Excerpt from Forty-First Annual Report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1909 Fifty years have passed away Since the charter members subscribed at Hamil ton, Ontario, forming the beginning of the Ontario Fruit Growers' Association, that has been in active force in Ontario since that date. It will be well at this time to take a retrospective glance at the progress made during the last fifty years in Horticulture in Ontario, and, at the same time, see if the lessons learned in that fifty years may enable us to improve and make more profitable our calling in the future. There are a number of papers to be read at this meeting, looking back fifty years, in regard to special lines of fruit-growing. I would not be able to touch upon the ground occupied by these papers if I felt inclined, as my experience does not reach so far and our provincial statistics do not give us very much information at that very early date. However, remembering back for thirty-five years I know that the progress has been most wonderful in the acreage of the various fruits. Dur ing that time we have seen most, if not all, of the canning factories and jam fac tories established in Ontario. All of the tender fruit-growing industries have prec tically been established within fifty years and have grown to the very considerable proportions that we know they have reached to -day. It is true there were at that time a considerable number of apple orchards, but they were of Small dimensions individually and it has only been of late years that orchardists have gone into the growing of apples on an extensive scale, directly for commercial purposes. According to the Blue Books, we have at present growing in Ontario over apple trees in bearing; acres of vineyards; acres of orchard and garden. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.