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The crop of famous Sebastopol Gravenstein Apples is now 

 moving. Season closes August 26th. The best apples from 

 over 200 of our best orchards. Community packing houses 

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when the temperature will be under 

 control, it is desirable to adopt every 

 means which experience has shown to 

 be profitable for the safe carriage of 

 the fruit. 



The age of the trees has an influence 

 on the development of pit, and this was 

 clearly stated in my second report 

 under the heading of "Old Apple and 

 Pear Trees": "It is a well-known fact 

 that young and vigorous trees are liable 

 to this disease, while old and well- 

 established trees are comparatively 

 free, and this is just what would be 

 expected from a consideration of the 

 factors contributing to it." 



An experienced shipper has given 

 practical confirmation of this view in 

 a letter recently received, and it is 

 worthy of the attention of those 

 orchardists engaged in the export trade. 

 Mr. F. W. Moore, who was formerly 

 Secretary to the Council of Agriculture 

 in Tasmania and now belonging to a 

 firm of Australian fruit merchants, 

 Covent Garden, London, has kindly 

 placed at my disposal his experience, 

 extending over sixteen years. In 1900 

 he started shipping apples from Tas- 

 mania and came over to London with 

 his first consignment, which landed in 

 good condition. Next year he shipped 

 two consignments of apples by way of 

 the Cape, and had not only seen these 

 apples growing on the trees, but many 

 of them were wrapped and picked in 

 his presence, and he felt satisfied that 

 no better fruit had been shipped. When 

 the fruit was opened in London, he was 

 astonished to find that a very large pro- 

 portion of the Ribston Pippins were 

 badly affected with bitter pit. It so 

 happened that a very large proportion 

 of this variety, which was the only one 

 affected, had been grown on young 

 trees. 



In 1902 he started the business in 

 London of supervising the handling and 

 sale of Tasmanian apples, and since that 

 time his firm has had to do with the 

 shipments of apples from all parts of 

 Australia. As the result of this large 

 experience he has come to the follow- 

 ing conclusions: (1) That Ribston Pip- 

 pins from older trees show less bitter 

 pit than from younger trees, and in- 

 stances the case of a Tasmanian grower 

 who never ships this variety to England 

 from trees under ten years old, and 

 while bitter pit is never altogether 

 absent from his consignments, it has 

 never been very bad. (2) That fruit 



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