THE PROS AND CONS 15 
tion of the trees, the planting and training of them, and 
the laying out of the orchard, as tasks of so pleasurable 
a nature that they would on no account have them done 
by anybody but themselves. And superadded to this 
plea of the creative instincts there exist weighty reasons 
on the commercial side why the man who can afford the 
necessary capital, as well as the time to wait, should plant 
his orchard himself, and as a horticulturist grow up along 
with his trees. 
Almost without exception, the older orchards through- 
out British Columbia contain a great number of varieties. 
Instances are not unknown where on 10 acres there are 
twenty varieties of apples alone, to say nothing of other 
kinds of fruit, or on 20 acres as many as thirty or approach- 
ing forty varieties. Now, for a purely local market it is 
an advantage to have a well-chosen succession of both 
apples and other fruits. But British Columbia as a fruit- 
growing region has now passed beyond the stage of a 
mere producer for local markets. She grows now to 
supply (as far as she is able to do so) markets on the 
prairies of the Dominion, markets in Britain, markets in 
Germany, Sweden, -and Holland, markets in Australia 
and New Zealand, and markets are even calling to her 
from South Africa, China, and Japan. If this wide- 
spread demand, distant as well as eager, is to be properly 
met, apples must be grown of suitable varieties, of a 
suitable character, and in suitable quantities to enable 
the British Columbia grower to export them at a mini- 
mum cost. The grower whose orchard is large enough 
to allow him to export individually will naturally make 
a close study of the costs of production, and he who 
