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prize fruits from which to order, all which advantages are lost if 

 nomenclature is disregarded. 



We have given these few hints for the benefit of such exhibitors 

 as are in the habit of finding much fault with the awarding of prizes, 

 hoping that a consideration of these few points may help them to a 

 more correct judgment. 



Wiser by Experience. — "Well, neighbor," says my friend Ignavus, 

 " liave you learned anything new this season about fridt packing f 



"Yes, two or three things. A fruit grower can hardly pass through 

 a season of practical work and learn nothing. I have learned (1) tliat 

 it pays to ship large and small specimens in separate packages, and 

 mark them accordingly. We know some appear to think the fine 

 specimens should all be saved for topping, and the small ones should 

 be used for filling up." 



Said Ignavus, " Of course I would not think of packing that way 

 for near markets, where I want to establish a reputation, but you know 

 I ship my poor stuff to a distant dty, well topped, and have it sold 

 without my name being attached." 



I say "Shame on such a sham kind of honesty;" don't you, brother 

 fruit growers of Canada ? 



Ignavtis adds, " Anyway the l^uyers expect such packing, so they 

 are Kot deceived." But is it any reason why we should be a set of 

 cheats because "buyers expect it ?" 



We therefore lay down another principle, viz : (2) It pays to he 

 Tionest, aside from principle, and aside from self-respect which 

 accompanies such a course. " Put conscience in your barrels," said a 

 buyer to one of our firm some five or six years ago, and w^e believe the 

 advice to be golden. At all events it was the means of bringing us an 

 offer from a Glasgow house that surprised neighbor Ignavus, it was so 

 much higher than was current. Only a few days before, he had been 

 watching our packing which was going on inside the fruit house. 

 "You make too many culls," said he, "it will never pay you; nobody 

 else thinks of such waste, and yet others get quite as good prices as 

 you do." I said I believed it would pay, and so it has proved. 



Another item to be laid upon memory's shelf is, that (3) it pays to 

 secure plenty of fruit pacj^ages long before you want to use them, for 

 it saves your time w^hen you are very busy; it saves your money, since 

 you can buy them early at a reduced price; it saves loss, for sometimes- 



