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The Fruit Divisions of Canada 
To assist in estimating the marketable 
erop the fruit districts of the Dominion 
are divided as follows: 
District No. 1—Counties north of Lake 
Erie and Niagara district. 
District No. 2—Counties on Lake Huron 
and inland to York county. 
District No. 3—Counties bordering on 
Lake Ontario north to Sharbot lake and 
Georgian bay. 
District No. 4—Ottawa and St. Lawr- 
ence valleys to Lake St. Peter and South- 
western Quebec. 
District No. 5—New 
Northeastern Quebec. 
District No. 6—Hants, Kings, Annapolis 
and Digby counties, Nova Scotia. 
District No. 7—Nova Scotia not in- 
cluded in District 6. 
District No. 8—Prince Edward island. 
District No. 9—Lower mainland and 
islands, British Columbia. 
District No. 10—Inland valleys, British 
Columbia. 
Districts Nos. 1, 9 and 10 ship the com- 
mercial crop of peaches and other tender 
fruits. 
Districts Nos. 1, 2, 3, 6, 9 and 10 grow 
plums, pears and winter varieties of 
apples for long distance markets and ex- 
port. 
District No. 4 ships Wealthy, Fameuse, 
Alexander and McIntosh Red apples. 
Districts Nos. 5 and 7 will not produce 
sufficient winter fruit for home consump- 
tion. 
“F.,” “L.,” “M.,” and “F.C.,” which ap- 
pear below, are abbreviations of “Fail- 
ure,” “Light,” “Medium” and “Full 
Crop,” respectively, as used by our cor- 
respondents in their monthly crop re- 
ports. A combination such as “M.-F.-C.” 
means that about an equal number of 
correspondents reported “Medium” and 
“Full Crop.” 
Those who would get full value from 
the fruit crop reports, would do well to 
study closely the nature of the crop in 
each of these districts. 
Brunswick with 
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 
District No. 1—Grows a large quantity 
of apples of good size, fine color and ex- 
cellent quality. Their one defect is that 
frequently even the winter varieties ripen 
so early in the fall that they deteriorate 
very materially before the cold weather 
of the early winter sets in and, therefore, 
unless they are placed in cold storage as 
soon as they are matured they are apt to 
show a large amount of waste if any 
attempt is made to keep them during the 
winter months. The apples, therefore, in 
this district must, for the most part be 
regarded as fall and early winter vari- 
eties, unless cold storage facilities are 
provided to enable the holding of them 
for winter shipping stock. Consequently, 
if it should appear that there was a 
large crop in District No. 1, it would not 
materially affect the quantity of winter 
shipping apples, but would be counted in 
with the fall and early winter apples of 
the other districts. To this we might 
make the possible exception of such vari- 
eties as the Ben Davis, Stark and similar 
varieties that are very little grown in 
this district. 
District No. 2—Grows excellent winter 
apples. It is far enough north, or the 
elevation above the sea level is such, that 
the winter varieties like the Greening, 
Baldwin, Spy and Russet, ripen just as 
the early winter sets in; consequently, 
these varieties may be picked and stored 
with advantage, as winter shipping apples 
in ordinary storage. 
A very marked peculiarity of the dis- 
trict is that orchards, though numerous, 
are small. The district is a very large 
one and apples can be grown to perfec- 
tion in any part of it; but the farmers 
are engaged, for the most part, in mixed 
farming. 
At three or four points selling associa- 
tions have been formed, and wherever 
these have been organized apple growing 
is exceedingly profitable. 
District No. 3—Grows an equally good 
quality of winter apples; but the orchards 
are larger and the fruit growers are tak- 
ing better care of them. Pruning, spray- 
ing and cultivating are common. The 
varieties planted are fewer in number and 
