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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



January, 191 1 



Revised Apple Rating 



A number of important recommenda- 

 tions were made by the Canadian Ai>pl(' 

 Growers who met in Vancouver, B.C., 

 under the chairmanship cf Mr. Maxwell 

 Smith, during the First Canadian Nation- 

 al Show. It was recommended that the 

 meeting of the Pomclojripal Society of 

 America should appoint a committee to 

 revise the rating for apples, making it a 

 double rating consisting cf quality and 

 commercial value. It was also recommend- 

 ed that each district having a local pomo- 

 logical society be _requested to make re- 

 commendations to the parent body in re- 

 gard to the particular product cf the dis- 

 trict so that the Pomological Society would 

 have the necessary data to assist them in 

 the work of revision 



The last recommendatin was to the effect 

 that the rating of apples be revised as 

 foUcws : Macintosh Reds from 5.6 to 8.9 ; 

 Winesaps from 7.8 to 9 ; Spies from 8.9 to 

 10; and Baldwins from 5.0 to 6.6; the 

 maximum to remain at 10. These recom- 

 mendations, which were unanimusly adopt- 

 ed, were brought forward by a committee, 

 consisting of Prcfessors Howe and Newell, 

 and Mr. Martin Burrell, M.P., all judges 

 at the Aople Show, and who had been ap- 

 pointed for the purpose. 



CATTSE FOR CHANGE 



The chairman pointed out that during 

 the twelve years since the rules of the 

 society were adopted, many changes had 

 taken place in the cultivation of the 

 apple. Many new varieties had been suc- 

 cessfully produced while many of the 

 elder species had been improved out of all 

 recognition. He gave it as his personal 

 opinion that the apple should now be grad- 

 ed only upon the degree of perfection to 

 which it could be grown in any given dis- 

 trict. That, he thought, was the only way 

 in which tc encourage the friiit growers 

 to produce the varieties which their cli- 

 matic environment enabled them to pro- 

 duce in the highest degee. If a certain 

 apple could be grown to better advantage 

 in British Columbia than in Nova Scotia 



then be thought that that particular apple 

 should be rated upon the standard of ex- 

 cellence reached in this province and not 



claimed as an infericr quality because its 

 cultivation was not successful in other 

 parts. 



Ncv^ Brunsw^ick Apple Show 



Prof. J. W, Crow, O. A. C , Guelph, Ont. 



THE east is being rediscovered. "I 

 am clearing timber from my farm 

 and planting apple trees on land 

 which fifty years ago was growing 

 hay and grain." This interesting state- 

 ment was made by Mr. C. N. Vroom, of 

 St. Stephen, President of the New Bruns- 

 wick Fruit Growers' Association. The 

 conditions mentioned are not, of course, 

 prevalent over lage areas of New Bruns- 

 wick, but President Vroom's statement 

 throws, nevertheless, a good deal of light 

 on the present agriculttiral condition of 

 that deserted province. 



New Brunswick has every natural advan- 

 tage which could be mentioned and lacks 

 only the people, without whom develop- 

 ment cannot be made. Land for fruit 

 growing purposes is available at prices 

 ranging from $10 to $50 per acre, and is 

 quite unlike the land of the eastern states, 

 such as Massachu.setts, in that it has net 

 been exhausted by continuous cropping. 

 New Brunswick land, comparatively speak- 

 ing, is good, and is still capable of pro- 

 ducing excellent crops of potatoes, hay, 

 grain, apples, and similar crops. So far 

 as the abilit.v to oroduce fruit of high 

 quality is concerned, the recent splendid 

 exhibition in St. John, N.B., has demon- 

 strated that New Brunswick has the cli- 

 mate as well as the soil. 



Kew Brunswicker is apparently identi- 

 cal in every respect with Duchess, but it 

 is said positively to have sprung from a 

 seed of that varietv on the farm of the 

 late Mr. Frank Sharpe. Dudley's Winter 

 is a variety which would seem tc be of 

 particular value to Ontario planters. It 

 ripens with Wealthy, is above medium in 

 size, good to very good in quality, and 

 most attractively colored. The tree is 



hardv and productive and the fruit with- 

 stands handling as well as any variety of 

 its season. Bethel is a dark red winter 

 apple of fair quality, and is probably the 

 hardiest good winter apple we have. 



Other varieties which were in evidence 

 in considerable quantities, but which are 

 not recommended for commercial planting, 

 were Golden Ru.sset, King, Spy, Green- 

 ing, Baldwin, Bishop Pippin (Bellflower), 

 Tolman Sweet, Ben Davis, Gravenstein, 

 Ribston and Blenheim. 



New Brunswick fruit growers claim to 

 have the be.st facilities for reaching the 

 British market of any point in Canada. 

 They are, of course, geographically much 

 nearer Great Britain than is Ontario, but 

 it must be borne in mind that until the 

 middle of November the better class of 

 fruit carrving vessels sail from Montreal. 

 .\fter navigation clo.ses in the St. Law- 

 rence, St. John is their winter port, and 

 so far as winter conditions are concerned 

 their claim is well founded. St. John has 

 a splendidlv equipped cold-storage plant, 

 and this will iirobably be made use of by 

 New Brunswick and Nova Scotia fruit 

 growers and will be of great assistance in 

 regulating shipments to the Old Country. 



Considerable quantities of Ontario frnit 

 have been stored in St. John at various 

 times but this season en account of the 

 light crops in Ontario and in the east as 

 well, there are no apples in storage at that 

 point. 



New Brunswick and Nova Scotia expect 

 in a few years' time to have the British 

 market very largely to themselves. They 

 are looking to the time when Ontario and 

 Western Canada will consume the greater 

 portion of the crop produced in Ontario 

 and British Columbia. 



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