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Canadians and many people on the American side of the border with a liberal 
supply of this fruit Pears, plums, cherries, and in some favored districts 
apricots can be grown in large quantities and the area over which the s^nall 
fruits, such a currants, gooseberries, raspberries and strawberries, can be 
grown, is almost unlimited. 
Historical:— -Fruit has been cultivated in Canada since the early part of 
the 17th century when the French settlers in Acadia, now the Province of 
Nova Scotia, and also the settlers along the banks of the St. Lawrence in 
the present Province of Quebec, brought with them seeds and trees from 
France and planted them. It has, however, been only during the past fifty 
or sixty years that fruit has been grown to any large extent for commercial 
purposes. 
Kinds of Fruit Grown in Canada: — The kinds of fruit grown in Canada 
for sale are apples, pears, plums, cherries, peaches, apricots, girapes, cur- 
rants, gooseberries, raspberries, blackberries, loganberries, strawberries and 
cranberries. There is also a large sale of blueberries and huckleberries 
which are picked from plants in the wild state. 
Fruit Districts of Canada: — There is a very large area in Canada suited 
to the growing of fruit. Apples are grown to the largest extent in the 
Provinces of Ontario, Nova Scotia, Quebec, and British Columbia, but apples 
grow well in the Provinces of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. 
The largest number of bearing apple trees is in the Province of Ontario 
where in 1910 there were 6,544,788 trees and 2,053,302 more trees not yet 
bearing. In the prairie Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta 
tree fruits are not grown except to a limited extent in the most favorable 
locations where some apples, crab apples and plums are produced. The 
commercial culture of the pear is confined mainly to the Provinces of Ontario 
and British Columbia though pears succeed well in Nova Scotia and the 
hardiest varieties can he grown in Quebec, New Brunswick and Prince 
Edward Island. The most favorable climatic conditions for plums are in 
Ontario, Nova Scotia and British Columbia; but, certain varieties of the 
Domestica plums can be grown in Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick 
and Quebec. The native plums Prunus nigra and Prunus americana are 
grown successfully in the colder parts of Canada and the early varieties 
succeed in the prairie provinces. Ontario produces the largest quantity of 
cherries and they have been planted to a considerable extent in British 
Columbia but they are grown successfully also in Nova Scotia, Prince Ed- 
ward Island and to a limited extent in favored parts of the Province of 
Quebec. Peaches are grown commercially only in the southwestern part 
of the Province of Ontario and in British Columbia but they can he success- 
fully grown also in the warmer parts of Nova Scotia. The commercial 
culture of grapes is at present confined to southwestern Ontario but they 
can he ripened also in all the other provinces of Canada with the excep- 
tion of the prairies where only the very earliest will ripen and then only 
when grown in the most favourable locations and protected in winter. 
Blackberries are grown mainly in Ontario and British Columbia and the 
culture of loganberries is confined to the warmer parts of British Columbia. 
But currants, gooseberries, raspberries and strawberries are grown in all 
the provinces. 
