in the Province. In Peachland, Summerland, and Penticton, nearly all of the 

 possible land-area is under cultivation, and 75 per cent, of it is devoted to fruit. 

 There will be, however, further plantings in this favoured district, and in every 

 community there is a great deal of changing of poor varieties to better ones to 

 be accomplished. 



The climate is rather more arid than farther up the lake, the annual precipita- 

 tion at Summerland and Penticton for a five years' record in each case showing 

 about 10 inches precipitation, as against I2y 2 at Kelowna and 14^ at Vernon. 

 The growing season lasts from April 3rd to about October 26th, and averages, 

 therefore, around 206 days long. At the lake-level the season is ten days longer 

 than on the benches 200 or 300 feet above it, and there are a few hundred more 



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