1. Tree Fruits 



Among what are commonly classed as the tree fruits are the apple, cherry, peach, 

 pear, plum, and quince. 



So confident are the Ontario fruit growers of the future of the industry and the 

 continued profits which will be obtained from the culture of these large fruits, that 

 many acres of trees are being set out annually. 



The great importance of the fruit interests may be fairly judged by the following 

 figures for Ontario from the Dominion census of 1911: 



THE APPLE 



There is no part of the world where better apples are grown than in the Province 

 of Ontario, and owing to the hardiness of this fruit it can be successfully cultivated 

 over a very large part of the Province. 



Prom the Ottawa River, which bounds the Province on the east, to the great lakes 

 on the west, a distance of about 500 miles, and from the St. Lawrence River and great 

 lakes on the south to latitude 45 degrees, and even 46 degrees, on the north, a distance 

 of about 280 miles, there are many flourishing commercial apple orchards. But apple- 

 growing is not confined even to this area, for scattered here and there over the newer 

 parts of Ontario almost up to the Manitoba boundary are trees which are bearing good 

 apples and supplying the settler with fruit for home consumption. 



Owing to the material difference in climatic conditions between the extreme southern 

 and the northern parts of the Province, some varieties of apples are more adapted to 

 certain sections than others, not only on account of their varying degrees of hardiness, 

 but because some kinds produce better fruit in certain sections than in others. Further- 

 more, as apples grown in the southern parts of the Province do not keep as well as 

 those grown in the northern sections, the fruit matures earlier, and hence does not 

 come into keen competition with, perhaps, the same varieties from other sources. Each 

 part of the Province, therefore, where apples are grown can produce fruit which has 

 a fair chance of commanding the highest price on the market. As these climatic con- 

 ditions cannot be changed, it behoves fruit growers in the south-western peninsula to 

 make a specialty of growing fruit for the early markets, for there is no other section 

 which can compete so favorably in the production and sale of early apples, especially 

 for the rapidly growing market in the Northwest. 



The fruit growers in the districts bordering on Lake Huron, Lake Ontario and the 

 St. Lawrence River, where the longest keeping apples of best quality are grown, should 

 make a specialty of winter fruit, and by so doing win for themselves a reputation for 

 this class of apples. 



