MB1870: Manitoba Historical Photographs

Tashiro September 30 1968 Horticulture CLIFF WALKER – CANUS POTATO DOHERTY – APPLES AND GRAPES Not fireplace wood at all, they’re potatoes, cliff Walker, Potato King of the 1967 horticultural show, shows a sample of this year’s crop. Of the Canus Variety, they weigh in at up to 3 pounds, 8 ounces each. Cliff says he’s getting up to four of the giants to a hill – and taking them off the wheel-barrow load. Who says you can’t grow fruit at Portage? Not H. Doherty shown here with a box of red MacIntosh apples and blue Concord grapes grown just outside the city. Mr. Doherty has spent 40 years experimenting in fruit growing locally. His apples are round, red, and evenly ripened, the produce of a four-year-old tree that winters without any particular precautions. The grapes are simply tressled off the ground and the roots are straw covered for winter. Mr. Doherty has two peach trees which he expects to bear fruit next year.

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