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Prof. SauNpERS.—I would like to see it raised a little for the home market as I 
think it is one of the finest apples for dessert. I move that it be raised at least one 
point for the home market, and I shall be very glad if anyone will tell me just now 
where I can get some. 
Mr. A. McD, Atian.—I am willing to acquiesce in that, but it is difficult under 
other than exceptional circumstances to get a demand for it. There is no demand for it 
in the home or foreign market. I have tried it both here, in Britain and in the States. 
I got the best prices for it in New York, but it had been pretty well written up there at 
the time. I afterwards shipped some there and got very little for them. 
Mr. Dempsey.—It is an apple that looks so much like a young seedling in every 
way that unless a person knows it he will not buy ; but anyone who knows the apple will 
pay the highest price for it as a dessert apple. 1 think we have no better, but for the 
home market or foreign market it is certainly not sufficiently attractive to the eye. 
Prof. Saunprers.—I think that is a reason why the committee should adopt my sug- 
gestion ; it is our duty to show that we appreciate a really good apple, despite its ill 
looks. 
Mr. Bucke.—The reason it is so low is that its color is very much against it. You 
-caunot tell Grimes’ Golden in a barrel until it gets ripe, and gets its color. 
President Lyon.—It is one of those very rare varieties that grow down as far as 
Virginia, and yet it seems to hold its full quality with us, and even farther north 
than here. 
Mr. Extiorr.—Here it colors up nicely on the tree—it does with me—a rich, golden 
yellow. I have shown it under two or three heads, and it has almost always taken 
a prize. 
RED CANADA. 
A Memper.—Give us the rating of Red Canada ? ; 
Mr. Bearu.—It is 2 for dessert, 6 for cooking, 7 for home market, and 8 for foreign 
. market. ’ 
Mr. Exriorr.—It is superior to Ben Davis and I would recommend that it be raised 
to 6 for a dessert apple. Motion carried. 7 
President Lyon.—The Red Canada often passes for a Baldwin, but among buyers it 
is sometimes rated much higher as a dessert apple than as a culinary fruit. It is con- 
siderably sought after, and sold in the same market for much higher prices than the 
Baldwin, which is our next popular apple. 
Mr. Wiete (Kingsville).—We find it far ahead of the Baldwin. 
Mr. Witson.—I find the exporters are snapping at all the red apples they do not 
know the name of, and any apple they do not know the name of and which is red in 
color, they name “Canada Red.” Ido not think we can judge by the way it sells in the 
market whether it is a good apple or not. 
BEN DAVIS. 
A Memper.—What is the rating of Ben Davis? 
Mr. Bratt.—3 for dessert, 1 for cooking, 8 for home market and 9 for foreign 
market. 
The Secretrary.—1 is enough for dessert, is it not ? 
Mr. Witson.—I move that Ben Davis be rated 0 fordessert, 1 for cooking, and 9 
for foreign market. 
Mr. Dempsey.—Anything that is worth growing at all is worth growing well, and 
when we talk about the home market or the foreign market we mean, What is going to 
give us the most money? Now, I can make more money out of one tree of Ben Davis 
than I can off fifty trees of King of Tompkins County. We havea lot of trees of King 
of Tompkins County twelve years planted, and we have never realised twelve barrels 
off them, and we have got as much as twelve barrels off a single tree of Ben Davis. 
When we look at the quotations in the English market we find that Ben Davis is sold as 
_ high as 32 shillings per barrel. 
