. Fruits for the cold north [microform] : report on Russian fruits : by Charles Gibb, Abbotsford, Quebec : with notes on Russian apples imported in 1870 by Department of Agriculture. Fruit; Apples; Fruits; Pomme. >?.'. !i^ . i FRUITS FOR THE COLD NORTH. RUSSIAN FRUITS. By CHARLES GIBB, Abbotsford, Quebec. With Notes on the Russian Apples imported in 1870 by the Department oj Agriculture. It may seem strange that the fruits of Russia are so little known in this country, scarcely known even in Germany, that the fruits of one part of Russia are often but little known in another. Our
. Fruits for the cold north [microform] : report on Russian fruits : by Charles Gibb, Abbotsford, Quebec : with notes on Russian apples imported in 1870 by Department of Agriculture. Fruit; Apples; Fruits; Pomme. >?.'. !i^ . i FRUITS FOR THE COLD NORTH. RUSSIAN FRUITS. By CHARLES GIBB, Abbotsford, Quebec. With Notes on the Russian Apples imported in 1870 by the Department oj Agriculture. It may seem strange that the fruits of Russia are so little known in this country, scarcely known even in Germany, that the fruits of one part of Russia are often but little known in another. Our fruits came to us, as it were, by chance. In the days of the old French colony, the peasants of Normandy and Brittany brought with them the seeds, and perhaps the scions of the apples they loved most in their native land. Later, the Englishman intror duced his favourite fruits, and the Scotchman his ; in time the matt(jr became commercial, and we soon had under trial in Canada and in the Eastern States all the best fruits of the mild humid portion of western Europe. That not mtil 1882 we should have begun to explore our own like climates in the old world seems strange indeed ! The fruits of western Europe and their pure offspring, born on this continent, as a rule, are not long-li"ed upon the western prairies above latitude 43|°, not a success above 45^° in this Province, and that only in exceptionally favourable localities. In eastern Russia we find fruit growing a profitable industry in climates decidedly more severe than that of the city of Quebec. Hence we may expect to increase the area of fruit culture northward upon this continent very largely. 7.'he uncertainty of these fruit trees of western Europe in the severer climates, had led to large importations by the State Agricultural College at Ames, Iowa. (See 7th Report Montreal Hort. Soc, p. 151.) Prof. Budd had gathered there the largest collection of fruits for severe climates, which I know to exist; but such was
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