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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



Sons, of Connecticut, It is too small for 

 market, and inferior as a dessert g'rape to 

 Jessica, and yet the Bushburg- catalogue 

 gives nearly a column to it, and less than 

 an inch to the latter ; while the Jessica is not 

 even mentioned in the catalogue issued by 

 the American Pomological Society. 



We have had a remarkably fine showing 

 of grapes of all kinds at Maplehurst this 

 season. 



Moyer was the first to ripen, and was 

 quite delicious eating long before Early 

 Victor, Berckman, Ohio or Campbell's Early 

 were ready for use. This Moyer is another 

 that is valuable for a home garden, but pro- 

 bably not profitable for market, because of 

 its small berry and straggling bunch, but it is 

 a treat to get so pleasing a flavor so early 

 in August. The Moyer too is of Canadian 

 origin. 



SUCCESSFUL STORAGE OF APPLES. 



'HE following should prove interesting 

 to fruit growers and produce men 

 generally, as it proves again that 

 cold storage of fruit pays and pays well : 



For three years now we have placed Bald- 

 win apples in cold storage with remarkable 

 success. We refer to cold storage houses 

 worked by ammonia and machinery, such as 

 are built in large cities on scientific prin- 

 ciples. We pick our apples as soon as they 

 have matured, place them immediately in 

 barrels, and draw at once to the cold storage 

 house. The sooner they are put into cold 

 storage after being taken from the tree the 

 better ; when the apples have lain in barrels 

 for a week or two, they have not kept as 

 well as those moved at once to cold storage 

 house. We find that the apples shrink 

 some, and have to be run over before ship- 

 ment if held until the latter part of March. 

 Sometimes it has taken one barrel to fill out 

 the shrinkage of ten barrels. We often find 

 five or ten decayed apples in a barrel ot 

 Baldwins opened about April i. If the ap- 

 ples were held in barns a few weeks before 



putting in cold storage we might find a peck 

 or more of bad apples. Baldwins which we 

 put in cold storage, and which we could 

 have sold for $1.20 per barrel last fall, we 

 find no diflSculty in selling in large quantities 

 at $3 per barrel March 15. 



Our apples have been carefully graded, 

 and have pleased our customers wherever 

 they have gone. C. W. Jennings, a large 

 dealer in North Carolina, writes us that he 

 has bought many carloads of apples each 

 year, but that he has never seen such fine 

 apples as those we sold him ; he says the 

 quality and flavor and beauty are superior to 

 apples he has previously purchased, and yet 

 we do not consider our Baldwins of last year 

 up to the average size on account of the long 

 spell of dry weather. Our experience en- 

 courages us in placing long keeping winter 

 apples in cold storage. It is certainly pro- 

 fitable to do so. We pay 50 cents per bar- 

 rel for cold storage from November i to May 

 I. Bartlett pears can also be put in cold 

 storage with profit. — Greeii s Fruit Grower. 



