Believing that it would be interesting to the numerous readers of the
CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST, I have taken some pains to ascertain the amount
of plums and apples shipped from two of our towns, during the season of
1877, respectively, Meaford and Owen Sound. There was shipped from
Meaford, 5,000 boxes of plums, and 3,000 barrels of apples; Owen Sound,
3,327 boxes of plums, and 1,579 barrels of apples.
Your readers will see by this that although this is but a new county we
are not altogether behind in horticulture. And I might say that trees
are coming into the county by the thousands every year, and we hope
before long to be one of the first counties in the province for apples,
plums, pears, cherries, grapes, &c., and in some localities peaches do
well. Our prospects this year for apples and grapes are good, but plums,
cherries, pears, &c., are light.
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