INSTRUCTION AND ADVICE 77 
or plan that is calculated to further the progress of the 
calling. It is not altogether a mere figure of speech to 
say that, if the rancher only takes advantage of all the 
opportunities which the Provincial Government. places 
in his way, he can obtain a fairly comprehensive 
horticultural education in the course of a single year. 
ProvincraL Horticutturists.—In each of the more 
important districts into which the province is divided 
for horticultural purposes the Board of Agriculture has 
stationed a trained and expert horticulturist. His duties 
are to lecture on subjects connected with orchards ; to give 
practical demonstrations in the open air of planting, 
pruning, spraying, and so forth ; to act as judge at local 
fruit shows ; to manage the demonstration orchards (vide 
below) ; and to advise generally on all matters connected 
with horticulture in his district—both advise the growers 
as to how they shall conduct their operations and assist the 
Board of Agriculture by furnishing it with information. 
The number of these officers is being gradually added to 
as the area under orchards extends. At the moment of 
writing there are six of them, stationed respectively at 
Nelson, Grand Forks, Vernon, Kamloops, and Vancouver 
Island, with a general horticulturist at headquarters in 
Victoria. 
LEecTURES AND DEMONSTRATIONS.—Every winter and 
very frequently in other seasons as well the horticulturists 
and other experts give lectures at quite a large number 
of centres on such subjects as soils, orchard management, 
planting, pruning, spraying, manures, poultry, and so 
on. From time to time distinguished professors of horti- 
culture and fruit-growers of mark from Eastern Canada 
