. The Canadian horticulturist. Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture. Fig. 1594. Kev. a E. Burke, P. P. Director F. G. E feel sure that the mem- i bers of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, the mother and mistress of all such associations in Can- ada, will learn with inter- est something of the work which the daughter society so recently organized in the little Garden Province of Prince Edward Island is doing for the advancement of horticulture within its borders. The strangest thing about this Prince Edward Island movement seems to us to be its tardiness. To think t
. The Canadian horticulturist. Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture. Fig. 1594. Kev. a E. Burke, P. P. Director F. G. E feel sure that the mem- i bers of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, the mother and mistress of all such associations in Can- ada, will learn with inter- est something of the work which the daughter society so recently organized in the little Garden Province of Prince Edward Island is doing for the advancement of horticulture within its borders. The strangest thing about this Prince Edward Island movement seems to us to be its tardiness. To think that not till the year of grace 1898 was any properly organized effort made to tempt a foreign market with our fruit, al- though we had stood before the world for almost a cen- tury as the abundant pro- ducers of the best roots in Canada, a superior quality of grains and horses, cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry equal to the best! But the answer to this wonderment is easily accepted when we state that no provincial organization vowed to the fostering of the fruit industry and its development was established here until 1896, when our far seeing, energetic and patriotic governor, Hon. G. W. Howlan, convinced him- self by what he saw of the fruit put on exhibition at the county shows which he had officially patronized and opened, that we could grow excellent apples and grow enough for ourselves and enough also to fill a big hole in the British trade. Previously even the fruit consumed in the Province was imported from the United States, from Ontario and from Nova Scotia. It is safe to say that the day of importation is now over and that the fruit growers of the Island will put themselves into sharp competition with the two above named provinces in the great British market. Although scarce a decade has flown by since a premier of the Province from his place in our local parliament boldly asserted that good apples could not be grown in Prince Edward Island, we have Alberta, P. E. I. 18
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