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tendency is emphasized from year to year, 

 and our orchards become late in bearing. 

 Scions should be cut from bearing trees, and 

 from those which bear most abundantly, in 

 order to propagate this characteristic. So 

 also there are great possibilities in the way 

 of propagating characteristics of size of 

 fruit, color, flavor, etc. King scions chosen 

 from the typical orchard tree and set on 

 young Northern Spy trees gave fruit of 

 even size, fine color, and bore at an earlier 

 age. One tree for example yielded two 

 barrels of fruit at the age of eight years. 

 A Sutton Beauty tree, similiarly treated, 

 two years top grafted, gave two bushels of 

 fruit. 



The Kieffer pear had proved a good stock 

 for Anjou and Bosc. The union was per- 

 fect, and promised to endure well. Anjou 

 on Kieffer was much more productive than 

 ordinarily ; indeed the fruit needed to be 

 thinned to prevent overbearing. The Bosc 

 had succeeded almost equally well, and these 

 two he valued most highlv of all pears for 

 shipping purposes. 



Another important point emphasized bv 

 Mr. Powell was high tillage until July, to 

 be followed by cover crops such as Crimson 

 Clover, or Cow Peas, to be plowed under 

 the following spring. 



Mr. E. B. Edwards, of Peterboro, gave 

 an interesting account of the excellent re- 

 sults in securing fine crops of Blenheim 

 Orange apples as a results of tillage and 

 spraying under the direction of the Govern- 

 ment Superintendent of Spraying ; and A. 

 H. Pettit, of Grimsby, drew attention to the 

 damage done the fair name of Ontario by 

 allowed fraudulently packed apples to go 

 forward to the British market. The secre- 

 tary read a letter from President W. E. 

 Wellington, saying that he had visited Cov- 

 ent Garden Market, and was much chagrin- 

 ed at finding the disfavor into which Cana- 

 dian apples were falling owing to this evil 

 practice on the part of speculators. A 



strong resolution was passed by the Associ- 

 ation pressing upon the Dominion the ex- 

 treme importance of taking some action in 

 this matter, by appointing inspectors at 

 shipping ports with power to detect fraudu- 

 lent packing, and prevent its export or at 

 least erase false brands and fine the 

 offender. 



Prof. J. W. Robertson, of Ottawa, gave 

 a most valuable address on the " Com- 



FiG. 1726. Harold Jones, Maitland, 

 Originator of the Scai'let Pippin. 



merce in Large Fruits," showing good 

 success in 1899 in exporting pears. One 

 hundred and forty-five twenty-four pound 

 cases of especially fine Bartletts for example 

 had sold in Great Britain at $1.97 a case 

 netting the grower $1.54 a case. The 

 points required to ensure such prices were 

 prime quality, large size, and fine condition 

 on arrival. The best sizes were from two 

 and a half inches in diameter upward, such 

 as would require sixty or seventy pears to a 



