December, 1915. 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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Niagara District Notes 



F. G. H. Patlison, Winona 



THE past month in this district has been 

 characterized by fine mild weather. 

 Up to the night of the 16th no frost 

 had occurred in the western portion to do 

 any real damage. On the nights of the 16th, 

 17th and 18th sharp frosts took place, but 

 since then the weather has remained mild. 

 On the 19th heavy rain fell, which proved a 

 great boon to both fruit growers and farm- 

 ers, enabling them to get their fall plowing 

 properly done. Previous to that many had 

 ceased plowing, owing to the hardness of 

 the land, especially where it had been 

 tramped on by horses during the summer. 



East of St. Catharines, and in the neigh- 

 borhood of old Niagara, fruit and vegetable 

 growers have not had a very favorable 

 year. Peaches and blackberries were a 

 good crop, but their chief market, Toronto, 

 was glutted most of the season, and prices 

 were very low. Strawberries were rather 

 a short crop. Apples and pears were very 

 light; potatoes a failure. Except along the 

 lake shore and along a portion of the Ni- 

 agara River, most of the grapes were 

 frozen in May, and yielded little or nothing. 



The accommodation at the old Niagara 

 wharf was insufficient. Many times fruit 

 shippers had to wait hours and hours to 

 get their stuff on board the boat. This was 

 partly owing to the large amount of freight 

 coming in for the soldiers, but the arrange- 

 ments made by the steamboat company for 

 handling this freight and the fruit seem to 

 have been utterly lacking in system. In- 

 stead of having one place to drive in and 

 unload fruit, and another place to take away 

 freight, they had the whole thing mixed up. 

 This caused much delay and waste of time 

 for the fruit growers. 



Fruit shipping is now done for the season, 

 few apples even being left, except in cellars, 

 where some still remain to be packed. On 

 the whole, the apple crop west of St. Cath- 

 arines in the Niagara and surrounding dis- 

 trict has been atout as good as anywhere 

 in Ontario this season. Lately there has 

 been a keen demand for apples, especially 

 Spies, at very remunerative prices. Even 

 No. 3's have sold well. 



Around Winona and Grimsby fruit grow- 

 ers have not done so badly. Peaches did 

 fairly well, also plums. Currants, apples 

 and grapes were a great help, all selling for 

 good prices. The fruit growers in this sec- 

 tion have reaped considerable benefit from 

 the action of Sir George Foster, who se- 

 cured large orders for the jam factories at 

 both Winona and Hamilton. In conse- 

 quence of this, they were enabled to pur- 

 chase large quantities of black currants, 

 plums, peaches and apples at prices fairly 

 remunerative to the growers. The Winona 

 jam factory alone purchased in the neigh- 

 borhood of forty-five thousand baskets of 

 plums. 



The grape season was well prolonged, 

 owing to the absence of frost, and the 

 growers had a good chance to get the crop 

 off without being frozen. Prices were good, 

 but the crop was not heavy, and a large 

 percentage of red grapes were never picked, 

 owing to mildew. 



Keiffer pears were a fair crop and sold 

 well, as they generally do when the apple 

 crop is light. 



The executive of the Niagara Peninsula 

 Fruit Growers' Association met recently in 

 St. Catharines to finish up the season's 

 business. The chief item of business was 

 winding up the accounts of the advertising 

 committee. As all the collections were not 

 yet completed, the executive adjourned to 

 meet once more. 



It is generally felt that the advertising 

 campaign conducted this season has been 



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