CHAPTER XX. 



Some Results. 



When the attention of a man in England or 

 Scotland is seriously arrested by the highly favour- 

 able accounts he hears of fruit growing in British 

 Columbia, he naturally begins to make inquiries. 

 The information he gleans will be similar to that 

 which I have repeated in Chapters III. and IV. If he 

 is able to do so, he will make it his business to 

 go to Westminster and see for himself the kind of 

 fruit which British Columbia sends every autumn to 

 the Colonial Fruit Exhibition organised by the Royal 

 Horticultural Society of England. One visit will be 

 sufificient to convince him, no matter how sceptical 

 he may be, as to the superior qualities of that fruit, 

 that it is, indeed, entitled to rank among the finest 

 in the world. 



When he gets out to British Columbia, and is taken 

 to see a mountain slope, irregular in contour, thickly 

 studded with big trees, beneath which creep tangled 

 thickets of bushes and scrub, and observes, it may be, 

 the big boulders scattered here and there over the 

 surface, and is told that that is the land on which he 

 will have to plant his orchard, it is not a matter 

 for surprise if he should be incredulous — for a time — 



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