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on file to show for it. The Baltimore we have grown for over forty years in 

 Wisconsin, and now find it fruiting all over Southern Wisconsin. Let me say, 

 also, that Mr. T. T. Lyon, President of the Michigan Horticultural Society, 

 agrees with me in this distinction between the two apples. I can easily see how 

 sensitive your people may be with regard to changing the popular name of a 

 fruit. I would suggest that in your future lists you use Red Canada as a 

 synonym only, that is, after you are fully decided upon this matter." 



In order to settle this matter, we have ordered from Mr. J. C Plumb, grafts 

 of his Baltimore, and from Mr. T. T. Lyon, grafts of the Red Canada. This 

 will be grafted side by side by Mr. W. H. Dempsey, at our Bay of Quinte Experi- 

 ment Station, and we hope in the course of time to be able to satisfactorily 

 settle this matter concerning the identity of the Red Canada which we grow in 

 Ontario. 



Grading Apples. — Considerable opposition has been manifested in the 

 Ontario Legislature against Mr. Dryden's Bill re the prevention of fraud in 

 packing fruit. This bill provides first, that apples and pears shall be graded into 

 first and second classes, these classes to be the same as those which were some 

 time ago agreed upon by the Fruit Growers' Association and incorporated in 

 the Dominion Inspection Act. The name of the grower is to be stamped upon 

 the package along with the grade as a guarantee of good faith, and in order to 

 identify the shipper, in case the goods are not true to the grade marked upon 

 the outside of the package. The bill further provides that all kinds of fruit 

 shipped to market shall be uniform in character with the top layer in the pack- 

 age, or, otherwise, the packer will be liable to a fine. Owing to. the opposition 

 from shippers who do not wish to be compelled to grade their fruit, the 

 important sections, providing that apples should be graded, have been omitted 

 from the bill, at least for the present. 



In our opinion there would be a decided advantage to the fruit growers 

 generally in having their fruit uniformly graded. Canadian apples will never 

 take the place they should in foreign markets until some means is adopted by 

 which fruit shall be somewhat uniform in quality, and we know of no better 

 plan than by adopting certain grades and making shippers liable to a fine if their 

 goods are not up to the grade marked upon the package. 



The only possible objection which any grower could have to the bill is the 

 provision making it compulsory that he should mark upon the packages of apples 

 and pears grade No. i or 2, as the case may be. In some instances the shipper 

 might prefer not to mark his fruit according to the grade, or he might wish to 

 ship it in bulk without separating the grades one from the other. This will be 

 a good question to submit at the next meeting of our Association to be held 

 next December, at Woodstock, when no doubt the whole bill will come under 

 review. 



Defining the grades appear to us a most important provision, because, as 



