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No. 3. — Flums, apples, pears, grapes and small fruits. Located in Huron 

 Co., experimenter not chosen. 



No. 4. — Grapes, currants, gooseberries, plums, pears, cherries and black- 

 berries. Located in Wentworth Co., and managed by Mr. M. Pettit, Winona. 



No. 5. — Peaches ana strawberries, currants, cherries, gooseberries, rasp- 

 berries, plums and quinces. Located in Essex Co., and managed by Mr. W. 

 W. Hillborn, Leamington. 



N. B. — The fruits italicised are those to which the station is to be more 

 particularly devoted. 



ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE FOR 1 894. 



Five stations at $ioo $500 



Trees, plants, etc., for five stations 200 



Meetings of Board of Control . . . . , , 75 



Travelling expenses of official visitors 75 



Clerical work — corresponding with stations, purchasing 

 stock, keeping lists and reports from each, tabulating 



same 50 



Contingent fund 100 



$1,000 



Buying and Exporting Apples. — The Canadian Fruit Buyers' and 

 Importers' Association has issued a circular giving the names of those apples 

 which are found by practical experience best suited to the export trade. The 

 following is a portion of the circular referred to : — 



"It is absolutely necessary to improve the quality of our fruit if we are to 

 hold our own in the foreign markets. The prevalent idea that European 

 countries are unable to produce good winter apples is a mistaken one, they are 

 producing, and in rapidly increasing quantities, fruit that is as good as many of 

 our best winter varieties, and far superior in every respect to such kinds as the 

 Phoenix, Pewaukee, Talman Sweet and others. This is notably the case in 

 Denmark, Belgium, Holland, and parts of Germany and France. Growers in 

 these countries are now becoming as much alive to the importance of this 

 branch of their export trade as we are. Heretofore they have not marketed 

 their apples in as good shape comparatively as Canadians — this will be obviated 

 in the future, as a number of large Continental handlers of fruit visited the 

 British markets last autumn, for the purpose of finding out the best kind of 

 package, and the proper mode of packing the fruit to suit the demand. For 

 some years past they have been planting and grafting, especially in Denmark, 

 only those kinds of fruit which compare favorably with our best varieties, such 

 as the Northern Spy, Greening, Seek, Baldwin, Golden Russet, etc. We cannot 

 ignore these facts if we desire to hold our own in the foreign markets. It is 



