84 The Ottawa Naturalist. [July 



New Brunswick. — The climate of this province favours a 

 mixed husbandry. Wild raspberries, strawberries, blueberries 

 and cranberries grow in profusion and have to some extent 

 hindered their cultivation. Apples may be grown successfully 

 for home use in nearly all parts. Large commercial orchards 

 are in bearing and others are being planted in the valley of the St. 

 John River. The fruit harvest is later than in Nova Scotia. New 

 Brunswickersare,therefore, enabled to place their berries upon the 

 Boston market at a time when competition from other quarters is 

 light in these classes of fruits. Bright minds are at work in the 

 province. What to grow and how to grow it are questions 

 receiving earnest attention. 



Quebec. — ^The climatic conditions in Eastern Quebec ap- 

 proach quite closely those obtaining in many parts of New Bruns- 

 wick We find the principal fruit areas lying along the south 

 side of that great artery of commerce, the St. Lawrence River. 

 Here and there, not on the low clay flats, but on the higher 

 middle elevations with gravelly subsoil affording natural drain- 

 age, we find orchards made up of the La Belle, Fameuse, Pomme 

 Grise and St. Laurent — truly Canadian and truly delicious 

 apples. It seems to be a principle in plant growth, especially in 

 apple development, that the farther north a given variety may 

 be grown to successful fruitage, the finer in quality will be the 

 pioduct. So it is with our Canadian Spys, Fameuse, Gravenstein 

 and King — and what of our North-west and No. i hard wheat ? 



In L'Lslet county, about 70 miles north-east of the city of 

 Quebec, plum growing has become a specialized industry, during 

 its gradual evolution covering a period of 100 or more years. The 

 Reine Claude de Montmorency is delicious and peculiar to the 

 region. The Damson plum trees grow in stocky form and pro- 

 duce all out of prodortion to their size. The Kentish cherry has 

 through heredity developed hardy forms well adapted to its new 

 home and ripens its fruit a month later than the same variety 

 p-rown at Ottawa. 



