448 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



tities of cider are exported to Great Britain from the United States, and he sees 

 no reason why Canada should not participate in the same trade." 



The journal is published by L. Lumley & Co., i America Square, London, 

 E.C. There is certainly an immense quantity of waste apples in our orchards 

 which might well be utilized more generally in making cider, providing once it 

 was proved that an export trade in it could be made profitable. 



The Dominion Government has kindly undertaken to pay the freight 

 charges on the shipment of tender fruits to Liverpool in cold storage. It is 

 stated by Mr. Craig, in a letter just received, that at the solicitation of the Fruit 

 Growers' Association, and his recommendation, the Acting Minister of Agricul- 

 ture has agreed to ask Parliament for a vote to be applied to experimental work 

 along the same line in 1896. No doubt this undertaking, if carefully persevered 

 in, will result in materially advancing the interests of Canadian fruit growers. 



Grout's Seedling. — Mr. John H. Grout, President of the Grimsby Hor- 

 ticultural Society, handed in a sample of a fine dessert apple very much 

 resembling the Woolverton (a Princess Louise) in appearance and in flavor. It 

 is a chance seedling, probably of Fameuse, growing along the north side of the 

 mountain at Grimsby. For a choice dessert apple for the month of October, it 



Fig. 870.— Grout's Seedling. 



might be desirable. The drawing of the section will give a correct idea of its 

 size. The color is yellowish, almost straw color, with dark pink blush in the 

 sun. The flesh is white, tender, juicy, with mild sub-acid very agreeable; per- 

 fumed flavor. 



