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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



PROFITABLE MARKET APPLES. 



^SS^EcSZ^HIS was one of the questions in debate at the recent meeting of 

 the Western New York Horticultural Society. The irrepressible 

 Ben Davis came forward as usual, and its great productiveness, 

 its freedom from scab, and good appearance amplified by its 

 friends ; while others condemned it on account of its poor 

 quality, and claimed that in a few years it would have to give 

 place to some variety of better quality. The old story, fought over just as it so 

 often is at our own meetings in Ontario. 



The writer conveyed the greetings of the Ontario Association, and gave his 

 experience in shipping Cranberry Pippins to Australia during the past season. 

 He claimed the apple was superior both in appearance and in quality to the 

 Ben Davis, but, of course, by no means good enough in quality to be recom- 

 mended as the ideal apple for the commercial orchard. Our Mr. Morris, called 

 attention to the excellence of the Ontario^ as being an ideal apple in many 

 respects, while some New Yorkers commended the Sutton Beauty, as the most 

 excellent apple for market purposes. 



It was Mr. Van Deman, U. S. ex-Pomologist, who mentioned the York Im- 

 perial as the most desirable of market apples. The Ben Davis, he said, should 

 not be grown outside of the Mississippi Valley, where it was at home, and 

 attained its highest excellence. He condemned the Stark because of its dull 

 color, while Lawver and Gano were not needed at all. In Chicago York 

 Imperial was now quoted at $4.50 per barrel, and Ben Davis at $2.50. He 

 believed the York Imperial would stand second only to the Newtown Pippin in 

 the British market. 



Fig. 917. --Cross Section York Imperial. 



