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Rh million cans a year. The razor-shell clams of "the Island" are plentiful, but the Malpeque oysters of Richmond Bay, north of Summerside, are its best-known sea product. New Brunswick claims superiority for her Shediac and Buctouche oysters.

Strawberries are ripe in July in the famous beds of Tusket, east of Yarmouth. As late as August one finds the wild variety for sale, at 50 cents the gallon, in northern counties of Nova Scotia. Huckleberries and blueberries are picked well on in September on woodland ridges of the major provinces. The bake-apple is a small fruit, yellow in colour but with a flavour like a blackberry, which grows abundantly in northern regions; likewise the wild cranberry, which Dr. Fernald of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard, identifies with the wineberry said to have been discovered by the Norsemen who touched the shores of Canada a thousand years ago.

The Annapolis Valley has a wide reputation for its apples of various kinds, and for its peaches and its plums, and Bear River, near Digby, is equally well known for its cherries.

In the remote districts of Cape Breton, where vegetables are sown late and have but a short season in which to ripen, the solitary potato, boiled, and rarely cooked otherwise, appears three times a day with wearisome monotony. In compensation for certain deprivations there is an abundance