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CANADA 



Manitoba and the Northwest Territories.— As 

 far as the tree fruits are concerned, those which can be 

 grown successfully in these regions without extraordi- 

 nary care have yet to be produced. A few Russian 

 apples and Siberian crabs have survived and have pro- 

 duced some fruit in southeastern Manitoba. Piiriis 

 baccata (the berried crab of Europi-) i- h u'i. :([ tIi. l>..m. 

 Experiment Stations at Brandon, .M:ih , ■ i : ll.;[il, 



N.W.Terr. This has been cros^.,| i i. inMa-st 

 Russian apples in r 



of 



Wi'tll t'li'^ :■'.■. . 



table exc,i,ii„ii-ir 

 success. The natural obstacles 

 Manitoba than in the Provinces 

 and Saskatchewan, where bate sj 

 and periods of summer droui^ht 

 make the cultiviLli^n ..I llip h; 

 gooseberries and rni cmi - , -I i ilir 

 live tj-pes of fhc^ 



l)rove 



! that the 1. M 

 many tbousai 

 fruit of edibl 



ded by belts of timber, small 

 grapes, howovcr. bring a no- 



344. British Columb 



British Columbia. 

 J. R. Anderson, Deputy Minister of Agriculture for the 

 province, for much of the following data. British Col- 

 umbia is wondprfiillv div.r -ifirrl, :nid 1ki<s sreat fruit- 

 growing possibiliii - 'I i'r.'i-. it^ .-Ma-T line, its 



Talleys, its benclH :•• IhmN. i Ir.ai .■limatic 



es of fri 



; found in any other prov- 



der 



'It. 



and La 

 fruit. ■: 



greater part of the country would 

 indeed, for that matter, crops ol 

 gradually trials were made by 

 miners, packers, and others ijue 

 cal farmers or fruit-grower^ i , am 

 upon the sparse population ihai 

 would grow in most parts i.f 

 province, and of that part knowi 

 between the Coast Range and 

 Then it appeared to occur to thi 



>y the early settlers in and 

 Company's forts of Victoria 

 ees would mature and bear 

 a deep rill, teii belief tliat the 



procured from California, and in most cases all were 

 found tn he sneoessfnl. Up to this time (between 1855 

 and 1m;iii, ni.i-t .,f ilie fmit was the produce of seed- 

 lin^'~, tlie oil -iTiri- ol' „.eiU iiroeured friiiii otlier coun- 

 tries, whieh III 111- aeeliiiiali/.ed. with a L.-oi,d climate, 

 freedom of insert p.^ts aial dNea>es, produeed wonder- 

 ful crops without the trouble of cultivating, pruning and 

 spraying. Now, however, fruit trees of a superior qual- 

 ity began to be imported, and for some time throve 

 equally well as those of humbler origin, but by and by, 

 for some unaccountable reason, the trees did not bear 

 as well as formerly, nor was the fruit as good or as 

 large as it used to be, and old-timers wondered what was 

 the matter, and so things went on from bad to worse, 

 until i""ple of a new generation began to settle in the 



I • who soon ascertained the cause of failure to 



■ I . o the importation with the trees, from the 

 : I I in;,' states and provinces, of pests and dis- 

 I ihi rto unknown in tlie province. It was then 

 ili:ii 1 1ll- li mslaiiMT eiia.ird ilie I i o rt ieultural Board Act, 

 \\ hh h pro\ hli ~ lor III, a|,|K,ii,iiii, III ,,f a "Board," whose 

 ■ lull, - ;,i , , ,„/,,■.//'-', I,, 11,-],, .1 ,ill iniit and fruit trees 

 eiitiriim' ih,- pr,,\ in.e. an.l ,,r,liar,ls within the province, 

 ami to make such recommendations in the interest of 

 fruit-growers as they may deem necessary. It has fol- 

 lowed, as a matter of course, that in consequence of the 

 stringent regulations, a better class of nursery stock is 

 ■ ported into the province, and although it is quite 

 impossible, even with the strictest in- 

 spection, to detect all infestations, and 

 although people have been slow in 

 adopting even those measures best cal- 

 culated for their benefit which have been 

 recommended by the Board of Horticul- 

 ture, there is a marked improvement 

 in the state of the orchards of the prov- 

 ince, and of the fruit pro- 

 _ duced. 



The young orchards 

 planted out since the inau- 

 guration of the newer and 

 more intelligent methods, 

 are likewise coming into 

 bearing. The production 

 of fruit is even now in 

 many lines in excess of 

 local demands, and hence, 

 in view of the line of action 

 pursued by the Board of 

 Horticulture, which now 

 prevents this province 

 from being the dumping 

 ground for the refuse fruit 



of the n,-i^;,l...riii,' -lal.s, 



it may reasonably be concluded that ' ii ,,f' 



fruits will be restricted in the future tor. , , i , i u 



which mature in the south, or to the |,i o , i ilm 



antipodes at a time when those of this cuuuu;, an not 

 in season. 



J^™t(s. — "The principal fruits produced in the 

 province are apples, pears, cherries, plums, prunes, and 

 all the small fruits. Other fruits, such as peaches and 

 grapes, have not been produced in sullicieiit quantities 

 to meet the demand, those like the tirst named having 

 been at first considered unsnilaMe t,, tlie country, but 

 are now fmind to do excellently in n,aii\ parts." 



f mil S. ■!,,,„ . s,,Mi,. ,,i' ill. i„-iriiM, lands are to 



be I',, 1111,1 ;,l',i.- :1m II .i-mI !•■. :;. :'■ on either 



side 1,1 111,, ir .1 ■, . ■ I I- I I- ,■. This is 



\- 1 ri,,. -I 1 11,- 1, iiMniL' 1,1,. I 'i-aser river 



■iillll»a,-k ahil Hope. The region along the 

 ver troin Ai,Mssi/. to the coast is one abun- 

 pplied with water and now producing large 



part I, a, II 

 between 

 Fraser : 

 dantly s 

 quantitii 



Liia,lnally dawned 

 ,], s and field crops 

 coast line of the 

 the dry belt lying 

 Rocky mountains, 

 sidents that othe 



fruits might do, and thereupon trees and plants were 



and berries. Some of the 

 adapted to the require- 

 nn-nts of 111,- I, nderi-t ine t'riiits. Peaches are being 

 snec, -vliilh i-iili i\ :it,-,l li.-n- and there on the lower 

 la-ncli laiiiK. Till- a iiipan\ inur map shows the princi- 

 pal fruit priiilu, dm; anas of the jinivince. At Vernon, 

 in the Okanagan valley, the Earl of Aberdeen, a late 

 governor-general of Canada, has an extensive orchard 

 of 200 acres. Here an irrigation plant, while not deemed 

 absolutely essential to fruit-growing, is thought to be a 



