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much encouragement. The Wealthy, Red Mcintosh, and Winter St. Lawrence 

 were highly appreciated. Their deep, rich color pleased the buyers. The best 

 way of finding out the state in which the fruit arrives in England is to have 

 agents there to watch the arrival of our apples. 



The Wealthy and the Winter St. Lawrence, which I sent to my brother, in 

 England, via London, about the ist October, not only reached him in perfect 

 order, but on the 7th December, when he wrote to me, were as firm and crisp as 

 need be. This shows clearly the excellence of the compartment-box for pack- 

 ing this kind of fruit. 



If the boxes are filled in the orchard, and the fruit carefully handled, it 

 cannot be bruised or injured unless the boxes are flung about or smashed. I 

 must say that, during the last ten years, great improvement is visible in the way 

 boxes are dealt with aboard ship. For more than three years I have had no 

 complaint to make. The boxes weigh about 65 to 70 lbs. when full. They 

 can easily be carried by putting the fingers into the slits at each end of the box. 



Last year, I sent a good many empty boxes of this kind to orchardists in 

 Nova Scotia, who wished to try them for exporting their famous Gravensteins. 

 I hear they answered perfectly. Of course, the apples whose flesh is firm and 

 hard enough to stand the voyage when packed in barrels, cost less to send, and 

 most of these apples will for many years continue to be sent in this way. 



The Tasmanian apples, which are sold in great quantities in spring and 

 summer, are sent in long boxes, each apple wrapped in paper : and yet this 

 fruit, that has several thousand more miles to travel than our Canada apples, 

 reaches England in perfect condition. 



If we Canadian fruit-growers study the demands of the English market as 

 earnestly as our exporters of butter and cheese have done, we shall soon see 

 that it is absolutely necessary that our fruit should reach England without 

 bruises or any other injuries. 



R. W. Sheppard, Jr., Montreal. 



PPOfessOP Troup, of the Indiana Experiment Station, writes in the North 

 American Horticulturist that sixty-seven trees of Missouri Mammoth q-uinces 

 near Indianapolis, and ten years old from the graft, yielded last year 140 bushels 

 of the finest selected fruit. Quinces of this variety are said to ripen ten days 

 earlier than Orange quinces ; they are much larger, of firmer texture and quite 

 as highly flavored. Professor Troup adds that the failure of a quince-tree to 

 produce a good yield is more often due to neglect than to any deficiency of 

 .soil or severity of climate. 



