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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



The United States will make a fine apple 

 exhibit at Paris. About 2500 barrels of ap- 

 ples have been sent forward, all the samples 

 double wrapped, first with parchment butter 

 paper, then with reg-ular fruit wrappers, 

 made of Manilla tissue. 



Peaches in Georgia. — The Hale peach 

 orchard in Georgia has about 300,000 trees; 

 one block of 60,000 Elbertas is the heaviest 

 loaded of all. , Mr. Hale estimates that 8000 

 car loads of peaches will be shipped out of 

 Georgia this year. 



Grapes. — The Dominion Government will 

 not undertake the export of Canadian grapes, 

 but the Hon. John Dryden has given us 

 some assurance that he will forward several 

 car loads during the season purely for ex- 

 periment. 



Mr. Walter Stark, English manager of 

 the Imperial Produce Co., at Liverpool, who 



made a success of the export of our dairy 

 products, called on the 12th ult. He showed 

 us a new patent glass jar for our cherries, 

 peaches and plums, which he thought would 

 be the right thing to use in packing for the 

 English market. The processing would be 

 exceedingly simple, and the goods properly 

 put up and labelled would take the prece- 

 dence of tin packages at once. 



The York Imperial apple, which has been 

 so highly spoken of in some journals recent- 

 ly as a good export apple, is hardly criti- 

 cised by Bell in R. N. Y. in the following 

 terms : 



York Imperial seems to be more sensitive to 

 curculio and other insects causing deformities in 

 the fruit, than any other apple we have. There 

 were no perfect specimens among them, while the 

 Springdale apples, not far from them, were nearly 

 all smooth. York Imperial seems to have a very 

 tender thin skin, very much subject to scald too. 

 We do not care for it either as dessert or cooking 

 apple, the flavor is not to our taste. 



