THE PACKING OF FRUIT. 



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trict, all nursery stock is thoroughly fumi- 

 gated according to law, before leaving the 

 place. 



SHIPPING FACILITIES. 



For shipping purposes a private siding 

 runs from the T., H. & B. railway, and 

 gives direct connection with the Michigan 

 Central at Welland, and the C. P. R. and 

 G. T. R. at Hamilton. The facilities for 

 shipping will be even better in the near 



future, as now there are two electric lines 

 projected through the neighborhood. 



Visitors in the Niagara district will be 

 repaid for any effort made to visit these 

 nurseries, as they are well worth seeing. 

 Our representative, after viewing all the 

 plant and inspecting the numerous build-, 

 ings, could not help but express great sur- 

 prise at their extent and completeness. 

 This firm has certainly built up a very large 

 business in a comparatively short time. 



THE PACKING OF FRUIT 



FIRST in importance of our Ontario 

 fruits is the apple. TJiis statement 

 might have met flat contradiction a few 

 years ago, when the available markets were 

 glutted and prices low, and many apple or- 

 chards were rooted out. Especially were 

 the early apples unsaleable, and in all our 

 horticultural journals the advice was, "Plant 

 no summer or fall apples for export." 



All this is changing, for new markets are 

 opening, better facilities for carrying the 

 fruit are being provided,' and for our early 

 apples cold storage on cars and steamships 

 is yearly becoming more easily available. 

 During August and the early part of Sep- 

 tember we have Yellow Transparent, Red 

 Astrachan, Duchess, Alexander and other 



summer varieties coming in, and the 

 two former at least promise to yield 

 an abundant harvest. These should 

 not be gathered all at one time, as we 

 do with winter apples, because they ripen 

 more unevenly. In our own Astrachan or- 

 chard we make at least three pickings of the 

 main crop, in addition to a previous picking 

 of prematures. These latter sell well in the 

 market, put up in 12-quart baskets, because 

 they are the first offered. We have had 

 well colored premature Astrachans sold in 

 Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal at 75 cents 

 a basket, which pays well for the trouble of 

 climbing over the trees for the scattered 

 samples showing red cheeks. 



With Astrachans selection of fancv stock 



A Building Wiiich Holds 500,000 Trees. 



The storage cellar erected last year by the Brown Bros. Company, Nurserymen Limited, which is probably the finest of the kind 

 in Canada, is here shown. This building is fully described in this issue. (From a photograph taken specially for The Horticulturist). 



