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AMERICAN POMOLOGICAE SOCIETY 
to take the leading part in judging the First Canadian Apple Show, which 
was held in Vancouver, and my friend Prof. Sears was one of my assistants 
in that work, and I feel sure he can bear me out in saying that a more 
magnificent apple show could hardly be shown anywhere in the United 
States than in Vancouver, and the finest car of apples I believe was grown on 
Lake Kanagan in British Columbia. It is a wonderful region. Of course 
from the Wenatchee country up through the northern parts of Washington, 
three or four hundred miles across the country, there is a magnificent fruit 
section. 
President Goodman: Professor Sears, how about your experience; you 
live up there in the northern part of the United States? 
Professor Sears: I lived ten years in Nova Scotia and can say I am 
satisfied that Canada is a mighty good place to live. But I will talk about 
Massachusetts now, since I know most about it at the present time. The 
situation in Massachusetts is like that in every other fruit country, at the 
present time; everybody is interested in orcharding. I never saw such a 
time as we are now having in Massachusetts. We started six years agoj to 
try to arouse interest in orcharding, and now there is not a restaurant man, 
hotel man, lawyer, doctor, or retired minister that does not want to take up 
orcharding. In New England generally, perhaps Massachusetts especially,, 
there is tremendous interest in orcharding. I think in a general way we are 
getting the principles down to a pretty go£>d practice. Most of our people 
have gone in for the legitimate varieties; not many of them have set the 
Wolf River so far as I know. The Baldwin is the best variety that we grow; 
the McIntosh is probably the next most popular, but I do not believe, take 
it one year with another, it will stand with the Baldwin as a profitable crop. 
The Hubbardston, R. I. Greening, Wagener, and Gravenstein are among our 
best commercial varieties. Of peaches we grow Greensboro, Carman, 
Belle, Champion and Elberta. While we cannot always compete with our 
Connecticut brother we still do a mighty good business. We get abofut three 
crops out of five, and that is good money at the prices we get. 
Mr. Smith (B. C.): I have spent two seasons with the department of 
agriculture of British Columbia, and there are a few facts of interest that I 
might bring to you from my acquaintance with that far-off region where 
fruit growing occupies much of the interest of the farming people. One 
thing that has impressed me very forcibly is, that in going into a new region 
to make plans, the fruit grower must be very careful in choosing varieties 
that are suitable to his region; because there have been those who did not 
know and as a result a great many growers have set out various varieties — so 
that many orchards are now producing, not two or three main commercial 
varieties, but eight or ten, or even a dozen. This makes the marketing of 
the product difficult. 
Beware of your nurserymen, for they are prone to grow many varieties, 
and substitution is too frequent. In British Columbia the main region, the 
Kanagan section, has some twelve thousand acres of apple trees and the 
fruit from these, of course, finds a ready market in the Provinces, as Prof. 
Macoun has stated to you. So that pomology in the Far Northwest, in 
British Columbia in particular, has a very firm foundation. 
