August, 1916. 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



203 



Notes on Montreal Fruit Trade 



E. H. Wartman, Dominion Fruit Inspector, Montreal, P.Q. 



This 15th day of July finds our Ontario 

 and Quebec strawberries nearly to an end. 

 To-day New Brunswick strawberries and 

 Ontario raspberries have arrived, which is 

 a true sign Ontario and Quebec strawberries 

 firo about finished. My surprise is, we have 

 had the smallest shipments of strawberries 

 ill many years from Ontario. Therefore, our 

 commission men here have reaped a small 

 harvest. The question is, where has Mont- 

 real gotten her supply, or has she been sat- 

 isfied with only a taste and expects to make 

 up by using other fruits more plentiful? 

 Few are aware that within 30 miles of 

 Montreal fruit growers have found out in 

 the past few years raising strawberries in 

 this vicinity has been a profitable business. 

 Therefore acreage has increased year after 

 year, so we have large quantities near 

 home. Some days Montreal received over 

 3,000 crates from these outlying districts; 

 not 27 size either, but 54's, which is the 

 common crate here — a rough, strong crate, 

 and when delivered on easy springs lands 

 the fruit in good order and it sells quickly at 

 remunerative prices to growers. The box 

 used very largely is the one marked short, 

 the balance the standard 4-5 qt. WTien 1 

 compare prices obtained by Quebec and On- 

 tario I find Ontario men get quite an ad- 



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vance on Quebec growers' prices for same 

 quantity of fruit. However, our Quebec 

 berry growers are fortunate, living so near 

 this big market. No excessive express rates 

 to pay, as they carry their own to market, 

 and where cooperation comes in, where one 

 grower has half a load his neighbor fills out, 

 say, from 15 to 30 crates, adjusting ex- 

 penses. As to quality of Quebec berries 

 versus Ontario I am not here to be the 

 judge, but will say I bought 12 boxes Quebec 

 berries on Bonsecours Market for 75c. When 

 I got them home I picked out 19 berries and 

 measured the circumference of each cor- 

 rectly, finding the average size a little over 

 5% inches; the largest 5% inches in circum- 

 ference. The next test was to sugar a few 

 and taste them, and I declare I could not 

 detect any bad taste in any of them; in fact 

 would pronounce them phenonflnally good lu 

 flavor. Therefore, we would conclude if 

 Quebec should double her acreage another 

 year, Montreal will not require many from 

 other provinces, although it takes a very 

 large quantity to flood this market, as this 

 fruit is a ijarticular favorite. I was told by 

 a friend of mine living on Island of Mont- 

 real he had last year 20,000 boxes of berries 

 on his own plantation. This gentleman had 

 4.000 barrels apples in one season. I give 

 these figures, as many have no idea such 

 quantities grow on the Island of Montreal. 



Raspberries from Ontario have started. 

 First crate sold at 25c per qt. by crate. We 

 are hopeful large quantities of this fruit 

 will be shipped here, although prospects are 

 not the brightest, on account of winter kill- 

 ing of canes. What do come here in good 

 order will likely bring long prices. I could 

 mention the name of a berry grower in 

 Frince Edward Co. who made a fortune 

 selling berries from 10 acres to the can- 

 ning companies at 7c per qt. Of course to- 

 dav it costs a great deal more to produce 

 a "crate of berries than 30 years ago. All 

 could not expect to be as successful as this 

 man, as he was a real expert along this line; 

 had a cannery at his door, losing no crate 

 or berry boxes, and free of express charges. 

 One fnilt firm here this season had to pay 

 $172 express charges on one dav's shipments 

 from Ontario. This is quite a charge against 

 one day's fruits. 



California fruits are arriving; about 15 

 ears per week; quality improving all the 

 time in |ize and color. Peaches, plums and 

 Bartlett pears. Fruiters buy this fruit 

 readily, as it has very fine appearance and 

 good keeping qualities, of uniform pack. 



I will now give you a crop report of 45 

 latge healthy apple trees just outside my 

 window, but don't want you to take this as 

 the general crop of Quebec. Last year, if 

 apples had had a "chance to mature on 

 these trees, I would have expected 50 bar- 

 rels. These were of the Fameuse tyipe and 

 codling. The boys took them all before 

 being nearly ripe. When looking for one to 

 eat at picking season not one was to be 

 found. Would judge same trees this fall 

 w ould produce 25 barrels, but am quite sure 

 the crop will be marketed in the same way 

 as last year. I can only look out of the 

 window and see them go. This property is 

 taxed very high and owner will get no re- 

 turns. Some would say, and riglitly too, 

 where is your police protection? This or- 

 chard is within the city limits. Another or- 

 chard of 13 acre.s in same district, worth 

 $10,000 per acre, with finest of Mcintosh 

 and Fajneuse, guarded by tenant all day 

 long and even by this protection, will lose 

 .1 large quantity. Would not advise any- 



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