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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



Floral Edition. 



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proud of their College. He said that the 

 best apples at the World's Fair at San 

 Francisco were the Canadian Fameuse ap- 

 ples, and that the best Fameuse had been 

 supplied by the Oka Agricultural Institute. 

 Mr. Johnson encouraged the students to con- 

 tinue their work in order to stimulate the 

 development of the fruit Industry in thin 

 country. 



Annapolis Valley 



Eunice Buchanan, Berwick, N.S. 



A few miles of barren bog separates the 

 apple centre of Berwick from the cranberry 

 districts of Aylesford and Auburn, where 

 the crop, with the exception of about a car- 

 load, has been shipped chiefly to Montreal 

 and then to other points in upper Canada 

 and the prairies. This year's yield of cran- 

 berrie.s has been about six thousand bar- 

 rels; the fruit is of excellent quality, hav- 

 ing been free from pests and diseases, and 

 consequently is keeping well. 



This year the Auburn growers are receiv- 

 ing $4.50 to $4.75 per barrel; by the carload 

 the price Is around $5.00. If It had not 

 been for careless packing in the past, the 

 grower should now be receiving one dollar 

 more a barrel; dealers give more for Cape 

 Cod cranberries because of the reliable 

 pack and a standard barrel. Cape Cod bar- 

 rels hold 95 quarts, whereas many of onr 

 barrels hold only 80 to 85 quarts. 



A slight frost in August injured some of 

 the cranberries, but where the bogs were 

 well sanded they were not hurt until the 

 frost of September 25, but most of the crop 

 was gathered by that date. 



One to two cents a quart is paid for pick- 

 ing the berries by hand, but the progres- 

 sive growers use scoops, which reduces the 

 time and frost risk, also the cost of picking 

 to about 40c per barrel. The fruit is put 

 into bushel crates made of lath, with solid 

 ends, where, when placed in the cellar, they 

 keep much better than in barrels. 



The varieties of cramberries grown in 

 Nova Scotia are determined by their shape, 

 namely, cherry, olive, bugle and bell. A 

 well kept bog will yield from 50 to 75 bar- 

 rels per acre, but a neglected bog will not 

 grow more than 10 to 20 barrels. 



There are vast tracts of bog yielding 

 nothing more profitable than blueberries, 

 but it costs from $75 to $100 per acre to 

 cut off the top growth or turf, then from 

 $40 to $60 more to spread a layer of sand 

 over it, and finally a few more dollars, the 

 least part of the expense, to plant the vines. 



The apple crop in the Auburn district is 

 about 50 per cent, of a full crop; much of 

 the fruit is deformed and spotted. The 

 market for apples is reported from $2.00 to 

 $2.50 and more; this Information comes 

 from a buyer, but there seems to be little 

 real knowledge with regard to prices. Pri- 

 vate shippers are satisfied with their re- 

 turns, even if the freights are high. Wages 

 in England have never been so high as at 

 present, and for this reason fruit should be 

 in good demand. 



The weather has been mild and much 

 plowing has been done; also it is becoming 

 the fashion to plant apple trees in the fall, 

 a few hundred having been planted in this 

 vicinity. 



The present year has not been a favor- 

 able one for vegetable growers in Ontario. 

 Speaking at the recent Lambton County 

 Horticultural Exhibition, the provincial 

 vegetable specialist, Mr. Johnson, of To- 

 ronto, said that the continued wet weather 

 from July 1 to the end of August caused 

 considerable losses in many part of the 

 province. Also there had been more insects 

 which damage vegetables than had been 

 known in the past twenty-five years. 



