LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Northern Spy Apple Tree, 5 years old . . Frontispiece 



FACING PAGE 



A Family Group at Welland Ranch 1 



C. P. R. Transcontinental Train 5 



Sleighing in Winter 8 



Kicking Horse River, Rocky Mountains .... 12 



Cox's Orange Pippin, 2 years old 16 



A Successful Orchard amongst the Stones, near Nelson 17 



A Single Strawberry Plant, Kootenay District . . 24 



Potato Crop on newly broken Ground, Arrow Lake 32 



An Okanagan Peach Orchard 37 



Frame House, Bonnington Falls Ranch \ ^n 

 Buildings, Bonnington Falls Ranch • J ' ' " 



Upper and Lower Bonnington Falls 44 



First Digging of New Ground, Bonnington Falls Ranch . 49 



A Big Stump Split by a Dynamite Charge \ 



A Logging Scene 



Leslie and the Calf 



Fishing in the Pool below Bonnington Falls, Kootenay 



River 76 



An Orchard Scene, West Arm of Kootenay Lake . . 81 

 On the Top of the Kootenay Mountains in Winter ") 



William and Arthur Just Returned from their > 88 



Mountain Climb ....... j 



Cherry Trees in Bloom on Welland Ranch, West Arm 



of Kootenay Lake ........ 96 



A Kootenay Lake Steamboat 101 



Fruit Ranch, West Arm of Kootenay Lake . . . 108 

 View of Kootenay Lake in Winter from Welland) 



Ranch V 117 



Building Greenhouses in the Snow . . . . j 



Young Orchard on West Arm of Kootenay Lake . . 124 



Tobogganing : A Spill 129 



Exhibition Fruit 144 



Fruit packed ready for shipment 149 



Young Apple Orchard, Kootenay ..... 156 



Ground for a Fruit Ranch, partly cleared, Kootenay District 161 



Spraying a Fruit Tree 168 



Pear Tree 176 



Young Cherry Tree in Bloom, Welland Ranch . . . 181 



A Kootenay Orchard Home 188 



