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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



November, 1909 



NOTES FROM THE PROVINCES 



Victoria Exhibition 



F. Palmer 



The horticultural display at the Victoria 

 Agricultural Exhibition this year was not as 

 large as it has been in the past two or three 

 years. The fruit, however, was of much 

 better quality and exceptionally clean, 

 showing that the growers are beginning to 

 pay more attention to intelligent spraying, 

 pruning, cutivating, etc. 



The chief feature of the fruit exhibit was 

 the restriction in the number of varieties 

 to be shown in the commercial exhibits. 

 This, it is presumed, is to encourage the 

 growers to go in for fewer varieties and to 

 grow more of those varieties. The plate ex- 

 hibits on the other hand, have had a tend- 

 ency to create a desire to grow too many 

 varieties to be of commercial use. Every 

 year sees more classes of commercial exhi- 

 bits and fewer plate fruit, as the agricul- 

 tural association is awarding a large list 

 of valuable prizes to promote interest in 

 commercial lines. 



The weak point in the exhibits is the lack 

 of color, noticed more especiallv in the win- 

 ter varieties of apples. This lack of color 

 is undoubtedly due to the unusually lat« 

 and cool summer. 



Errington and Cantwell, of Saanich, 

 won the banner prize of the season, a 

 silver cup and $20 for the best commer- 

 cial display of fruit. This cup was won 

 in 1907 by R. M. Palmer & Son, Rockside 

 Orchard, and in 1908 by Thos A. BrydoTi. 



The floral exhibits were excellent. Though 



the exhibit was not as large as that of last 

 year, yet the quality of the flowers display- 

 ed was, if anything, superior. Sweet peas. 

 were especially good, being clean and at- 

 tractive, while many of the annuals showed 

 up well. 



The vegetable exhibit was also very good 

 though it was also much smaller than usual 

 and of much better quality. Two notable 

 exhibits in the vegetable line, were the col- 

 lections shown by Sooke district, and Mr. 

 Grant, of Royal Oak. These displays were 

 excellent, in fact all the vegetable, flower 

 and fruit exhibits spoke well for the pro- 

 vince. The superior quality of all the ex- 

 hibits goes to show that the farmers and 

 fruit growers are becoming more educated, 

 and are employing more up-to-date methods 

 in their work. 



The Okanagan Fruit Union, as a result 

 of a recent visit to the Coast by Messrs. 

 Ricardo and Agur, have succeeded in se- 

 curing the capital necessary to construct 

 a series of frost iiroof packing houses in 

 Vernon, Okanagan Landing and various 

 points down the lake. Construction will 

 be started almost immediately, says the 

 Vernon News and the building in Vernon 

 is to be a two-story structure with a 

 basement, costing about $10,000. A cold 

 storage warehou.se will also be erected, eith- 

 er at Okanagan or in Vernon, and every 

 facility will be afforded for the handling 

 and storing of fruit. By the time the 

 next season's operations commence the Un- 

 ion will be equipped in a manner that will 

 enable them to do business on a scale never 

 before attempted in this province, and the 

 Okanagan will po.ssess facilities for hand- 

 ling the fruit crop that cannot fail to be of 

 great advantage to all concerned. 



Okanagan Valley, B. C. 



At a meeting of the Vernon Board of 

 Trade last month, a resolution was passed 

 asking the Minister of Agriculture for Brit- 

 isih Columbia to appoint a representative 

 from the Okanagan Valley to accompany 

 the exhibit of fruit from that district to 

 the Royal Horticultural Show in England. 



On receipt of the resolution the Minister 

 of Agriculture replied that he was unable 

 to arrange for this, as the plans in this 

 connection already had been jierfected. 

 This matter will still be kept in view and 

 pressed upon the Government for recogni- 

 tion next year. 



Prince Edward Island 



J. A. Moore 



The provincial exhibition was a grand 

 success as far as attendance and live stock 

 exhibits were concerned. As our season is 

 late this year and the show somewhat early, 

 fruit and vegetables were not as good as in 

 some former years. The late varieties of 

 apples lacked size and color, and it was evi- 

 dent that there were not nearly as many 

 exhibitors of fruit as last year. 



In early apples there were large entries 

 of Yellow Transparent, William.s' Favor- 

 ite, Red Astrachan and Duchess. We can 

 grow these varieties to perfection. Tn au- 

 tumn apples we grow most excellently. Weal- 

 thy, Alexandra, Wolf River and Graven- 

 stein, although the last mentioned does bet^ 

 ter top-grafted than on its own stock. 



For winter, we have several variofies that 



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