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Mr. Wright. — The Mackintosh Ked has kept with me till the middle of winter 

 withov;t any trouble, and is about as handsome an apple as anyone would want to put on 

 any table. 



Mr. Leslie. — I find the Peach of Montreal to be the same apple identically that 

 we have had for years called the Indian Rajah. 



Mr. Dexton. — I find that the general crop of apples around London is greatly a 

 failure this year. I would ask whether that is general or local, and what is the cause of if? 



Mr. Young. — I am afraid the apple crop will not be so abundant as we were in 

 hopes it would be. 



Mr. Beall. — In the neighbourhood in which I live the apple crop will be more 

 abundant than was ever known before, judging from my own observations and from the 

 reports I have got from a large number of small growers. 



Mr. Young. — Do you grow apples there extensively for market 1 



Mr. Beall. — No. 



Mr. Dempsey. — Have you had any experience in growing apples for drying or for 

 cider"? 



Mr. Peck. — I do not think that our summer apples have been converted into cider 

 or dried ; for they have not been raised that extensively here, and what have been raised 

 have been consumed at home or shipped off". 



A Member. — Do you classify the St. Lawrence as a summer apple? 



Mr. Peck. — We do not. There have not been any places for making cider here 

 until last fall. 



Mr. Dempsey. — The object in introducing this question was to ascertain in what 

 way we can convert our surplus early fruit in a manner sufliciently remunerative to 

 encourage us to cultivate it. 



Mr. Bucke. — I do not think that summer apples, as a rule, are grown in any quantity 

 by anybody. 



Mr, Dempsey. — There are localities where they cannot grow any late-keeping 

 varieties of apples ; they are confined to the growth of summer varieties. Why this is 

 the case I am not able to tell you ; but it occurs to me that the earlier in the season the 

 crop of fruit is removed from the trees, the better the opportunity that is aff'orded that 

 tree to mature its wood and to be prepared for the severity of the winter. But if the 

 fruit is removed early by people living in the sections of our country in which the climate 

 is more severe, they are in danger of getting a surplus of these early fruits. I would 

 encourage the growing of the early varieties in such sections as this, where we can grow 

 the later-keeping apples such as they cannot grow successfully in such localities as Ottawa 

 and Renfrew. 



Mr. Bucke. — The time has not arrived yet when we grow so many apples in the 

 northern section of the country that we cannot use them. 



Mr. Matheson. — I would like to know whether the summer apple is suitable for 

 drying purposes. I have no doubt the varieties of apples mentioned by Mr. Wright, 

 particularly the Duchess of Oldenburg, can be grown as extensively there as in any part 

 of Ontario ; and whether that apple can be used for drying is something I would like to 

 know. 



Mr. Dempsey. — Is there any person present who has attempted to dry early apples 



Mr. Mallory.— The St. Lawrence is a very superior apple for drying. I have tried 

 it. I have no acquaintance with the Duchess of Oldenburg. 



Mr. a. M. Smith. — I have never had any experience myself, but I have heard the 

 Duchess of Oldenburg mentioned as a very good apple for drying by a person engaged 

 in the evaporating business. 



Mr, Wright. — I would like to know if there is any way of protecting fruit trees 

 which are not quite hardy enough for our section of the country. I have had a good 

 deal of experience in protecting trees, and the result of it has been to lead me to believe 

 that the more they are protected, the worse they are off". 



Mr. Francis Peck. — I live north of Peterboro'; and I was told that if I took some 

 of the tender varieties and tried to make them hardy, I could do so ; but my experience 

 is that you cannot make them hardier. 



