August, 1908 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



175 



mental trees is doing well, and has induced 



j_inany other persons to plant. Fruit can be 



jTOwn in the MacLeod district, but the 



bushes and trees require some shelter 



from the winds. I would like to learn the 



Kperience of others in g-rowing fruits 



liroug-h the columns of The Canadian 



lORTICULTURIST. 



Manitoba 



D. W. Bnchanan 



This is rather an off year for some fruits. 

 Plums did not set well owing to cold rain, 

 jnd plum pocket has been bad, reducing the 

 crop to 20 per cent, of last year. The apple 

 Crop will be 25. per cent, of last year. Straw- 

 ' berries are fair. Currants set a large crop, 

 but the currant fruit worm has been verv 

 destructive, reducing the crop one-half in 

 many cases. 



Raspberries look promising and, with 

 favorable weather, will give a good crop. 

 Vegetables are yielding a fine crop on well- 

 drained land, but there has been too much 

 rain for low ground. 



Winnipeg 



George Batho 



The prospects for the fruit crop in Mani- 

 toba are not above the average. Mr. Steven- 

 son, the pioneer apple grower at Morden, 

 reports only a small crop, this being a year 

 of only light bloom. Plums have suffered a 

 good deal from plum-pocket, and small 

 fruits are, for the most part,bearing only 

 moderately. 



The beautiful weather of the early spring, 

 followed by the heavy rains of June, which 



prevailed throughout the entire stretch of 

 the prairie provinces, have combined to 

 make this a most favorable year for the 

 planting and growth of forest and shade 

 trees. This means a good deal to this coun- 

 try, as there are now being so many new 

 windbreaks and plantations set out by farm- 

 ers in our open prairie districts. 



Arrangements are being carried forward 

 for a Provincial Horticultural Exhibition, 

 to be held in Winnipeg, under the joint aus- 

 pices of the Western Horticultural Society 

 and the Winnipeg Florists' Association. The 

 dates have not been definitely set at time of 

 writing, but it is quite likely that the show 

 will occur during the first week of September. 

 A committee of management has been ap- 

 pointed with F. W. Brodrick, professor in 

 horticulture at the Manitoba Agricultural 

 College, Winnipeg, at its head as secretary- 

 treasurer and manager of the exhibition. 

 This will be the first provincial horticultur- 

 al exhibition in about six years, although 

 as long ago as that a series of two or three 

 good annual shows were held by the West- 

 ern Horticultural Society. The trouble was 

 that at the last show the financial basis was 

 bad, and the weather proving unfavorable, 

 a heavy deficit was experienced. A beter fi- 

 nancial arrangement now exists, and the 

 chances are good for a first class show. For 

 years the local horticultural society at Bran- 

 don has held a most creditable exhibition in 

 that city. 



The second annual convention of the 

 Western Canada Irrigation Association will 

 be held in Vernon, B. C. during the week 

 beginning Monday, Aug. 10. For further 

 information and program, write to the sec- 

 retary, W. R. Megaw, Vernon. 



Montreal 



£. H. Wartmaa, Dominion Fruit Inspector 



Fruit is selling well in Montreal. On 

 June 27th, the first lot of ripe apples came 

 to hand from Tennessee, red and green in 

 color and of good size. The red variety in 

 tenderness, like our astrachans, showed 

 signs of decay ; the green, more like our short 

 stems, were in good order. 



On July 6th, our Montreal auction room 

 presented a very pretty scene; 15 cars of 

 various kinds of fruits were on exhibition 

 on the ground floor— bananas, melons, 

 peaches, plums, apricots, lemons, oranges, 

 pines and tomatoes— about 200 crates opened 

 up so as to show ripeness, color and size. 

 At 9:15 a. m., about 150 buyers assembled in 

 the auction room to bid on six cars of Cali- 

 fornia fruits, packed by Earl Fruit Co., 

 Producer's Fruit Co.^ and Stewart Fruit Co. 

 One characteristic of the sale was the strict 

 attention of buyers and rapid bidding, auc- 

 tioneer J. J. Callaghan quoting bids in 

 French and English and passing from one 

 kind to another in rapid succesion. The 

 whole six cars or over 6000 packages were 

 knocked off in one hour and thirty minutes 

 and invoices made out, aggregating $8000. 

 Mr. J. J. Callaghan as a fruit auctioneer 

 is not excelled in America. The fifteen cars 

 would aggregate about $12000. 



The district between Montreal and Ste. 

 Anne-de-Bellevue, the extreme west end of 

 Island, a distance of 20 miles bids fair for 

 an average crop of fall and early winter ap- 

 ples, and common red sour cherries have 

 been a good crop and retailed at 35 cents a 

 gallon. The large setting of fruit trees on 

 Macdonald Farm are doing well; the older 

 ones are apparently full of fruit. 



PLANT IN THE FALL 



And you will obtain the best results. 

 Our pamphlet on Fall Planting shows 



why. PELHAM'S HANDSOME 

 FALL CATALOGUE is just out. 

 Write for it. It is worth having. 

 We grow Fruit Trees, Ornamental 

 Trees, Bushes, Roses, Herbaceous 

 Plants, Etc. 



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