Sweet Cherries 



Reiiie Hortense. 



Vilne Sweet. 

 Plums and Prunes 



Wolf. 



llawkeye. 



Stoddard. 



De Soto. 



Cheney. 



Also other American plums. Try also Shropshire Damson and Heine 



Claude. 

 Crab-apples 



Whitney. 



Martha. 



Transcendent. 

 Pears 



Flemish Beauty. 

 Apples 



Yellow Transparent. 



Char m aloft. 



Tetofsky. 



Duchess. 



Wealthy. 



McMahon White. 



Longfield. 



Mclntosh Red ) 



Scott's Winter \ Wortliy ot trial 



Milwaukee. 



North-west Greening. 



(16.) CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA. 



Outside of the areas described under previous headings as the fruit districts of 

 southern British Columbia, there remains the greater part of the possible agricul- 

 tural area of the Province which falls east of the Cascade Mountains and north 

 of the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Through this country the main 

 lines of the Canadian Northern and the Grand Trunk Pacific will run, and here 

 it is that tremendous agricultural development will undoubtedly take place in the 

 near future. All authorities who have visited this great and hitherto unknown 

 country unite in according it a great future in mixed farming and general agricul- 

 ture. On account of the character of the growing season, which is inclined to 

 be somewhat short and cool, with occasional summer frosts, together with winter 

 temperatures, that will prove too severe for most of the commercial varieties of 

 fruit, the district is not expected to become one for commercial fruit-production. 

 There will, of course, always be a ready local market for whatever fruit is produced, 

 but the principal function fruit-growing will have will be that of providing some- 

 thing for the farmer's home. 



This great area includes those valleys of the north which are now so much 

 in the public eye, including the Upper Skeena, the Upper Fraser, the Bulkley, 

 Stewart, the Nechaco, and all the territory described now as the Fort George 

 country. 



The reports in the hands of the Department of Agriculture would indicate 

 that while the soils throughout this country are variable, as in the rest of the 

 Province, yet there is a large proportion of good agricultural land which will be 

 quite suitable for experimental work with fruit. Up to the present time there 

 have not been brought to the attention of the Department any fruit-trees farther 

 north than Soda Creek and Quesnel in the Fraser basin, except some which have 

 been planted in the last two years. We believe that, with the choice of the hardier 



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