1HE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



plant with confidence of profitable em- 

 ployment. 



Equally with our own country, the 

 writer was struck with the large number 

 of barren trees and orchards through the 

 fruit counties on a recent visit to Hali- 

 ax ; and in some cases of young orchards 

 where the trees are planted in sod, with 

 no subsequent cultivation. Fruit can- 



not in these degenerate days be so 

 grown ; in young orchards the soil must 

 be cultivated and made as near like gar- 

 den soil as possible, while in old trees the 

 superfluous wood must be removed. 

 Often three-quarters of the crowding 

 branches taken off would result in a 

 fruitful tree, where now is only barren- 

 ness. 



BIG APPLE CROPS IN NOVA SCOTIA. 



'-T ^OENTVILLE Advertiser gives 



Y\\ the following idea of the big 

 \\ apple crops being harvested 

 in King's County. 



The fertile and pleasantly situated 

 tract of King's County called Starr's 

 Point has always been noted for its pro- 

 ductiveness. Large crops of potatoes 

 have always been raised there, and 

 interest was taken in horticulture many 

 years ago by members of the Starr 

 family and also by Mr. Prescott. This 

 year Providence has smiled upon this 

 favored section and large root and grain 

 crops and well laden apple trees are the 

 result. 



The orchard of Mr. A. C. Starr will 

 produce the largest quantity this year — 

 about 2000 barrels. He has eleven 

 acres in full bearing, five acres more 

 twenty years old, which has not come 

 into full bearing before, on account of 

 being top grafted. Mr. Starr also has 

 twenty-seven acres of young orchard 

 growing nicely and another strip of 

 land will soon be cleared and set out 

 which will make a block of fifty acres 

 altogether. 



It requires a great deal of care to look 

 after this large orchard, but the owner is 

 equal to it, and besides has raised this 

 year twenty-seven acres of potatoes. 

 The crop is heavy on most all of this 

 acreage, and fully six thousand bushels 

 of potatoes will be the result. 



It is seldom that one sees such fine 

 fruit. Gravensteins, Blenheims, North- 

 ern Spys and Fallawaters, were a full 

 crop and of excellent size and color. 



Mr. J. E. Starr on the farm adjoining 

 has a good crop of all kinds this year. 

 His orchard will produce fifteen hundred 

 barrels this year, nearly double that of 

 last year. The trees are very thrifty 

 and the quality of his fruit excellent. 

 Gravensteins were a fine crop and Kings 

 were very large and well colored. Some 

 of the largest Baldwins ever seen could 

 be found in this orchard. Mr. Starr 

 and his son George are packing ten 

 barrels of choice fruit for the Paris 

 Exposition. The fruit will go to Mon- 

 treal and remain in cold storage there 

 until next spring, and then be shipped 

 to Paris. Mr. A. C. Starr will also send 

 five barrels all packed like oranges. 



There are three other farms in this 

 vicinity which will produce about one 

 thousand barrels of apples. They are 

 Richard Starr, 1200 ; Percy Starr, 1000 ; 

 and Joseph Starr, 900 bbls. We thus 

 find that in five Starr families, all living 

 as neighbors, about six thousand six 

 hundred barrels of apples will be raised. 

 With the price of apples ranging from 

 $2 to $3 per barrel, our readers can 

 realize from the product of this small 

 section we have referred to, the amount 

 of money that will reach King's County 

 this year for fruit. 



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