THE CANADIAN' HORTICULTURIST. 4") 



fresh meat ? If" tliirty years ago, at a meeting of intelligent Canadian 

 farmers, some one had predicted that in 1878 Ontario would ship half 

 a million dollars worth of fresh meat to England, he would liave been 

 laughed at, and set down by some as a fit sul)ject for a lunatic asylum ; 

 and yet such I believe has been done in the fresh meat trade of our 

 country. And for my part, I see no reason why we should not have 

 steamers fitted up for carrying beautiful, blushing, bright Benoni, 

 Early Strawberry, Dora, and Gravenstein apples to Europe ; and were 

 I a young man I would not wish for a better speculation than planting 

 fifty acres of land with the above named four varieties of apples. I 

 vspeak from an experience of over twenty years, wdien I say that I 

 always make more out of my early apples than my late ones. Not 

 that I would advise any farmer who has a large quantity of grain to 

 harvest to plant more than two or three trees of each of the above 

 named early apples, unless he is prepared to plant quite a number, and 

 then to look out for a market for them before they are ripe, and also to 

 see that they are properly picked, and barreled at the proper time. 



The following are my twenty varieties, placed in their order of 

 merit : 



Benoni, Early Strawberry, Wagner, Swayzie Pomme Grise, Beauty, 

 Gravenstein, Ontario, Fameuse, Dora, Golden Russet, Eed Astracan, 

 Lady Apple, Spitzenberg, Moyle, Melon, Cox's Orange Pippin, Roxbury 

 Eusset, Pomme Eoyal, Ella, Northern Spy, Baldwin. 



Linus "VVoolverton would prefer the following : 



Benoni, Early Harvest, Sweet Bough, Eed Astracan, Fall Pippin, 

 Duchess of Oldenburg, Gravenstein, King of Tompkins Co., Lady Apple, 

 Swayzie Pomme Grise, Golden Sweet, Esopus Spitzenberg, Fameuse, 

 Baldwin, Greening, Golden Eusset, Swaar, Northern Spy, Mann, Eibston 

 Pippin. ft 



A. H. Pettit, Grimsby, named the Early Harvest, Eed Astracan, 

 Gravenstein, Duchess of Oldenburg, King of Tompkins Co., Fall 

 Pippin, Fameuse, Newton Pippin, Northern Spy, Bahlwin, Swaar, 

 R. L Greening, Wagner, Swayzie Pomme Grise, Cayuga Eed Streak, 

 Lady Apple, Eoxbury Eusset, Golden Eusset, Esopus Spitzenberg, 

 Talman Sweet. 



Jesse C. Moyer, Jordan Station, gave the following : 



Early Harvest, Eed Astracan, Duchess of Oldenburg, Chenango 

 Strawberry, St. Lawrence, Gravenstein, Twenty Oz. (Cayuga Eed), 



