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11 million Philippines. This broad outlook on the markets of the world Is 

 one of the most striking features of North-Western fruit-growing. 



" (5.) It is full of enthusiasm and aggressiveness. The special difficul- 

 ties and uncertainties in marketing their fruit have made North-Western 

 fruit-growers keen business men as well as skilful cultivators. Lack of 

 business acumen in marketing is fully as often responsible for unsuccessful 

 fruit-growing as lack of skill in culture. The horticultural meetings of the 

 North- West are full of snap and vim; every man seems to have a lot of 

 questions which he wants answered right away. The eagerness of these men 

 to learn, to find a better way than the old, is very apparent. 



"Generally speaking, this broad outlook, this aggressiveness, and con- 

 stant reaching out for the new, are the most striking features of North- 

 Western fruit-growing. Certainly these are the things which make the 

 deepest impression on one who has received most of his horticultural training 

 in the more conservative East. Eastern fruit-growers have their own special 

 difficulties. They have merits as well as shortcomings which Western fruit- 

 growers have not. Perhaps it is not fair to compare the two classes. It is 

 no captious or critical spirit which leads me to wish that our Atlantic Coast 

 fruit-growers might catch a little more of the enthusiasm, the aggressiveness 

 and the open mind which characterises the fruit-growers of the Pacific 

 North-West. It is but the unbiased comment of one who has observed 

 both, and who believes that each can learn from the other." 



J. R. ANDERSON, 



Deputy Minister of Agriculture, 

 ut of Ayriculturc, 

 Victoria, B. C., June, 1907. 



VICTORIA, B. C. : 



Printed by RICHARD WOLFKNDKN, I.S.O., V D., Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 



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