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Annals of Horticulture. 



lowing geography of the fruit-growing regions of Canada is 

 part of a paper by A. M. Smith upon "Progress of Fruit-cul- 

 ture in Canada" before the Western New York Horticultural 

 Society, 1891 : 



" Now take a map of Ontario and begin at its eastern boun- 

 dary and follow up the St. Lawrence river — whose shores are 

 famous for its Snow, St. Lawrence, Pomme Grise, Macintosh 

 Red and other hardy apples — to Kingston ; and then take the 

 north shore of Lake Ontario — not forgetting to trace around 

 the Bay of Quinte, where lies Prince Edward county, the 

 home of the apple — on up to Hamilton, around Burlington 

 bay; then down the south shore of Ontario to the Niagara 

 river ; up the river to Lake Erie ; then up the north shore of 

 that lake to Detroit river, taking in the Niagara peninsula — 

 famous for all kinds of fruit — and the counties of Essex and 

 Kent, which will soon be equally famous; thence up the river 

 and Lake St. Clair shore to Huron ; around the south and 

 eastern shores of that lake and Georgian Bay ; through the 

 counties of Lambton, Huron, Grey, Bruce and Simcoe — all 

 in CanadY note( ^ f° r their long-keeping apples — and you have traversed 

 a shore-line of over 1,000 miles in length adapted to apple- 

 culture. Allowing this belt to be ten miles wide, and one- 

 tenth of it in suitable condition for orchard-planting, you 

 have 1,000 square miles, or 640,000 acres, which, with the 

 shores of small lakes and rivers in the interior, where apples 

 grow in abundance, could be easily swelled to over a million 

 acres of the best apple-land in the world. Nor is all the apple- 

 country of Canada confined to Ontario. Nova Scotia, par- 

 ticularly the Annapolis valley, has thousands of acres already 

 in this fruit, and thousands more which might be utilized. 

 The quality of the apples grown there, particularly the Gra- 

 venstein, have a world-wide reputation. Many sections of 

 Quebec, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick are also 

 adapted to the apple. British Columbia, on the Pacific coast, 

 is opening up with great prospects as a fruit-country — apples 

 pears, plums and cherries being produced in abundance, and 

 in some sections grapes and peaches. The majority of the 

 area of apple-land that I have described in Ontario is equally 

 adapted to plum-culture, and about one-half of it to pears and 

 cherries; and some two or three hundred miles along the shores 

 of Lakes Erie and Ontario to grapes. Quite a belt on the 



