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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



August, 1909 



class for 20 varieties. A. H. Dangerfield, 

 "Winnipeg, won first for collection of pansies. 



Among the exhibits not for competition, 

 the best was the large fruit display sent 

 up by the Ontario Department of Agricul- 

 ture. This attracted a great deal of favor- 

 able attention and should help to popularize 

 Ontario fruit on the western market. lor 

 years the British Columbia government has 

 sent a fruit exhibit, but this year none was 

 present. The board of trade at Nelson, 

 B.C., put up a nice exhibit which included 

 a good deal of fruit. 



An exhibit of Manitoba-grown roses and 

 peonies as well as bottled home-grown fruits 

 was sent in by the Buchanan Nursery Co., 

 of St. Charles. The Elmwood Cemetery Co., 

 Winnipeg, filled a corner with some choice 

 ornamental stock. 



The dates for the coming provincial horti- 

 cultural exhibition to be held in this city 

 have been fixed for August 25, 26 and 27. 

 This event, a year ago, was a great success, 

 and there is everv reason to exnect a better 

 show this year. The Brandon Horticultural 

 Exhibition will be held in ITliat city on Aug- 

 ust 24 and 25. 



secretary of the exhibition is Mr. H. G. 

 Burrows, Calgary. 



Alberta 



Arrangements have been made to have a 

 spectacular flower parade through the 

 streets of Calgary in connection with the 

 Horticultural Exhibition on August 12th. 

 The idea is to have all the districts in Al- 

 berta represented in the parade, the fruit, 

 flower and vegetable products of each dis- 

 trict to be exhibited on floats. It is ex- 

 pected that this will be a feature of much 

 interest. 



At the exhibition, it is expected that 

 there will be a grand display of horticul- 

 tural products. All kinds of flowers, fruits 

 and vegetables grown in the province will 

 be shown in separate classes. Awards will 

 be given, also, for the best kept and laid- 

 out gardens, lawns and borders, host culti- 

 vated trees, window boxes, bouquets of wild 

 flowers and collection of native flowers. The 



British Columbia 



YALE-OARIBOO, B.C. 



Keremeos.— Apples, cherries, plums and 

 pears, good; peaches, failure. — J. E. A. 



Salmon Arm.— Apple crop will be good ; 

 plums and prunes, fair ; cherries, good ; 

 pears, light; raspberries and blackberries, 

 full crop.— J. C. B. 



KOOTENAY CO., B.C. 



Crawford Bay. — Apples promiso to be 

 plentiful. Some orchards are affected by 

 canker, but we expect to control it. — R.B. 



NEW WESTMINSTER CO. 



Sardis.— Cherries, light; plums and 

 prunes, medium ; raspberries and blackber- 

 ries, good. Apples will be medium. Cank- 

 er is prevalent. Aphis of all kinds have 

 done much damage. Black spot is showing 

 on apples that were not sprayed. — J.B. 



Agassiz.— All fruits are a very light crop. 

 A little brown rot is in plums. Insect pests 

 are not serious this season. — T.A.S. 



Hammond. — Fruit crop is slim this year. 

 Raspberries and blackberries are showing 

 well. Tree fruits are light and poor in 

 quality. Much fungous disease is showing 

 and tent caterpillars were bad. Markets 

 for small fruits are bad, as American fruits 

 are flooding the prairie towns. — J.B. 



The manager and secretary of the Okana- 

 gan Fruit Union, Limited, that was organ- 

 ized this spring, are respectively, Mr. F>. E. 

 Samson and Mr. Cecil H. Oliver, both of 

 Vernon, B.C. 



The dates for the second National Apple 

 Show to be held at Spokane, Wash., have 

 been changed from Dec. 6-11, to Nov. 15- 

 20 The management is looking for a big 

 showing of fruit from British Columbia, 

 Ontario and the other provinces of Canada. 

 Intending competitors can secure any infor- 

 mation and prize lists from the secretary, 

 Mr. Ren. H. Rice, Spokane, Wash. 



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Kootcnay Valley, B.C. 



Edgar W Dynes. 



For the past few weeks, the growers have 

 been busy harvesting the strawberry crop. 

 On the whole the crop appears to have been 

 lighter than in some previous years but the 

 returns have been much more satisfactory. 



There are a number of reasons for this, 

 among them being that the growers are 

 learning to grow the varieties of berries 

 that ship best ; a second is that the estab- 

 lishment of the Kootenay Jam Factory has 

 provided a local market for all the second 

 grade fruit which would otherwise have 

 gone to waste ; and thirdly, the Dominion 

 Express Company made special provision 

 for the transportation of the berries by fit- 

 ting up a barge especially for the purpose. 

 Perhaps, a more definite mention of these 

 various items might be of interest. As to the 

 transportation facilities afforded it might 

 be well to contrast the methods adopted in 

 previous seasons with such ill success to the 

 methods adopted this year with such splen- 

 did results. 



In previous years the berries were all gath- 

 ered by the outgoing steamer leaving Nelson 

 in the morning and reaching Koot- 

 enay Landing about noon where a 

 connection was made with the Crows' 

 Nest Line. This meant that the ber- 

 ries were loaded into the cars in the 

 middle of the day, and, despite the fact that 

 cars were always iced and re-iced in transit, 

 the berries did not ship well. This year, 

 a barge was fitted up wth a temporary top, 

 and instead of leaving Nelson in the morn- 

 ing, left at six o'clock in the evening, gath- 

 ering berries along the lake en route, reach- 

 ing Kootenay Landing early in the morning 

 and giving plenty of time to have the ber- 

 ries properly cooled and carefully loaded 

 before train time. In this way the berries 

 have all shipped well and the rturns have 

 been satisfactory, netting the growers from 

 $2 a crate and upwards and in instances 

 as high as $3 a crate. 



The importance of the establishment of 

 the Kootenay Jam Factory can hardly be 

 overestimated. The Kaslo Kootenaian in a 

 recent issue reports that one grower sold 

 $400 worth of berries to the Jam Factory 

 off three quarters of an acre after the sel- 

 ected berries had been shipped. 



Mr. Gaunce, of the McPherson Fruit 

 Company of Calgary, which purchased the 

 bulk of the strawberry crop mis year, ex- 

 presses himself as well pleased with what 

 he saw and commented very favorably upon 

 the quality of the fruit sold to him and 

 also upon the excellent manner in which it 

 was packed by the growers. In only one 

 instance, he said, did he have to send a 

 crate of berries back because of poor quality 

 or careless packing. The present indica- 

 tions are that a very much larger acreage 

 will be planted in strawberries this fall than 

 in any previous year. 



The Express Company Incident 



The fruit growers of the Niagara penin- 

 sula protested to the Board of Railway Cora- | 

 missioners, on July 7, against the raising ' 

 of express rates on fruit shipped from 

 Queenston and neighborhood to Toronto. 

 After hearing the evidence. Judge Mabee 

 ordered the Canadian Express Company to 

 restore its rates on fruit from Queenston 

 to Toronto to 30 cents as the company had 

 agreed that the rates in efltect when the 

 Railway Commission undertook an investi- 

 gation of express rates, would be maintain- 

 ed while the matter was before the Board. 

 The Canadian Express Company had raised 

 its rates from 30 cents to 40 cents despite 

 this agreement. According to the company 

 this was done because the business did not 

 pay at the lower rate but, as remarked 



