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 NEW BRUNSWICK. 



The Province of New Brunswick, while not generally considered as being 

 particularly adapted for the production of the more tender fruits of the temperate 

 zone, has large areas of excellent land well suited for the successful growth of 

 such of the more hardy fruits as succeed in similar latitudes. Owing to climatic 

 conditions and the fertile nature of the soil these fruits reach an excellence and 

 quality here that cannot be secured in many localities where milder conditions 

 prevail. 



EARLY EFFORTS AT FRUITGROWING IN NEW BRUNSWICK. 



The growing of apples has been carried on for many years in fact ever 

 since the first settlers located on the banks of the beautiful St. John River, and 

 planted the seeds of the apple in their small clearings. Slowly and gradually 

 the industry has progressed until at the present time it is becoming an important 

 factor in the agricultural activities of this Province. 



FRANCIS PEABODY SHARP. 



New Brunswick w r as fortunate in those earlier days in having not only 

 inhabitants who had been accustomed to fruitgrowing in their former homes, 

 but also among their number men whose names will go down in the History of 

 Canadian Horticulture as wise, painstaking and successful pioneers. Notable 

 among this class was the late Francis Peabody Sharp of Woodstock, who early 

 began a series of extended operations which had for their object the production 

 of a variety of fruits which might prove hardy and of value in his adopted home 

 country. That he was eminently successful is testified to by the general esteem 

 in which Mr. Sharp is held, not only in his own Province but also in the adjoining 

 Provinces of Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. While many of Mr. 

 Sharp's ideas and plans have not survived the onward march of progress in 

 advanced Horticulture, yet it must be recognized that in those early days he 

 rendered a service to his own Province and to Canada of enormous value from 

 a horticultural standpoint. 



DEMONSTRATIVE ORCHARDS. 



In this Province at the present time a most active campaign is in progress 

 in connection with the adoption of approved methods of orchard culture and 

 the extension of the orchard area. Mr. W. W. Hubbard, Secretary of Agri- 

 culture, himself an enthusiastic fruitgrower, ably assisted by A. G. Turney, 

 B.S.A., who has lately been appointed Provincial Horticulturist, has undertaken 

 a very comprehensive movement in the way of selecting and establishing educa- 

 tional centres in the various districts where orcharding is likely to prove successful 

 from a commercial standpoint. These so-called Demonstration Orchards are 

 attracting public attention to a very marked degree, and the results are being 

 carefully watched by neighbouring fruitgrowers. The beneficial effects of proper 

 treatment are very much in evidence in every orchard of this kind visited by 

 the writer. This work can have only one result, which will be the arousal of 

 a spirit of enthusiasm and the adoption of similar practices by the fruitgrowers 

 of these localities, in order that they too, may secure more satisfactory returns 

 from their orchards. 



GOOD FRUIT LAND VERY CHEAP. 



The area of young orchards is increasing very rapidly and there is no doubt, 

 from the interest that is manifested, that it will not be many years before apples 

 will be a considerable factor in the exports of this Province. There is a very 



