1897] Fruit Growing in Canada. 91 



Most powerful among the factors which have assisted the 

 development of fruit growing in Canada, are those organizations 

 known as Association's of Fruit Growers. Nova Scotia, New 

 Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia, and, lately, 

 Prince Edward Island, have each a provincial organization com- 

 posed of the best men. It is to the credit of the several pro- 

 vincial governments that the good work of these societies is in 

 the main wisely assisted. In the volumes of the reports of these 

 societies are chronicled the histories of provincial fruit develop- 

 ment. The progress of less than a century has been marvellous. 

 The trend of the age in fruit growing as in other industries is 

 towards specialism. The fruit grower is yielding to the impulse- 

 We are now growing fruits especially for canning, for home use, 

 for keeping, and for carrying. We are finding the areas best 

 adapted to the production of particular varieties and profiting by 

 this experience. Lastly, we are uniting science with practice in 

 studying principles and in applying methods which will produce 

 better fruit than heretofore at less cost, thus ministering to the 

 wants of the poor, as well as to the rich, and by so doing adding 

 the wealth to of our land and increasing the sum total of 

 human happiness. 



The President (Mr. Shutt) in conveying the thanks of the 

 Club to the lecturer, said that the intensely interesting and in- 

 structive lecture that they had, had, the pleasure of listening to was 

 one that might well serve as a type of those most useful ad- 

 dresses which treat of the practical or economical, as well as the 

 more strictly scientific aspect, of the subject. There was prob- 

 ably no one in Canada, he said, who by reason of his official 

 position and the wide experience which it afforded, was so able 

 as Mr. Craig to impart reliable information regarding fruit 

 culture in the various parts of the Dominion. 



They were especially honoured, the President remarked, by 



