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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



August, 1907 



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NOTES FROM THi: PROVINCES 



Dy our Regular Correspondents and OtKers 





Quebec 



Auguste.Dupuis, Director, Fruit Stations 



I have received the following note from Messrs. 

 Ston^ & WelHngton; "We were pleased to see 

 your article in the June numter of The Cana- 

 dian Horticulturist, and we agree with you 

 in regard to the damage to the fruit trade that 

 is done by irresponsible nursery concerns in 

 selling such tender varieties as King, Baldwin, 

 and so on, in the northern districts of Quebec. 

 We have always taken particular pains with 

 our agents in the province of Quebec, allowing 

 them to sell only such varieties of stock as have 

 been proved iron-clad and hardy, and which 

 will stand the severe winters. We well know 

 that a number of people in Quebec have been 

 humbugged and have lost considerable money 

 by planting tender kinds. The first thing we 

 do in starting a new agent in your province is 

 to instruct him on the hardy varieties. We, 

 however, want to be up-to-date, and if you can 

 supply us with any bulletins or reports from 

 your experimental stations we will be pleased 

 to receive them." 



If all nurserymen would follow principle 

 outlined in the foregoing letter, the fruit industry 

 in the districts of Quebec would prosper and the 

 demands for stock would increase to the mutual 

 benefit of nurserymen and fruit growers. 



The losses have been so great in the eastern 

 part of Quebec by the planting of tender vari- 

 eties in worn out and unprepared soil that the 



Quebec Pomological Society has suggested to 

 the government the Hcensing of tree agents, 

 who would have to pass an examination to prove 

 their comiietency in fruit cuhure and in guiding 

 the planters in the right direction, instead of the 

 wrong system of encouraging them to plant 

 in poor soil trees raised in rich nursery soil. 

 Without manuring, without protection either 

 natural or artificial, extensive , plantations 

 made in Montmagny and other counties have 

 come to nothing. The general verdict of 

 farmers on these failures is that trees sold now 

 are not so strong as those planted by their 

 ancestors (in virgin soil). It is to be hoped that 

 the nursery concerns advertising in The Cana- 

 dian Horticulturist will employ in our cold 

 districts only honest agents to whom plate 

 books will be given illustrating only good and 

 recognized hardy varieties of fruits. 



SasKatcHe-wan Climate 



G. T. Barley, Prince Albert 

 After a careful comparison of the weather con- 

 ditions and climate in Ontario, with various dis- 

 tricts in the west, I have come to the conclusion 

 that that portion of land that lies between the 

 two Saskatchewan rivers is the most suitable 

 for fruit and tree planting for the following 

 reasons- The soil is a rich, black loam; the 

 land is rolUng and well timbered with native 

 trees; there is an abundance of rain during the 

 growing season ; high winds, so prevalent in other 

 quarters, are absent. 



I have spent over 20 years in this country 

 and have observed climatic and other conditions 

 carefully. We hope to grow many kinds and 

 varieties of fruits, ornamental trees and shrubs 

 that it is now thought will not do well. 



British Columbia 



C. p. Metcalfe, Hammond 

 Strawberries are about over, and raspberrii 

 will soon be. Prospects for other kinds of fruit 

 are about the same as last month. Fruit trees 

 as the season advances show considerable injui 

 from last winter's frost, and entail extra ca: 

 in the way of cultivation and thinning if the 

 are to mature a fair crop of fruit without taxiu 

 the trees too severely. 



In a year of this kind, thinning is of especial 

 value in that it lessens the drain on the vitality 

 of the tree, and encourages the formation of fruit 

 buds for another season. No exact rule can be 

 laid down-, as methods of thinning vary in the 

 different varieties of fruit and in different trees 

 in the same variety. Some varieties bear every 

 year and have to be thinned very severely if the 

 crop of fruit buds for another season and the 

 general growth of the trees are not to be checked. 

 Others again which bear only biennially may be 

 allowed to carry quite a load, as they will have 

 the off year to recuperate. 



There are many other things to be taken into 

 consideration in thinning apples, as the size, 

 color, flavor, and keeping qualities are all 

 materially affected. Another important factor is 

 the increase in the percentage of No. 1 fruit and 

 the decrease in No. 2 and culls. 



Prince Ed-ward Island 



Fruit meetings were held in Prince Edward 

 Island in July. The Island is handicapped for 

 manufactures, and many branches of farming. 

 Not so with apple growing, which can be followed 



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