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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



June, igio 



joining provinces. But as a matter of fact 

 I have never heard of a shipment of those 

 cherries being made, and when the h)cal de- 

 mand is supplied the balance of tlie orop is 

 either ^ivcn away or left for the birds or, 

 perchance, to rot upon the ground. It will 

 readily be seen that the owner of a cherry 

 orchard at the present time it at a distinct 

 disadvantage, since any neighbors that may 

 be invited to share the bounty of his crop 

 invariably share the bounty of his table. 



Since this cherry is firm and a good ship- 

 per, it seems strange that some attempt is 

 not made to market them outisrle of the Is- 

 land. In the vicinity of .Summerside or 

 Charlottetown, cherries coidd be picked in 

 the morning and arrive in St. John or 

 Halifax in time for delivery the same even- 

 ing, under present arrangements. At great 

 er distances from these centres, they would 

 require to be picked the evening before ; 

 but, in any case, they should reach their 

 destination in a prime condition. As they 

 come on the market when there is generally 

 a scarcity of small fruit they should meet 

 a ready sale at good prices. Here it would 

 seem is where a little enterprise might make 

 profitable a wasted asset. 



Large Fruit in England 



At a fruit show in Evesham, England, last 

 fall, the quality and size of the fruit shown 

 was remarkable. From the Birminghain 

 Daily Mail the following information was 

 taken : 



"Some idea of the size may be judged from 

 the fact that six Belle de Jersey cooking 

 pears turned the scale at no less than 11 ^i 

 lbs., six Cattilac pears weighed 10>i lbs., six 

 Pitmaston Duchess pears 9)4 lbs., and six 

 Doyenne dn Comioe pears 8% lbs. A simi- 

 lar number of Sterling Castle apples weighed 

 7% lbs., six Lord Derbys 7 lbs., six Bran - 



ley's seedlings 6]4 "'S-. a"d six Lane's 

 Prince Alberts ^H lbs." 



This shows what English fruit growers can 

 do in the way of size. Three of these pears 

 are grown in Ontario the Belle d'> Jer- 

 ^•ey, the Doyenne du Comioe and the Pit- 

 maston Duchess. The Pitmaston Duchess is 

 not by any means common : but there are 

 a few" TiTP. C\NADIAN HoRTTII.TT-RIPT does 

 not know of any one growinf the Catillac 

 in Canada : but the size of thi ; and all the 

 varieties mentioned is somewhat remarkable. 



With the exception of Lane'>i Prino" Al- 

 bert, none of the apples have been grown 

 in this country, and the Prince Albert is but 

 little known here as yet. The Can.vdi.^n 

 HoRTiCTTT.TTTRisT (Nov. 1892") comment- on 

 specimens received from Cobonrg, Ont., 

 thus: "Lane's Prince Albert is a winter 

 cooking apple, large, clear skin, marked 

 like our Cayuga Red Streak." 



If any growers in Canada have tested 

 any of the varieties of pears or apples men- 

 tioned, they are requested to send brief re- 

 ports of their characteristics and value for 

 publication in The Canadi\n Horticultur- 

 rST. The list was submitted to Mr. Linus 

 Woolverton, Grimsby, Ont., author of "'J'he 

 Apple Growers' Guide," a work now being 

 published and the following is his reply ; 



"The Belle de Jersey pear is quite distinct 

 from the Louise Bonne de Jersey. The lat- 

 ter is an excellent de.ssert pear, quite to be 

 reconrmended for culture in Canada; the 

 former is another name for Uvedale's St. 

 Germain, a very large cooking pear, some- 

 times weighing three pounds, and in use 

 in England from January to April. It is 

 not recommended for Ontario. 



"The Cornice is favorably reported by pear 

 growers in Ontario, for it is of good quality, 

 large size, ripens late in the autumn and 

 keeps well after being fully ripe. 



"The Ciitillac is a French pear of large 

 size, and keeps through the winter, but the 

 fle.sh is hard and only used for baking or 

 stewing. 



"The Pitmaston has be.'n Jrown for some- 

 time in the writer's experimental grounds 

 at Grimsby. It is large, of goo'l quality, 

 and of a fine clear yellow skin, free from 

 blemishes and running fairly uniform in 

 size. It appears to be a desirable export 

 pear. 



"Of the apples, Lane's Prin'o Albert is 

 a large, handsome English iipple, raised by 

 H. Lane and first exhibited in 18-57. Hogg 

 in his Fri it Manual says it mf.Tsures three 

 and a half inches wide by three and a quart- 

 er high, is a clear pale yellow when ripe, 

 often with broken streaks of bright crim- 

 son, and the flesh is tender, juicy and agree- 

 able, so that it is considered an excellent 

 cooking ajiplo. The tree is a marvellous 

 bearer in England. 



"Lord Derby is another large English ap- 

 ple, which in that country sometimes rearhes 

 four inches in diameter. It is something 

 like our big Gloria Mundi. It is a cooking 

 apple only and keeps in England until 

 about Christmas. 



"Bramley's Seedling is also an English 

 apple; it resembles Blenheim in appearanc 

 and is counted a valuable cooking apple up 

 to January. 



"On the whole, these English apples are 

 not well adapted to the climatic conditions 

 of our province. Some of them succeed "well 

 in British Columbia where the conditions 

 seem to be more suitable to them." 



In England it is proposed to hold an In- 

 ternational Horticultural Exhibition in Lon- 

 don in 1912. Preliminary arrangements have 

 been made. Further details will be pub- 

 lished later. 



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