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reported upon each year by those in 
charge of the stations. As these experi- 
menters were all practical fruit growers, 
and in most cases had made a specialty 
of some kind of fruit, much valuable in- 
formation regarding varieties and their 
culture was accumulated by the depart- 
ment of agriculture. 
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 
Tree Fruits 
Among what are commonly classed as 
the tree fruits are the apple, cherry, 
peach, pear, plum and quince. 
The importance of the fruit interests 
may be fairly judged by the following fie- 
ures for Ontario from the Dominion cen- 
sus of 1901: 
Not Bearing Bearing Total Trees Bushels Value Acres | Capital Value 
Apple Trees.... ... 1,989,983 7,551,636 9,541,619 13,631, 264 $3,407,815 | 228,018 $34,201,950 
Peach Trees....... 470,772 811,725 1,282,497 539 ,482 539,482 
Pear Trees......... 280,175 564,798 844,973 487,759 365, 819| 
38 , 002 11,400,600 
Plum Trees....... 686, 628 999,091 1,685,719 337,108 so sal 
Cherry Trees...... 237,792 446,556 684,348 132,177 297,398 
Total. ........ 3,665,350 10,373,806 14,089,156 15,127,790 45,602,550 
There has been a marked increase in 
the number of acres planted since the 
1901 census was taken, the total number 
of apple trees, according to the last re- 
port of the Ontario Bureau of Industries, 
being 10,201,766. 
THE APPLE 
From the Ottawa river, which bounds 
the Province on the east, to the Great 
Lakes on the west, a distance of about 
500 miles, and from the St. Lawrence 
river and Great Lakes on the south to 
latitude 45 degrees, and even 46 degrees, 
on the north, a distance of about 280 
miles, there are many flourishing com- 
mercial apple orchards. These produce 
annually an average crop of about 35,000,- 
000 bushels of fruit. But apple growing 
is not confined even to this area, for 
scattered here and there over the newer 
parts of Ontario almost up to the Mani- 
toba boundary are trees which are bear- 
ing good apples and supplying the settler 
with fruit for home consumption. 
Owing to the material difference in cli- 
matic conditions between the extreme 
southern and the northern parts of the 
Province, some varieties of apples are 
more adapted to certain sections than 
others, not only on account of their vary- 
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ing degrees of hardiness, but because 
some kinds produce better fruit in cer- 
tain sections than in others. Further- 
more, as apples grown in the southern 
parts of the Province do not keep as well 
as those grown in the northern sections, 
the fruit matures earlier, and hence does 
not come into keen competition with, 
perhaps, the same varieties from other 
SOUrCES. Each part of the Province, 
therefore, where apples are grown can 
produce fruit which has a fair chance of 
commanding the highest price on the 
market. As these climatic conditions 
cannot be changed, it behooves fruit 
growers in the southwestern peninsula to 
make a specialty of growing fruit for the 
early markets, for there is no other sec- 
tion which can compete so favorably in 
the production and sale of early apples, 
especially for the rapidly growing market 
in the Northwest. 
Varieties Recommended 
General Lists—After testing a large 
number of varieties of fruit at the vari- 
ous fruit stations, the board of control 
has decided upon the following as the 
most desirable for general planting. 
District Lists—The district lists given 
by the various experimenters show vari- 
