414 



The Canadian Horticulture. 



Windsor and Annapolis Railway, which intersects the Valley from beginning to 

 end. 



The last census indicates that, notwithstanding all these natural advantages, 

 there has been in reality a decrease in the population of the Valley. It is 

 situated so near to the United States, and the means of access are so numerous, 

 that there is an overwhelming tendency, on the part of the young people, to go 

 to Boston and vicinity rather than to remain and take care of the farms The 

 result is a scarcity of farm labor, and a development less pronounced than could 

 be desired. It is undoubtedly one of the sections of the Dominion that would 

 profit enormously by free trade relations with the United States, and with its 

 great resources — natural beauties, and numerous advantages as a place of 

 residence, and with a soil and climate so favored by nature — there can scarcely 

 be a doubt that in the course of time, with proper energy and enterprise on the 

 part of its people, it will be the happy home of very many thousands of prosper- 

 ous and progressive people. 



Fn;. 401. —Apple Picking, Annapolis Vallly. 



