APPLE REPORTS. 



pruvemeut work should be submitted to business 

 men as a business proposition ; (3) that the hy- 

 gienic disposition of household waste is a para- 

 mount question that should be considered by^every 

 improvement organization ; (4) that bad conditions 

 in cities are the logical out-growth of bad con- 

 ditions in towns, villages and in the country, and 

 that these should be traced to their sources and 

 preventive and remedial measures instituted all 

 along the line; (5 that interested assistance is 

 likely to follow definite statements of bad con- 

 ditions if accompanied by a clear outline of prac- 

 tical means for overcoming them; f6i that twen- 

 tieth century intelligence, admitting that the 

 whole is greater than its parts, plans in a large 

 way before executing details ; (7; that large aims 

 and earnest work bring their own reward, and 

 lastly rS) that if one person present absorbs the 

 notion that it would be vastly fine to line every 

 approach to the home town with red bud. and wild 

 crab, and wahoo and invite the birds and the 

 squirrels to live in them and — goes home and does 

 it — your committee will feel that ' ' it has done 

 what it could." 



We wouid advise our Horticultural socie- 

 ties to correspond with Mr. W. H. Man- 

 ning", landscape architect, 11 46 Tremont 

 Building- Boston, who is secretary of this 

 Association, for terms on which each society 

 could become associated and receive the 

 reports. 



Ontario's triumph at the Pan-American 

 is indeed a matter for congratulation. "Our 

 display in fruit," said the Hon. John Dry- 

 den at the Horticultural Building one day 

 of the closing week of the Pan, " has been 

 a revelation to the Americans, and, in some 

 respects, to ourselves. Few Canadians un- 



understood, prior to this Exposition, the 

 great possibilities opened up by cold stor- 

 age in connection with fruit production. 

 Here are apples, of last year's crop, still in 

 perfect condition at a time when our winter 

 apples of this season's growth are already 

 matured. This means that apples which 

 have heretofore been sacrificed in the fall 

 can hereafter be held without loss in quality 

 until a fair market is obtained. Some fear 

 this will mean transferring the crop in the 

 fall from the hands of the producers to those 

 of speculators, and that dealers rather than 

 growers will thus reap the principal profit 

 on our staple fruit crop. But there is no 

 reason why this should be. The law pro- 

 vides a ready means for the establishment 

 of co-operative cold storage depots, and the 

 Provincial Treasury can even be drawn upon 

 to assist in construction of the same. 



" Our fruit display has also impressed 

 thousands and thousands of strangers with 

 the capabilities of our Province in this line. 

 The only mistake we made was not realizing 

 soon enough the advertising possibilities in 

 the Pan-American. We should have pre- 

 pared a year in advance for the work under- 

 taken. Even as it is, we have more than held 

 our own, and have convinced our friends 

 across the lines that we have both the quan- 

 tity and the quality in fruit. 



APPLE REPORTS. 



ESSRS. Woodall & Co.'s report, 

 .. ,, . dated Liverpool, October 19, is not 

 ^-^^^ very encouraging to shippers and 

 leads us to infer that better money can be 

 made by sales at home than abroad: 



The arrivals this season to date are 32,545 

 barrels, against 83,772 during the corres- 

 ponding period last year, and it would 

 appear that the crop is the smallest for some 

 time past. The prices realised so far, ex- 

 cept in a few instances, are anything but 



satisfactory ; and it is the same old story, 

 that early fruit mostly arrives in doubtful 

 condition, and, even if sound, does not show 

 sufficient superiority over the home crop — 

 which is marketed at this time — to command 

 remunerative prices. There has been an 

 enormous crop of stone fruit, which inter- 

 fered with the demand for apples. The 

 results are, no doubt, disappointing, but 

 only what was to be expected, and it is no 

 criterion as to what really good sound winter 



