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PAPER ON THE STATUS OF FRUIT CULTURE IN WESTERN PRINCE COUNTY Reap By REv. A. E. BURKkE AT PROF. CRAIG'S MEETING, JANUARY S1ist, 1896.

Mr. Chairman, Professor

Craig, Ladies and Gentlemen : Yielding to the written

request of the learned professor | of horticulture who is abeut to address us. 1 have at very short notice, and unskilled as is my hand in such matters, prepared this imperfect paper en the “Status of Fruit Culture in Western Prince County”, 80 that he may at the outset have some little idea ofthe progress orcharding has made amongst |t us and thus embrace the best means of speaking directly to our meeds. And, first, 1 must admit that in this science 1 am ne specialist. 1ndeed, 1 regret to say it, 1 knew of no one in this section of the province whe coul with propriety be called a skilled orchardist or pomologist. We are here to Prince Edward Island what Western Ontario is to the older and more flourishing portions of the peninsula; what Wes- tern Canada is tothe Eastern Provinces ; what the Western States are to New England. As universal settlement then has been later with us, and as we have been pretty generally cut off from the centres whence scientific ideas in agricul- ture and itssubordinate science horticulture emanate, orchard- ing has come in asa genera: practice only within late years—as the sale by agents of fruit trees became more gene- ral The early settlers were too much occupied with the rude and arduous task of cut- ting down and clearing the forest to devote mu:h time to what was then and must still be considered minor projets. True, had first trees becu plan- ted, had they been available to our pioneer farmers, as they blazed and cut down and reoted out the forest a great step forward would have been made; for such plantations would now con- stitute matured orchards. But this too called for proper con- ditions to ensure success.

1—The soil should be suita- ble.

2—The trees should be of the r'ght kind and quality.

3—Proper care should be ta- ken of them in and after plan- ting.

Let us examine those cardi- nal points in their turn. First, 1 think almost every one wall hold with me that our soil is well suited for pomoeulture, perhaps much more so than any other portion of the pro- vince since here to a greater extent than elsewhere in Prin- ce Edward Island are found great numbers of those granite boulders which haye come to us on the bosom of the great glacier during the ice period of the world's history. Those rocks 1 need not stop to say have addeû valuable inorganic matter to our soil which has to be artificially indroduced in the middle and eastern portions of the province and those inorga- | nic elements are of the greatest value for fruit culture. Bnt they are not equaily distribu- ted even here. We have soils varying all the way from the heavy loam whi:h makes Ma- |

nitoba so fertile to the sand bank which only by introduc- | tion of heavy supplies of ma-| nure and an extra share of ma- ter can be turned to anything. I thivk, however, that in this Western Prince County we

have a greater proportion of

good clay and sandy Joam land

to our acreag ? found East of us. Now it will

…

| been secured and it is onr de- sire to be instructel as to the Re of engrafting

be

than can

be Professor Craig's duty to show us how best we can a- dapt this varied and varying elass of soils to the proper and successful growth of fruit. While we can point with pride! de to some fairly sucesssful or- chards upon the sandy ioams of the Riding and while 1 may add incidentally, our exhibi- tion of fruits in the elasses shown, for the past iwe years, |\ campared more than favorably

mies of the fruit tree, even if es latter discourse should ead ou? Jesined instructor into ss territory of entomelogy, the particular ground of Prof. Fletcher. With regard to the se suitable for ! this locality, e may mention Crabs (of all kinde) Alexanders, N. B. or

with those of either the county Duchess . SRE, en dE inter ellow lransparen or general exhibitions, 1 must winter, y À Fameuse and Glen with.

say frankly that the section of

black loam lands, like a portion | S0mMe others.

of Palmer Road settlement sé Thirdly—The care of fruit! the beavy clay loams of Lo: 7, have so far been unsuccesfully tested as fruit raising sections.

it will be pleasing from the learned professor then | Lof commonplace that with the

how our own good orchards majority of our people little or may be bettered nl how suc: | no care has been taken of the! cesfully to grow on kinds of! tree. In many cases the pros-| soil 1 have just spoken of and, pective orchard has not even

which according io popular be- lief are refractory valuable fruit trees. Of course the situa- tion of the land too must he ta- ken into Consideration. Large portions of Lot 7 runs along tho

fessor Craig will necessarily ‘touch upon. Here then 1 will!

oi mice in deep snow and ha- res above the crust, sheep, pigs, cows, horses and geese have barked, browsed and broken the trees at their pleasure— Straits of Northvmberland to Stillthe whole province has the west of us and it isclaimed | lately—thanks to the untiring

by the seitlers there that the efforts of our morthy governor | —pbecome arouscd to the value

salt mist from the straits js

good | te.”

sions on bad trumks, as to the renovation of old orchar@s and | as to the dsstruction ot the e-

- |trees in and after planting Pro-

only say to conclude this paper | , to. hear! ? | première fois depuis neuf ans,

| Mme Spears à pu embrasser son enfant, après avoir dépensé

been fenced round the attack |

L'IMPARTIAL

les lignes indiquées par l’ar- ticle de la “Pall Mall Gazet-

Manchester, N. H., 24— Mme Marion Spears. de Chiraze, est arrivée en cette ville lundi, et lelle y a rencontré sa fille, qui | lui avait été enlevée il ÿ a neuf ans.

Cette petite fille, qui a main- |tenant 9 ans, est fort jolie. : Elle avait été enlevée à sa mère à Augusta, Maine, en 1883, pen- a que ceile-ci était mala- |C' est nne dame Frank Ricker qui vola l'enfant. Cette: femme en avait eu soin, et ella s'était prise d'un amour incommen- surable pour la petite fille.

Pendant la maladie de la mère. elle disparnt avec l’en- fant, et aujourd’hui pour Ja

: des milliers de dollars en re- ‘cherches.

La police avait aussi recher- ché l'enfant, sans saccès. Fina- lement, ja femme Rickær la laissa chez un fermier, aux en- virons de C'oncord, N. H. Le fermier, au bout de quelque temps, conduisait l'enfant dans une institution de cette ville où le détective O’ Dowd l'a dé- couverte,

La scène a été vraiment poi-

obtained in Eden wrhen mother Eve pledked the unlucky fruit | ble- and gaveitto her ther Adain would never

‘be an easy prey to black

deadly to the apple tree least. This is also averred of) Tignish, a greatly exposed sec-| tion of the Province with a! good sprucelined break which! can with a littie care be grown, everywhere. 1 feel sure fruit! trees can be grown succesfully even in these places.

But fruit culture is a very general term, and claiming for West Prince many advantages in this regard it is not conten-

ded tha- those sorts of fruits to!

which added climate is hurtful can be grown here. We have raised good apples pears, plums, cherries and about all the small fruits—grapes cannot be matured and ripened out of doors in our short season. Secondly- As to the best kinds of fruits to grow in this country much information is ueeded. The first trees planted here as in all new countries were either engrafted seedlings or suckers from somebod’s else

at [of the fruit industry, and as

gnante quand la mère a rencon tré sn enfant après une si longue séparation.

you, Prof Craig, have now come among us with ihis new gospel as Professor Saunders, Chapais and Robertson came: with that of butter and cheese, | |it is more than likely—Indeed

it 1s pretty sure—that we will listen attentively to its lessons, St. Louis les noces d'argent de

[D ecome converted and live, M. Rosimond Bernard et sa da- more generally en Min me Emélie Caissie. Un bon nom | bre de personnes s'étaient rendu |chez M. Bernard pour l'ocuca- sion et la fête fut des plus agré- | bles. Au nombre des invités on |remarquait M. J- B. Gandet et sa Dame, M. Napoléon Pineau et sa dame, M. Jean Poirier et plusieurs personnes de Tignish Un magnifique pot à fleurs fut | présenté à M. et Mme Bernard par Mme. J. B. ET

NOCES D'ARGENT

Le 14 janvier avait lieu à

fruit.

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Londres, 24—O0On mande de Coustantinople qu’une aliance oflensire et défensive vient! d'être conclue entre la Russie et la Turquie. La ‘“Pall Mall! Gazette” dit que le traité a été, signé à Constantinople et que! les ratifications en ont éte é- changées à St-Pétersbourg, en- tre Aarej Pasha et le sultan. ce 6 Fev, 1806 | Un Abonné

Les bases du traité sont, dit- | on, sur les mêmes lignes que l’arrangenent conclu en 1833. à Unkiarkelessi, par lequel la Turquie s'engageait de fermer

DUVAR ROAD

MM. les Rédacteurs.

orchard. 1t is claimed that the. first cherry trees (and in cher- | ry trees we are well stocked)| were brought out from En- gland by Capt. Hill, after whom Hills River is named. The Keufles, Weeks, Gordons, Hardys, Ramsays and many | others indeed the whole West! —-enjoy cherries io-day from off trees derived from this scurce. And despite all the matter to the contrary we read in scien- tific papers, 1 am able to say that those inbred cherry trees | produce up to the present mu:h better fruit than that procurable from the dearly boughten imported article. 1u the same way we procured most of our Old apple trees — unerrable landmarks with wide spreading branches like the umbrageons beech to hide the yeuthful thief in a profusion of sweet smelling blossoms in spring and a splendid crop of what were generally termed| “pig-squealers” in the fall. Ve-| riiy 1 believe if such had been)

Fa-| have | infected us with the dire re- sults of his fondness for apples.

mate,

| Later the imported article has

been planted—nicely labelled and named it is true, but not always true to name and often so weakly in constitution as to knot bark lice, and every other ene- my of the species. À proportion

of good trees 'OoWever

sance. La “Pail Mall Gazette” _'ques jours était retenu à la joute que l’on abandonna aus- $, | maison BURN PRRNTRN rime,

| SAncCes

ment contre un traité sembla-

grave nor sé _ Ci suit L nus - ournaux anglais, et un tel

bas prouve que la Turquie! Daudy Benn Pres is

œ sompris son impu’ssance TR Belle, Adg, À Au F réprimer les troubies sur son : : | territoire et s’est jetée dans les [1.8.3 24 bras de la Russie pour se faire Hobbler, #2. F ee 9 4 |

Veui:- lez inscrire ces quelques lignes dans les colonnes de votre esti- mable journal.

M. Peter S. S. Duffy, inst, de Bloomfield, qui depuis quel-

le passage des Dardanelles aux navires de guerre des autres! nations au cas où la Russie fe- rait des préparatifs de guerre contre n'importe quelle puis-

| peut maintenant vaquer à affaires.

| La dernière séance que nous ‘avons eue, samedi soir, a dé- montré que nos débats con- ’|tinuent à devenir de plus en pfus intéressants. Sur la liste des membres nous voyons déjà | | les noms de plusieurs personnes des autres districts. Le sujet :

sitôt l’idée d’un tel traité de-! jé à

vant le refus formel des puis- de la reconnaitre. Ce. journal dit également que l’am- | bassadeur français en Turquie,

M. Cambon, a eu hier une en- trevue avec le sultan et qu'il! est fort probable que la Frauce.

soit admise dans la nouvelle al-

liance. brutes US ; Fe st il pruden Faisant des commentaires | _— e consei à

sur cette nouvelle, la aie PE _u Shen ï Mall Gazette” dit : Nous consi- |" *"PECIà OU atlleurs ? à don- né occasion à de beaux dis-

| COT:TS Nous avons en dernièrement

dérons cette nonvelle bien fon- dée et par ce traité il faut bien reconnaitre que les Dardanelles

une couise de chevaux sur la

sont maintenant le point fort | “Mill Ri rivière “Mill Riv ; des frontières extrêmes de la! 2 er” entre qua

Russie et que les Tarces sont 1° Ps no rn ter Duvar by k q à È les vassaux du tsar. 1l est à es. "024. La glace étaiten excel

lent état et le tem ès favor- pèrer que le gouvernement an- s s ere "… _ qui é-

ab t protestera énergique-| | le. Les spectateurs, taient en grand nombre, ont

passé une après-mtdi de sport dans tou‘e la foce du mot. L'erdre a été parfait.

gœlais

Cette nouvelle est de la plus

wide-awake

ask quistions :

days you

cents a das ou ie: F pe should! ee this ns : EV factit 7 be found more fan necens necessary.

person. Boys cellars {n search of old Presses, which may LP te vor mdhroé 24 Who de A small fortune may be in your verr do not senä y erins or pe can seli them at why Le La rare.

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Some will cut prices unmercifully. I do’nt. My prices were always low.

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seen ere à porion TWENTY THOUSAND

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if cents ee tween >? #5. 00 ‘each, some large old

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three-cent pieces,

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