October, igiQ 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page 13 



Plans Shipping Export Apples Through Canal 



CHARLES M. SIMONS of London, 

 connected with the firm of Simons, 

 Shultlewortli A Co., Britisli apple and 

 pear exporters, wlio have places of 

 business in London, Liverpool, Glasgow 

 and also in Xew York and Boston, who 

 was in Portland recently and talked to 

 a representative of Better Fhuit, says 

 that the time has arrived when Pacific 

 Northwest apples and pears should be 

 shipped under refrigeration in ships di- 

 rect from Pacific coast ports to Eng- 

 land. 



Simons, who is making a tour of all 

 the Pacific Northwest fruitgrowing dis- 

 tricts, including California, says that 



other English firms that are handling 

 fruits from this section of the country 

 are joining with his firm in this opinion 

 and that a movement has been started 

 to bring the matter to a successful issue. 



The plan as announced by Simons is 

 to secure from the American govern- 

 ment, if possible, the use of a dozen 

 ships that are now under the control of 

 the shipping board and that have re- 

 frigerating plants and have them make 

 regular runs via the Panama Canal 

 from Portland, Seattle and San Fran- 

 cisco to English ports. 



The apple tonnage for export in the 

 Northwest, Simons says, will be so 

 large in a year or two that it should 

 provide a highly remunerative business 

 for refrigerator ships, in addition to the 

 fact that this method of transportation 

 will be much quicker than the present 

 one of shipping across the continent by 

 railroad and reloading on the Atlantic 

 coast. The fruit, he says, will arrive in 

 England in much better condition and 

 at a lessened transportation charge. 



To secure a concerted movement, 

 Simons is taking it up with shippers in 

 each of the apple raising districts of the 

 Northwest, as well as with the business 

 organizations in the cities of Portland, 

 San Francisco and Seattle, and on his 

 return to New York is to have a confer- 

 ence with several large shipowners as 

 well as officials, who will ask the 

 shipping board to provide vessels. 



CHARLES M. SIMONS 

 OF London, England 

 Mr. Simons, who is connected with several of 

 the largest apple importing firms in the British 

 Isles, has recently been malting a tour of the 

 Northwest apple growing districts advocating 

 the shipping of boxed apples direct to England 

 through the Panama Canal. 



$200 from One Fig Free 

 A single tree of Capri figs, situated 

 in an orange orchard at Portersville, 

 California, purchased recently by tlie 

 Rev. A. H. Zahl, retired pastor of the 

 Emmanuel Evangelical church, netted 

 the owner $200 in one season, it became 

 known recently. Rev. Zahl discovered 

 the tree situated in a corner of the orch- 

 ard and covered with the Capri wasp, 

 necessary for the poUenation of the 

 fig. He later secured a crop of 2000 

 pounds from the tree, which he sold for 

 ten cents a pound. 



Saving Injured Fruit Trees by Bridge Grafting 



VALUABLE fruit trees are often so 

 seriously injured by splitting or be- 

 ing gnawed by mice and rabbits who 

 eat the bark and sapwood at the sur- 

 face of the ground that they die unless 

 aided by tree surgery. The remedy to 

 be sui)plie(l in this case is bridge graft- 



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ing. In order to apply this remedy you 

 should first trim ofTF the gnawed parts 

 of the bark or the bark on the edges of 

 the split with a sharp knife leaving the 

 edges smooth. Then take a twig or 

 scion of last summer's growth about as 

 thick as a lead pencil and long enough 

 to extend an inch and one-half above 

 and below the gnawed part. Both above 

 and below the part to be grafted, cut 

 out a strip of bark an inch and a half 

 long and as wide as the twig or graft is 

 thick. Trim both ends of the graft on 

 the same side by paring it down to 

 about half its thickness for a length of 

 about two inches and then fit the pre- 

 pared ends into the bark cuts above and 

 below the injury. Fasten each end of 

 the graft to the tree by driving in a 

 very fine tack or brad not much thicker 

 than a pin. Cover the ends of the graft 

 and all cut surfaces with grafting wax. 



.\ union between the graft and the 

 tree will then take place and the in- 

 jured part will be bridged over. In 

 very bad cases of injury it may be 

 necessary to fasten the lower end of the 

 graft into one of the tree roots. Place 

 a graft every two inches across the in- 

 jured part. 



A FINE EXAMPLE OF BRIDGE GRAFTING 

 The apple tree shown in this illustration was 

 frozen four years ago and the trunk split open. 

 A scion was cut and grafted in from bark to 

 bark along tlie break, with the result that the 

 tree is today in flne condition. By splitting the 

 bark on this graft at the sides it will event- 

 ually seal up with the trunk and in a few- 

 years it will be difficult to perceive that a graft 

 has been set in. 



The Old Reliable 



BELL & CO. 



Incorporated 



WHOLESALE 



Fruits and Produce 



112-114 Front Street 

 PORTLAND, OREGON 



Richey& Gilbert Co. 



H. M. GILBERT, President and Manager 

 Growers and Shippers of 



Yakima Valley Fruits 

 and Produce 



SPECIALTIES 

 Apples, Peaches, Pears and Cantaloupes 



YAKIMA. WASHINGTON 



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