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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



September, 1909 



This is just the season to get the most 

 benefit from thinning fruits. The fewer 

 apples that are left on the trees this dry 

 weather the nearer marketable size will the 

 lemaining ones grow. The difference be- 

 tween those thinned and not thinned is al- 

 ready apparent. 



Montreal 



E. H. Wuiman, Daminion Fruit Inspector 



Montreal as a fruit distributing point 

 shows wonderful activity at this season. On 

 July 29, Aug. 2 and 5, 29 cars of California, 

 fruits were sold by the Montreal Fruit Auc- 

 tion Co. J. J. Callaghan, auctioneer, 

 beats all records by selling eight cars cf 

 California fr"its in three quarters of an 

 hour. These 29 cars were sold within a week, 

 aggregating in cash $30,000. The California 

 fruits, pears, plums, peaches, nectarines and 

 grapes are particularly fine in quality and 

 well packed. As the individual fruit is 

 wrapped and closely packed in boxes and 

 crates tends to its keeping quality, the per- 

 centage of wasty boxes is very small. When 

 we try to suoply our city wants and coun- 

 try orders a large stream has to continually 

 come in to meet the emergency. Think of 

 56 cars of United States strawberries com- 

 ing to our market before our own are ready 

 to pick. When we add our banana trade 

 and lemons, oranges and melons, the aggre- 

 gate is very large. 



Well, what about our own domestic fruits 

 this year. P Cherries and raspberries are com- 

 ing in large quantities. The quality has been 

 very fine. Conditions have been so good in 

 grading, fullness of baskets and boxes, and 

 general honestv of packs, that they have 

 caused a confidence in the minds of l^uyers, 

 and fruit men here declare there has been 

 a large and nrofitable volume of busmess 

 all around. The apple crop on Island of 



Montreal does not look too promising cr 

 in the eastern townships either, whore you 

 hear the growers say, "I usually have 200 

 bushels, but this year I will have to buy.'' 

 Nevertheless, I am of the opinion that we 

 will run far over the million mark for ex- 

 port in apples this year. It becomes all 

 persons in the fruit trade of our Dominion 

 to do his or her best in the building up of 

 an ever increasing fruit trade of honest 

 repute. 



Vancouver Island, B. C. 



F. Palmer 



Small fruits are almost over, although a 

 few loganberries are still being sold locally. 

 The crop of small fruits has been an excep- 

 tionally good one, due to the unusually late 

 rains. 



Sweet cherries are over. The sour cherry 

 crop is only medium, but the fruit is of ex- 

 ceptional size and quality. Nine-tenths of 

 the cherry crop is being shipped to the 

 north-west, through the Progress Fruit 

 Packing Co. This Company is doing very 

 good work and is securing from $3.00 to 

 $3.50 per 24 pound crate of cherries, for the 

 glowers. 



Plums and prunes give promise of a good 

 crop. Early plums, such as Clyman and 

 Peach plum, are being gathered now. The 

 prune crop is also to be handled by the 

 P. F. P. Co. 



Apples are light in most districts, due 

 to a dry fall last year ; consequently, the 

 trees did not have vitality enough to set 

 the fruit this spring Early apples such as 

 the Yellow Transparent and Duchess, are 

 already being sold locally. Pears give prom- 

 ise of being a record crop. The trees are 

 heavily loaded with fine, large fruit. Bart- 

 lett's are especially good. 



The hard winter, which did so much harm 



to the orchards on the mainland, did very 

 little harm here, due to the proximity of 

 the ocean. A good average fruit crop is 

 expected ; also, as fruit is so scarce on rhe 

 mainland, unusually high prices are assured. 



Similkameen Valley, B. C. 



J. D. Harkness 



Orchardists here await with much inter- 

 est the proposed action of the Department 

 of Agriculture in establishing an experi- 

 mental farm or a series of experimental 

 stations in British Columbia. Not only the 

 growers themselves, but the department 

 agent, who has been travelling through and 

 examining the fruit valleys, is of the 

 opinion that nothing short of a chain of 

 stations will adequately meet the needs. 

 It is found even now that BApert horticul- 

 turists from the coast or the Fraser Vall-y 

 who essay to address audiences in the in- 

 terior find themselves at sea and their 

 advice inapplicable, and vice versa. So rad- 

 ical are the differences of climate and other 

 conditions even within short distances that 

 it would be well to have at least half a doz- 

 en experimental stations, even if they were 

 small, rather than one or two large farms. 

 Also, a travelling instructor in irrigation 

 would be a very useful functionary. The 

 knowledge of most orchardists on the sub- 

 ject is very elementary, and their previous 

 experience nil. 



With the exception of peaches and tender 

 grapes, a fair crop of nearly every kind 

 of fruit is assured. The summer's growth 

 has served to show that the effects of last 

 winter's entirely abnormal cold were not 

 so great as was feared at first. Such a 

 winter had not occurred in a lifetime, iind 

 may not occur in another lifetime, but it has 

 served at least one useful purposse, in shon-- 

 ing what varieties are hardiest, and in show- 



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