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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



September, 19:1 



Important and Useful Book 



THE CANADIAN 

 APPLE GROWERS' GUIDE 



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Some History 



about Typewriters 



Modern and Ancient 



CHAPTER a 



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to the foregoing instructions, as you are 

 personally responsible. 



Don't allow your barrels to get wet either 

 before or after packing. When apples are 

 packed either load on cars or place in a 

 sheltered cool place with plenty of ventila- 

 tion. 



All members should help build up our 

 reputation in honest packing of apples. 



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British Columbia Notes 



Superintendent R. W. Allen of the Ore- 

 gon Agriucltural College Experiment Sta- 

 tion at Umatilla addressed British Columbia 

 fruit growers in a three weeks' series of lec- 

 tures held during July. He began at Kam- 

 loops and travelled south through the Okaa- 

 agan district, giving field demonstrations 

 in the afternoons and stereopticon lectures 

 in the evenings on orchard irrigation. 



Mr. Herbert Garaway, the manager ot 

 the Okanagan Fruit Union, one of the 

 largest fruit-handling companies in British 

 Columbia, has expressed the opinion that 

 within the next few years the Okanagan 

 will be transformed into a great apple- 

 gj owing country with peaches and other 

 tender-skinned fruit almost entirely elim- 

 inated. In the north end of the valley no 

 poaches or apricots have been produced at 

 all, but in the district south of Kelowna, 

 which has only recently been given up to 

 fruit ranching, peach orchards have been 

 laid out in a very generous style. Peaches 

 havo, however, proved to be a most unde- 

 pe:idable crop, while on the other hand ap. 

 ple3 are a certainty, can be grown at less 

 cost and are much easier to handle and 

 ship. This year the peach crop will be 

 small. Practically every order that has 

 gone into the big nurseries this year has 

 been for apple trees. The entire irrigated 

 zone in the dry belt bids fair to be covered 

 with apple orchards. 



The provincial nursery inspectors this 

 year have condemned seventy thousand six 

 hundred and sixteen trees shipped into the 

 province by outside nurseries. The major- 

 ity of the importations were from the Unit- 

 ed States, but there was also a good num- 

 ber from continental Europe and from other 

 parts of the world. 



The provincial fruit inspector, Thomas 

 Cunningham, reports that in certain east- 

 ern sections of the province insect pests 

 have been much more in evidence than in 

 recent years, as well as black knot on plum 

 and cherry trees. 



In spite of the fact that the output of 

 the home nurseries in British Columbia is 

 increasing by leaps and bounds, the impor- 

 tations from other states and provinces 

 never were so large as at present. The in- 

 crease in importations — 1911 over 1910 — 

 was more than 40 per cent. The total num- 

 ber of trees and plants imported up to 

 April 30th for the present year was over 

 3,000,000. 



The directors of the British Columbia 

 Fruit Growers' Association have made a 

 number of important recommendations to 

 the provincial government. They urge the 

 government to take immediate steps to have 

 reliable reports made on new and untried 

 districts which are now being exploited as 

 fruit districts, in order that new, ignorant 

 settlers may not be led into worthless in- 

 vestments by ignorant or unscrupulous 

 agents or land companies ; that a plant 

 pathologist and entomologist be engaged 

 and given facilities for conducting labora- 



