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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



their apples excel the " Valley " in quality. 

 It has been largely accidental that King's 

 and Annapolis counties have been growing 

 the great bulk of the fruit. 



During the next lo years King's county, 

 Nova Scotia, will be rather conspicuous for 

 its output. Though from one standpoint 

 the plantings of recent years have been few, 

 yet in the aggregate they have been suffi- 

 cient to put the crop at 500,000 barrels in 

 the near future. The setting of 1,000 to 

 2,000 trees by an orchardist of late has 

 scarcely caused a passing conunent. Fif- 

 teen years ago 1,000 barrels was the highest 

 mark for a single farm. Eight years ago 

 2,000 barrels was the largest figure. Two 

 years ago 3,300 barrels were harvested from 

 one property. Within five years 4,000 

 barrels, within 10 years 5,000 to 7,000 bar- 

 rels will be shipped by a single grower. 



After evolving a scheme for encouraging 



the more rapid development of fruit culture 

 in the other counties I presented it to the 

 government of the province. It included 

 the planting of one to three model and ex- 

 perimental orchards in the most desirable 

 localities in each county and the securing 

 of five to ten farmers in each locality to 

 duplicate in area and in care the pattern set 

 by the government. 



The government has adopted the scheme 

 in part, having established one or two or- 

 chards of two acres in each county. The 

 success of the scheme submitted should aid 

 largely in stimulating the planting in large 

 areas around each nucleus and quite rapidly 

 cover the bare fields with trees supplying a 

 variety and quantity of fruits which will 

 make each county produce, it is hoped, in 

 the not far distant future, as much as either 

 King's or Annapolis counties are growing 

 to-dav. 



CANADIAN APPLES IN ENGLAND 



T. H. RACE, OTTAW'A, ONT. 



WHAT becomes of all our good Cana- 

 dian apples is a question that I 

 have been asking myself during the past 

 two months without a satisfactory answer. 

 I do not find them on the tables of our ocean 

 steamers, nor on the hotel tables in England, 

 nor on the large market stands, nor in the 

 shop windows. On the Cunard and Anchor 

 line steamers, both British lines, nothing but 

 a third class Baldwin can be found upon the 

 tables. In fact throughout England it wa? 

 Baldwins of a low grade that I found of- 

 fered everywhere. Having been in Eng- 

 land for the past two months in charge of 

 the Canadian exhibit at the Colonial Pro- 

 ducts Exhibition, Liverpool, I made it my 

 business to see and learn all I could of 

 Canadian fruit there. For our exhibit we 

 had 55 boxes of well selected apples, Ben 

 Davis, Spitzenburgs, and Blue Pearmains 

 from British Columbia ; Peerless, Mcintosh 

 Red from the St. Lawrence valley; Spys, 



Baldwins, Stark, Ribston Pippins, Green- 

 ings, Kings, Golden and Roxbury Russets 

 and Cranberry Pippins from Ontario, Que- 

 bec and Nova Scotia. In all the boxes 

 each apple was wrapped in a separate piece 

 of paper. \ here was never before such an 

 attractive display of apples seen in Liver- 

 pool. " Why cannot we get our apples 

 done up in that shape here in the market?" 

 was the question that everybody asked. We 

 wholesaled our stock to one of the most en- 

 terprising dealers in Liverpool at six shil- 

 lings a box,and he disposed of them at a 

 large profit, as he said himself, " like wild 

 fire." 



I do not know that this price, six shillings, 

 would pay the packer, but we could have got 

 two shillings more just as easily, only we 

 wanted to give the dealer a chance to boom 

 them, which he did. 



One morning I visited St. John's market, 

 the largest in the city, and I saw there any 



