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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
BRITISH COLUMBIA INVITES EASTERN NURSERYMEN 
TO PARTAKE OF ITS BEAUTIES WHEN ON 
THEIR TRIP TO PORTLAND 
Nurserymen through¬ 
out the Eastern and Cen¬ 
tral states who are con¬ 
templating attending the 
convention of the Amer¬ 
ican Association of Nur¬ 
serymen i n Portland, 
Oregon, next June, should 
not fail to include in their 
itinerary a trip through 
the fruit districts of 
British Columbia. 
This Western Province 
of Canada is a vast Em¬ 
pire of which most people 
know but little. When 
you consider that its area 
is 355,855 square miles it 
is extremely difficult to 
appreciate how large a 
Province it really is, until 
we compare it with states 
or provinces of which we 
are more or less familiar. 
The Province of British 
Columbia has an area 
greater than the states of 
New York, New Jersey, 
Pennsylvania, Virginia, 
West Virginia, North 
Carolina, South Carolina, 
Ohio Indiana, Vermont, 
New Hampshire, Con¬ 
necticut and Massachu¬ 
setts combined. Its pop¬ 
ulation of course, is not nearly so great, but according to 
statistics, it had in 1911 a population of 392,000 as com¬ 
pared with 178,000 in 1901. In other words, it has more 
than doubled its population in 10 years which certainly in¬ 
dicates something of the development that has been going on 
within the vast fertile Province in the last decade. 
British Columbia has a vast variety of resources, but 
naturally the fruit business is the one most interesting to 
nurserymen and there are a number of sections in the Province 
in which the fruit industry is carried on quite extensively and 
along modern lines, which would prove of special interest to 
Nurser\Tnen. The lo\Ver Eraser River Valley which is one of 
the oldest settled sections of the Province is a very fertile 
valley land in which are to be found many well kept orchards. 
It is, however, in the higher altitudes where commercial fruit 
growing has developed most extensively. 
The Okanogan district 
which lies tributary to 
the Okanogan Lake in the 
south central part of the 
Province is one that has 
already won wide distinc¬ 
tion in the production of 
peaches and apples. A 
little farther east is the 
Kootenay district, em¬ 
bracing the territory trib¬ 
utary to the Arrow, Slocan 
and Kootenay Lakes. 
This is an extensive dis¬ 
trict, reaching from the 
National Boundary on the 
south, to Revelestoke on 
the north and is a section 
worth while visiting. 
The territory along the 
Canadian Pacific through 
the upper Thompson River 
affords another section 
that is fast developing into 
horticultural prominence. 
In this section are such 
growing towns as Lytton, 
Ashcroft, Kamlcops, Sal¬ 
mon Arm and Sicamous. 
Separate from the main 
land by the strait of 
Georgia is Vancouver 
Island, where some of the 
finest fruit-land in the 
Province is to be found. 
Vancouver Island holds many points of interest for 
pleasure seekers and throughout the greater portion of the 
Province he will find the ever present evidence of his 
brother nurserymen. 
For the sightseer and tourist, British Coumblia abounds 
in material and there is no end to the points of interest one 
might visit or the variety of pleasure to partake of. Leaving 
Portland, the Convention City, and known throughout the 
world as the “City of Roses,’’ it is only a few hours ride by 
train to Seattle, where a steamer can be taken bound for 
either Victoria or Vancouver. A steamer ride on the placid 
Puget Sound with the snow capped mountains of the Olympic 
range on your left and those of the Cascade on your right, 
with the -shores only a short distance away, showing a 
mingling of fann and forest, and then crossing the breezy 
straight of Juan de’ Fuca, certainly is a trip anyone, and 
By A NURSERYMAN 
YOUNG PEAR TREE NEAR KENNEWICK. WASHINGTON 
