July, 1908 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



159 



British Columbia Inspection 



Editor, The Canadian Horticulturist: 

 lu reference to "Okanagan" in your May 

 issue, I may say it is immaterial to me 

 whether the government has one inspection 

 station or a dozen. It is for the government 

 officials to say, not me. Possibly it would 

 be better for the fruit grower to have one 

 in every little town, and again it might be 

 better for the fruit consumer to have neither 

 duty nor inspection on fruit as they could 

 'then buy it for half the present prices— 

 30 cents a basket for strawberries, which 

 are selling at retail, in Los Angeles, Cal., 

 for 3 boxes for 10 cents, other fruits in pro- 

 portion. Personally, I cannot, nor do I in- 

 tend to try and compete with cheap nursery 

 stock grown by negro help in Alabama and 

 Tennessee, nor the Mexican and Italian help 

 in California, nor even cheap eastern labor. 



M. J. Henry, Vancouver, B. C. 



Similkamccn Valley, B.C. 



I'jxcept that it is about two weeks later 

 iin usual, the present has been an ideal 

 ason for fruit in the Similkameen. The 

 ling was long and cool, thus preventing 

 aanger from frost to early blossoms— though 

 L' as a matter of fact, there was no frost. 



No damage was done during the winter 

 I her, and with the most favorable con- 

 aitions ever since, and no signs of posts, 

 f the yield of every kind of fruit will be up 

 to the standard both in quantity and qual- 

 ity. Strawberries and cherries came on 

 lUe market in quantities about the middle 

 ! June, and other fruits are coming on 

 i|)idly. 



Kootcnay Valley, B.C. 



H. W. Power. 



(lie directors of the Nelson Agricultural 

 I Industrial Association are preparing for 

 ir annual fall fair, September next. 

 ,ocal strawberries were on the market 

 the middle of June and a few days later 

 were being exported. The bulk of Kootenay 

 berries are as yet grown at Creston, Craw- 

 ford Bay, along the west arm of Kootenay 

 Lake and at Kaslo. Other sections. are go- 

 ing in for strawberry growing as with care 

 and businesslike methods, a few acres of 

 Kootenay land planted thus produce a tidy 

 income. Reports of from $500 to $1,000 net 

 the acre are not uncommon. The Koot^ 

 nay berry finds a ready market in the 

 Northwest and Manitoba, the closest market 

 outside of the local one. 

 The cherry crop this year will be an un- 

 ually heavy one. Cherry trees around 

 lotenay Lake thrive wonderfully and bear 

 ieediugly heavy year after year. The 

 it grows to a marvellous size and has a 

 licious flavor, finding a ready market 



at top notch prices wherever offered for 

 sale. An unusually large number of cher- 

 ry trees .were set out throughout the dis- 

 trict this spring and more will be planted in 

 the fall. Royal Anne appears to be the 

 favourite for local growers. 



In May, the Kaslo District Harticul- 

 tural and Fruit Growers' Association receiv- 

 ed from Victoria a silver Banksian medal, 

 awarded that body at the Royal Horticul- 

 tural Societies' Exhibition last winter in 

 London, being for an exhibit of apples, prin- 

 cipally Gravensteins, in the production of 

 which the Kaslo section excels. Nelson 

 Agricultural and Industrial Association also 

 received a silver medal for an exhibit of 

 Grimes Golden and Cox's Orange Pippin. 

 These were among the highest awards, a 

 number of other medals going to British 

 Columbia. 



The Dominion Express Company has ma- 

 terially reduced rates on British Columbia 

 fruit as far east as Winnipeg and are plac- 

 ing an iced car service on the Crows' Nest 

 branch for the benefit of Kootenay fruit 

 men. 



The directors of the Kaslo District Horti- 

 cultural and Fruit Growers' Association 

 are negotiating with the Great Northern 

 Railway, owners of Block 12, an extremely 

 desirable piece of ground, centrally located 

 in the city of Kaslo, with a view of acquir- 

 irig it for exhibition purposes. This has 

 hitherto been used exclusively as a recrea- 

 tion ground and it is proposed to erect 

 buildings for the annual fall fair and put 

 a race track thereon. 



Nelson sent -an exhibit of early fruits and 

 other Kootenay products to the Dominion 

 Exhibition at Calgary, held on July 1st and 

 succeeding dates. 



Annapolis Valley News 



R. J. Mestenger 



For the early fruit, the weather during 

 pollination was not favorable if, as some 

 authorities claim, fertilization takes place 

 during the first part of the bloom, for 

 cold rains and east winds marked the 

 first few days of early bloom. For the later 

 varieties, however, the weather was ideal. 

 The general impression now is that apples 

 have set well and as we are getting lots of 

 moist weather there is every indication of a 

 good crop. 



In insect pests we have quite a develop- 

 ment of the canker worm. Some orchards 

 have been neglected till they are almost 

 stripped of foliage. Very few brown-tails 

 have been seen, but it is very probable that 

 these have been the cause in part of a more 

 general spraying than ever before. It is un- 

 fortunate, however, that many of those who 

 do spray do it in a half hearted manner and 

 when other farm work permits. 



As an insecticide the arsenitc of soda 



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