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confined almost exclusively to winter 
apples. 
Another significant feature that must 
be taken into account in future apple re- 
ports is that planting is being done quite 
freely in District No. 3. The number of 
young trees under 10 years old probably 
equals the present plantings. Conse- 
quently, each succeeding year there will 
be a large addition to the aggregate of 
the crop coming from District No. 8 as 
the result of new orchards coming into 
bearing. There will be a tendency, there- 
fore, to underestimate the crop from this 
district on this account. 
District No. 4—This district has a large 
quantity of apples of the Fameuse and 
Wealthy type. The climate is too severe 
for the standard winter varieties grown 
in Ontario. The varieties, such as the 
McIntosh Red, Wealthy, Wolfe River and 
a number of other hardy varieties, are 
all fall and early winter apples. In esti- 
mating the apple crop, therefore, consid- 
eration must be given to this fact, that 
a large crop of apples in District No. 4 
will materially affect the market only 
during the fall and early winter months, 
and even in such cases the apples grown 
in this district are more desirable for 
dessert purposes than for cooking pur- 
poses. They, therefore, occupy a special 
position in the market. 
District No. 5 has comparatively few 
trees. The quantity of fruit raised here 
is not enough for home consumption, so 
that it need searcely be taken into con- 
sideration in an estimate of the crop for 
commercial purposes. This district in- 
cludes New Brunswick. The possibilities 
of orcharding in the St. John valley are 
so great that there is a probability in the 
future of having to make a separate divi- 
sion of this part of District No. 5 to se- 
cure greater accuracy in the estimate. 
District No. 6 is an exceedingly impor- 
tant one in apple production. It includes 
the four counties of Hants, Kings, Anna- 
polis and Digby in Nova Scotia. It would 
be quite possible, considering the high 
state of cultivation in which a large 
number of the orchards are kept, to have 
699 
a surplus of 500,000 or 600,000 barrels for 
export. 
It will be readily seen that this is a 
very important fruit district in estimat- 
ing the marketable crop for any particular 
year. The Gravenstein forms the largest 
bulk of their earliest shipments. This 
variety, however, is being less planted, 
and the district is becoming more and 
more confined to the winter shipping va- 
rieties. The Blenheim Orange type ap- 
pears to flourish here better than the 
varieties so successful in Districts Nos. 1, 
2 and 3. These are extremely popular in 
the English market, and, therefore, are 
always likely to be in good demand. 
District No. 7 embraces the rest of Nova 
Scotia not included in District No. 6. A 
few isolated and protected valleys, par- 
ticularly in the counties of Lunenburg 
and Digby, are demonstrating their capa- 
city for growing fruit in commercial quan- 
tities; but as a whole it may be said that 
there is not enough winter fruit grown 
for home consumption, nor is there suffi- 
cient quantity to affect appreciably any 
results obtained from the other divisions, 
District No. 8 includes Prince Edward 
island. There is a small quantity of 
early fruit grown here for export, which 
may increase somewhat in the near fu- 
ture, but is not enough at present to 
appreciably affect the market. This dis- 
trict still imports winter fruit for home 
consumption. 
District No. 9 includes the valley of 
the Fraser from Lytton southward, the 
lower coast line and the Island of Van- 
couver in British Columbia. This is a 
mild and moist climate, favorable to fruit 
growing, which is carried on under very 
different conditions from those prevailing 
in District No. 10. 
District No. 10 includes the interior 
valleys of British Columbia, which have 
a comparatively dry, warm climate. Irri- 
gation is required in many of these val- 
leys, and it is, therefore, desirable that 
they should be grouped together, inas- 
much as, though they differ among them- 
selves slightly, yet, for commercial pur- 
poses, the fruit is similar. 
