CHAPTER VI 
VARIETIES TO PLANT 
Apries.—At the present day there are far too many 
varieties of apples being grown in British Columbia. If 
you take up the schedule of prizes offered at any of the 
local fruit fairs in the province, you will find that the 
number of varieties of apples alone amounts to thirty, 
or even more, and there are a very large number of 
varieties for which no prizes are offered at all. Now, 
partly because of her wide geographical area, partly 
because of her comparative absence of large centres of 
population, and partly because of the fewness as yet of 
the population which she does possess, British Columbia 
must of necessity be an exporting country. If she is to 
be compelled to find markets for her fruit at a distance 
from her own borders, it is obviously the true commercial 
policy to grow the fruit and the varieties which will 
travel best, and go farthest without injury. Manifestly, 
then, the apple is the fruit that must be grown. But 
for a sound and successful commercial export trade 
thirty to forty varieties of apples are distinctly too many 
to grow. It is altogether too much to expect the con- 
sumers of apples in so many parts of the world to make 
themselves sufficiently familiar with that number of 
different kinds of apples so as to appreciate properly their 
several merits and good qualities. 
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