August, 1909 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



'77 



NOTES FROM THE PROVINCES 



New Brunswick Fruit Growing 



In many sections of New Brunswick, 

 fruit growing is past its experimental stage 

 as a visit to numerous orchards or an in- 

 spection of fruit exhibits at our various ex- 

 hibitions will demonstrate. Nearly all the 

 small fruits, many varieties of plums and 

 pears, and all but a very few varieties of 

 apples flourish in the province when care is 

 given to their culture and growth. In the 

 lower part of the St. John Valley the most 

 progress has been made and there all the 

 standard varieties of winter apples grown 

 in Nova Scotia are produced with good suc- 

 cess. Such varieties as American Baldwin, 

 King, Spy, Ribston, Bishop Pippin (Yel- 

 low Bellflower), Golden Russet, esjiecially 

 if top grafted on native stocks, adapt 

 themselves to the climatic conditions. The 

 Gravenstein also does well top-grafted. The 

 territory to which these remarks refer is 

 known to extend from Oak Point to the Or- 

 omocto River, and to stretch back on either 

 side of the River St. John an undetermined 

 distance. Various places along the Belle 

 Isle, Washademock and Grand Lake shores, 

 as also parts of Albert and Westmorland 

 counties, grow good winter varieties. 



All these districts as well as many others, 

 especially the St. John River Valley from 

 Oromocto to the Victoria county line, grow 

 the best varieties of late autumn apples 

 such as Mcintosh Red, Wealthy, St. Law- 

 rence, Wolf River, Alexander and Pameuse, 

 and this district also has considerable win- 



ter fruit. In parts of Victoria county, in 

 Madawaska and on exposed situations 

 along the sea coast, apple growing has not 

 proved successful, but with these exceptions 

 all the best early fall varieties of apples 

 can be grown throughout the province. 



The "illustration orchards" might well be 

 extended and more use made of them as ob- 

 ject lessons in apple growing. Orchard 

 meetings under the charge of an expert 

 horticulturist have done good work in the 

 past, and can be continued with great ad- 

 vantage. 



Experts, competent to speak with auth- 

 ority, tell us that a larger area of first-class 

 apple growing country exists in New Bruns- 

 wick than is to be found in Nova Scotia. 

 At present but little care and skill is given 

 to the selection and planting of varieties 

 suitable to the various localities, to the set- 

 ting out and care of young trees or to the 

 necessary care of bearing orchards. Market- 

 ing ,is done very badly, yet there are a 

 number of orchardists who are setting an 

 example and proving that api)le growing 

 is a very profitable business. 



A great success of strawberry culture is 

 being made by a number of growers, their 

 berries having the highest reputation 

 wherever sold from Sydney, Nova Scotia, 

 to Montreal and Boston. Mention should 

 also be made of the immense crops of blue- 

 berries that grow anywhere in the province 

 where a fire has prepared the land for them. 

 They are exported to the United States in 

 large quantities. Wild raspberries in some 



sections also form an export crop. Cran- 

 berries grow on suitable bogs everywhere. 

 At St. Martins, a variety of cranberry of 

 high quality grows on the upland fields. 



The employment of a good horticulturist 

 who would devote his time to the develop- 

 ment of fruit interests throughout the Pro- 

 vince would be a most valuable and needed 

 aid to the development of what can be made 

 a great industry. — From Report of New 

 Brunswick Agricultural Commission, March, 

 1909. 



Frcdcricton 



Editor, The Can.\dian Hobtiouliurist : 

 We have noticed in several issues of your 

 paper a request for information regarding 

 our doings in the maritime provinces. In 

 a small town or city of some 7,000 we 

 cannot be specialists in any one thing. We 

 have to be both florists and general horti- 

 culturists, with a few acres of land, either 

 owned or leased, near at hand, with green- 

 houses, hotbeds, sashes and so forth, as a 

 means of producing early flowers and veg- 

 etables. During late fall we prepare for 

 winter by marketing or storing the crop 

 of potatoes, celery, cabbage, turnips and 

 carrots. Some of these pay better if kept 

 till spring if stored safely away. We have as 

 the wise man said, "A time and season for 

 everything under the sun." This is true in 

 horticultural matters. 



I will instance this by our leading fruit 

 grower in this locality, Mr. J. C. Gilman, 

 who has found that it would be to his great 

 advantage to build a suitable cold storage 

 for keeping several hundred barrels of 

 apples. The consumers, as they have no 

 suitable place for storing, prefer buying in 

 small quantities and thus Mr. Gilman can 

 supply at a few hours notice, a barrel or 

 half a barrel of fruit in fall, winter or 



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Our trees are grown under climatic conditions almost identical with those of the best 

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Department of Agriculture, Experimental Farm of B.C., 

 Messrs. Stone & Wellington, Agassiz, May 29th, 11X16. 



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 soil arc bettor constil uted than those tfrown on (his coast, where 

 there is no lime in the soil. Yours faithfully. 



iSignedJ Tiios. A. Shaki-k 



One of our Apple Trees in Orchard of A. Rutherford 

 Balcomo, B.C., in full bearing, planted only 3 yean. 



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