CANADA 
ceeds best in the most southern parts of 
the Province, the commercial vineyards 
being confined almost entirely to the 
Niagara peninsula, and to the district 
bordering Lake Erie. The grape can, 
however, be grown successfully over a 
much wider area than this, and where 
the summer temperature is fairly high 
and spring and early autumn frosts are 
rare, large quantities of grapes are grown 
for home consumption. Hence the early 
varieties of this fruit may be ripened 
pretty generally over the Province as 
far north as latitude 45 degrees and prob- 
ably further. 
Varieties Recommended 
General List Approved by the Board of 
Control 
COMMERCIAL AND DoMESTIC-— 
Briack-——Moore, Campbell, Worden, Con- 
cord, Wilder. 
Rep—Delaware, Lindley, Agawam, Ver- 
gennes. 
Wuite——Niagara, Diamond. 
For NorTHERN S£EcTIONS— 
Buack—-Champion, Moore, 
Worden, Wilder. 
Rrep-——Moyer, Brighton, Delaware, Lind- 
ley. 
Wuite—Winchell, Diamond. 
Campbell, 
District Lists Recommended by the 
Experimenters 
Wentworth District 
M. PEerrit 
Winona, Ont, 
CoMMERCIAL— 
BriacK—~-Champion, Campbell, Worden, 
Concord. 
Rep—Delaware, Lindley, Agawam, Ver- 
gennes, Catawaba. 
Wuite—Niagara, Diamond. 
Niagara District 
LINUS WOOLVERTON 
Grimsby, Ont. 
Domerstic—Moyer, Campbell, Worden, 
Delaware, Lindley, Brighton, Wilder, Aga- 
wam, Requa. 
BUSH FRUITS 
In Bush Fruits are included the Black- 
berry, Currant, Gooseberry, and Rasp- 
711 
berry. These fruits, while not being of 
quite so much importance from a com- 
mercial standpoint as the tree fruits, are 
grown and consumed in very large quan- 
tities in Ontario, and as they are used 
in many ways by housekeepers there will 
always be a demand for them. They can 
be grown between the tree fruits to ad- 
vantage while the latter are young and 
hence often augment the revenue of the 
fruit grower materially before the tree 
fruits come into full bearing. 
Some idea of the large quantities of 
bush fruits which are grown will be ob- 
tained from the Dominion census statis- 
tics for 1901, where it is stated that there 
were at that time 8,116 acres devoted to 
small fruits in Ontario, on which were 
produced about 16,000,000 quarts valued 
at $811,000.00. The strawberry is includ- 
ed in the above estimate. The present 
area devoted to small fruits is estimated 
at 10,000 acres. 
THE BLACKBERRY 
The blackberry is not grown so large- 
ly in Ontario as it might be. It is one of 
the most profitable fruits to grow where 
it succeeds well, but as the crop is rather 
uncertain except in Southern Ontario and 
in localities farther north where it is 
protected by a deep snow fall, its range 
of successful culture is somewhat limit- 
ed. Where there is not danger of winter 
killing, a well drained clay loam is prob- 
ably the best for the blackberry, as it is 
cooler and more retentive of moisture 
than lighter soils. The blackberry must 
have plenty of soil moisture when the 
fruit is ripening, otherwise but little of 
the crop will develop. Further north, 
where hardiness is of greater considera- 
tion than conservation of moisture, the 
poorer and warmer soils are preferred, 
as the blackberry on these soils does not 
make as rampant a growth and hence 
ripens its wood better. 
Varieties Recommended 
General List Approved by the Board of 
Control 
Agawam, Snyder, Eldorado, and for 
southern sections, Kittatinny. 
