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Apple Reports from Great Britain state that the great storms which have 

 Tecently swept the British coast, have not only stripped the trees of their fruit, 

 but ruined many of the orchards. 



A frost on Sunday night the nth October, badly injured the grape crop 

 not yet gathered in the Niagara District. Some growers have lost tons of their 

 finest varieties. Evidently it pays to be forehanded with fruit gathering. 



Apples should be gathered earlier than is customary. Not only 

 does a large part waste by dropping through delay, but those hanging become 

 over ripe for keeping. We found it none too early to begin harvesting our 

 ■winter apples this season about the middle of September. 



Curious Freak. — Mr. J. H. Wismer, Port Elgin, sends us a cross section 

 of an apple which, on its exterior appears to be half a green apple and half a 

 red apple. The hne of division is clearly marked, and not only is the coloring 

 of each half quite distinct, but even the dots and other characteristics. Does 

 cross fertilization sometimes take effect upon the fruit as well as upon the seed ? 



Apples have done well enough in Great Britain this season, where 

 quality has been first-class. VVe shipped 59 bis. of Gravenstein, Fall Pippin, 

 Twenty Ounce, Wealthy, etc. Some of the Gravensteins' and Wealthy so'd at 

 17/6, and the whole lot netted us $1.50 per barrel. One hundred and fifty 

 barrels of Greenings shipped on the 19th September, sold, averaged 10 ' and 

 netted about $1. We expect to hear better reports of the colored varieties. 



" Europe Devouring America's Apples," is the heading of a column 

 of the New York Telegram. The article draws attention to the immense crop 

 of apples in the U. S. and Canada and the unprecedented quantities being sent 

 forward The shipment from all American ports up to date of about September 

 30, is 429.530 lbs., whereas to the same date last year the total was only 39,309, 

 an increase of about a thousand per cent. 



New Societies. — Now is the time for preliminary work. A public meet- 

 ing should be called — provisional officers appointed — and some one engaged 

 to canvas for new members. Fifty members are needed, and the final organiza- 

 tion must be complete soon after January ist. 



Mr. Thomas Bealle, one of our Directors, will visit any place where his 

 services are needed, free of charge, during the month of November, if applica. 

 tion is made to the Secretary of the Ontario Fruit Growers' Association, Grimsby. 

 He will thoroughly explain the working of such societies, and the proper method 

 of forming the same. 



