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of the Woolverton, or Princess Louise apple. They are heavily laden, indi- 

 cating great productiveness of tree. The samples show two distinct varieties 

 in external coloring, while the quality remains the same ; one is somewhat 

 striped, the other with a decided red cheek on yellowish ground. Mr. Benian 

 also shows one of the trees of the Ontario received from our Association, now 

 l6aded down with choice fruit. 



At Trenton we found the orchard of our experimenter, Mr. W. H. Demp- 

 sey, in an excellent state of cultivation. He has built an apple store house> 

 which has two dead air spaces all round, and in which his apples keep perfectly. 

 He finds he can almost double the value of choice apples by storing them, and 

 then assorting and shipping it to the British market just when each variety is 

 most wanted. A photogravure of his apple house is here presented. It is not a 

 very expensive building, and a large part of the work has been done by Mr. 

 Dempsey, who is himself of a mechanical turn. 



Mr. Dempsey's orchard is very extensive, and has already been described. 

 Walking through it from the packing house toward the mountain, on th2 slope 

 of which the orchard is situated, we passed through a fine avenue, bordered en 



Fk;. 837. — Or.CHAKi) ok Mr. \V. H. Dempsky, Trfnton. 



