THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



case. They must be picked at the right 

 time, just when the seed is turning brown, 

 never while it is still green. 



For apples, even fancy summer varieties, 

 a case holding 40 or 50 lbs. is best. A No. 

 I stock, wrapped and packed in 40 lb. cases 

 sold at from 7 to 9 shillings per bushel ; but 

 the British markets have no demand for 

 small apples. 



Another important point is to have large 

 lots of one sort and one grade for best 



Fig. 1727. W. W. Dunlop, Outremont, 

 Sec. Que. Poml. Soc. 



results. Canadian shippers forward too 

 many varieties in a shipment to get bids 

 from the best buyers. The growers should 

 forward only large, sound apples uniform in 

 size in each package, and these only. The 

 second-class stuff and smalls must be other- 

 wise disposed of ; it had better be consigned 

 to the manure heap than shipped, and more 

 money would come back to the country for 

 the selected portion than for the whole. 



The cold storage facilities for fruit on 

 steamships are likely to be improved so as 



to provide small compartments holding two 

 or three carloads each. Better ventilation 

 of holds for apple storage in 1900 is also 

 promised, but all these provisions will be 

 unavailing unless it is someone's business to 

 look after them at time of loading. With 

 care, skill and honesty, ultimate success in 

 the export of fruit is assured. 



For success there should be established a 

 standard of ( i ) sizes, (2) of form, and (3) 

 of variety ; the name of both packer and 

 grower should be placed on every package 

 in order that the grower might be informed 

 in case a packer or shipper put up his fruit 

 fraudulently. Of course the packer alone 

 would bear the blame and suffer loss in such 

 a case, but it would serve a good purpose to 

 have all this information on the package. 

 The punishment for use of false brands 

 might be confiscation of goods so put up, or 

 at least removal of the grade marks and an 

 exposure of the offender. 



The San Jose Scale question was up for 

 discussion, being introduced by Mr. M. 

 Pettit, of Winona, and the vigorous action 

 that has been taken by the Provincial 

 Department of Agriculture in endeavoring 

 to stamp out the pest, high eulogised. 

 A resolution was passed favoring permis- 

 sion to treat moderately infested trees with 

 whale oil soap, crude petroleum or fumiga- 

 tion, under the direction of an inspector. 



Dr. Saunders, director of the Dominion 

 Experimental Farms, addressed the meeting 

 on New Hardy Hybrid Apples in Manitoba, 

 showing some wonderful results obtained 

 by crossing Pyrus baccata with Duchess 

 and with Tetofsky. The Doctor has long 

 been foremost of horticultural experts in 

 Canada in this important field of producing 

 new varieties of fruits by hybridization, and 

 results of his work may be expected which 

 will be of inestimable value to our North 

 West. The Doctor also spoke on our 

 Ontario fruits in Manitoba, showing what 

 an excellent market was opening up for us, 



