railway connections with Vancouver, now under construction, put the district In 

 a very favourable position for the production of all kinds of early vegetables and 

 many kinds of fruits for that market. 



An idea of the present state of production and the plantings already made is 

 given from the following quotations from our Orchard Survey: 



" Twenty-six orchards, with an ar^a of 572% acres, were visited here, fruit-trees 

 being planted as follows: 



" Apples 30,841 



Pears 709 



Plums 600 



Prunes 76 



Peaches 7,126 



Apricots 166 



Cherries 326 



" Of the apple-trees planted, 76 per cent, were five years old and under, and 

 24 per cent, over five years old. The varieties are: 



" Mclntosh Red 13.7 per cent 



Jonathan 38.5 



Wagener 2.8 



Spitzenberg 13.7 



Newtown 7.0 



Baldwin 7.1 



Other winter varieties 17.1 ,, 



(The latter include Winesap, Yellow Belleflower, and 



Delicious.)." 



The section on the Okanagan River and Osoyoos Lake is very well described 

 in the following paragraphs from our report on Orchard Survey: 



" Fa/irview District. 



" From here to the boundary, a distance of twelve miles is a very large area of 

 bench land lying west of the Okanagan River and Osoyoos Lake, at an elevation of 

 900 to 1,400 feet. The land suitable for fruit-trees is estimated at a minimum of 

 20,000 acres, the soil throughout being a deep sandy loam with volcanic ash, and 

 the climate one of the driest in British Columbia. The precipitation for the last 

 twelve months (rain and snow) was 5 inches, with minimum temperatures on 

 January 12th and 13th, 1911, of -12 degrees, and on February 2nd, -3 degrees. 



"There are only two orchards in this great area, the Park Ranching Co. 

 (25 acres) and Leslie Hill's (36 acres), the reason being the lack of irrigation- 

 water." 



The list of fruits recommended for the district is as follows: 

 Strawberries 

 Magoon. 

 Glen Mary. 

 Dunlop. 

 Raspberry 



Cuthbert. 

 Gooseberries 



Oregon Champion. 

 Downing. 

 Industry. 

 Blackberries 

 Snyder. 

 Agawam. 

 Red Currants 

 Cherry. 

 Fay. 



Black Currants 

 Naples. 



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