92 The Commercial Apple Industry 



those in the region north of Lake Ontario, and orcharding 

 is carried on as a special industry, but in the greater part 

 of western Ontario the apple orchard is usually a side 'line/ 

 to general fanning, and consequently the same attention is 

 not given to the details of spraying, pruning, cultivating, 

 packing and marketing as in the districts where apple- 

 growing is the main industry. In the aggregate, however, 

 the crop of western Ontario has a very marked influence on 

 the commercial production of the province. The leading 

 varieties are the Spy, Baldwin, King, Greening, Ben 

 Davis and other standard sorts but as the distance from 

 Lake Huron and Georgian Bay increases, the earlier and 

 hardier varieties are more in evidence. 



British Columbia. 



The apple industry in this province is comparatively 

 new, but has developed rapidly and along highly specialized 

 lines, so that it is now a considerable factor in the market- 

 able crop of Canada. The Dominion Census of 1901 

 credited British Columbia with 220,000 bearing and 170,-/ 

 960 non-bearing apple trees, while in 1911 the figures were 

 510,763 bearing and 1,465,622 non-bearing trees ; and the 

 increase in the last nine years has probably been fully 50 

 per cent. Following is a statement of the commercial pro- 

 duction for the years 1911 to 1919 inclusive: 



Table VI. — Production of Apples m British Columbia 



Year. Boxes. 



1911 » 225,100 



1912 386,640 



, 1913 456,380 



1914 615,600 



1915 993,060 



1916 1,376,310 



