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I now present a list of the more prominent varieties of summer apples for market 

 in the order of ripening : The Early Harvest, Red Astracan, Sweet Bough, Golden Sweet, 

 Benoni, Early Joe, Early Strawberry, and Primate. I have written in italics those 

 which I think most profitable in Western Ontario. 



And now I conclude this paper by again stating my belief, that to the fruit grower 

 who is wholly given to his profession, there is profit in having apples to market at all 

 seasofis, notwithstanding that sometimes he may meet with discouragements in the way 

 of very low markets, or partial failure of his crop. 



Mr. Gott — Summer apples are grown very largely with us. Almost every person 

 has them ; and as soon as they are ready to sell the market becomes glutted with them. 

 If the grower is careful, and can get his apples into the local market early they will be 

 very profitable, but if not they will not. 



Mr. Croil. — I have not found the growing of summer apples profitable. They are 

 too perishable. We prefer waiting for the later ones. 



Mr. Dempsby. — Have you any variety sufficiently hardy ? 



Mr. Croil. — St Lawrence is our favourite early apple. 



Mr. Beadle. — Have you none earlier than that 1 Isn't the Red Astrachan about a 

 month earlier 1 We have it. It is nearly a month earlier. 



Mr. Dempsey. — What varieties have you tested there, Mr. Croil 1 



Mr. Croil. — I have purposely avoided the early apples with the exception of the 

 St. Lawrence, and, I think, one or two trees of the Red Astrachan. The others, I have 

 found, were not profitable. 



Mr. Bucke. — A gentleman has a small orchard near Ottawa of the Duchess of 

 Oldenburg ; and he claiais they are a very profitable apple. He says he never had a tree 

 killed, and he can get fruit in advance of anything he can get from the States. He has 

 not a great many barrels, but he says he could sell a thousand bushels if he had them, 

 and that they would be worth from three to three and a half dollars a barrel. They are 

 ripe about the first of September, I think. 



Mk. Beadle. — Early in September with us. I should think it would be about the 

 middle of September with you. 



Mr. Denton. — Yesterday I passed Mr. Kettlewell's orchard, and the Duchess are the 

 only trees he has bearing this year. The others are perfect failures. He said the 

 Duchess was the most profitable variety he had. 



Mr. Beall — A remark that was made by Mr. Beadle just now is, I think, calculated 

 to lead some persons astray. He said that with him the Duchess of Oldenburg would be 

 ripe by the first of September, but that farther north, where Mr. Bucke lives, it would 

 not probably be ripe until the middle of September. The implication would be, of 

 course, that the farther north we are from the Lake shore, the later the fruit will be. 

 Now, I think that it can be shown that that is not a fact. I have a large number 

 of the Duchess of Oldenburg, and I cannot keep one on the tree — I have not one for 

 sale when the first of September comes. They are all ripe and all gone before that time. 

 About the first week in August they are quite fit to take to market ; and I get a good 

 price for them. I generally get seventy -five cents a bushel for all the Duchess of Olden- 

 burg I can grow. Anywhere along the Lake shore they are a fall apple, and I generally 

 class them as a fall apple. I attribute what I have stated to the fact of the climate 

 being drier near the Lake Shore. I grow the Red Astrachan and the St. Lawrence also. 



Mr. Bell. — I have planted a great number of Early Harvest trees, and I have never 

 had one grow, I have now two or three trees which I bought for something else, but 

 which I believe are Early Harvest, and they are doing pretty well. 



Mr. Gott. — There is another early summer apple that is found to be very profitable 

 and very beautiful out west. It is called the Tetofski. I believe it is an apple of 

 Russian origin. It is an apple of good quality, quite solid, a good shipper, and a very 

 abundant bearer. It comes very eai'ly. 



Mr. Beall. — I cannot allow the remark with regard to the Tetofski to fall without 

 adding a word. I would not recommend any man to have more than two of the Tetofski. 

 I think that would be the outside that any man should have. They are early ; they are 

 a beautiful apple ; and in fact they are a very nice apple ; but in a week or ten days 



