Afril, 1922 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



97 



spicuous dots and color of its fruit. Some- 

 times it has a rather dull appearance, but 

 it may attain a bright and attractive, though 

 dark red, color. The quality is fairly good. 

 It will not bear rough handling, and is suit- 

 able rather for local markets than for ship- 

 ping long distances. The tree shows a 

 rather weak development of roots in the 

 nursery, but in the orchard becomes mod- 

 erately vigorous and generally quite pro- 

 ductive. It has proved very hardy in North- 

 ern New York, and is recommended for 

 planting for home use and local markets in 

 that section and in the more elevated re- 

 gions of the State, where varieties of the 

 grade of hardiness of Baldwin are apt to 

 show winter injury. In such localities some 

 prefer to grow it on warm soil or sod, to 

 favor the development of better color. It 

 is locally profitable. It is healthy, long- 

 lived and a reliable cropper, usually comes 

 into bearing rather young and bears an- 

 nually. There is apt to be considerable 

 loss from dropping of the fruit. 



" 'Flesh — Yellowish, firm, coarse, crisp, 

 moderately tender, moderately juicy, mild 

 subacid, fair to good. Season — November 

 to mid-winter, or possibly March. Uses. — 

 Baking, dessert and local market.' 



"W. T. Macoun, Dominion Horticulturist, 

 in his description of this variety, lists the 

 tree as a strong grower. He gives the 

 season of the fruit as mid to late winter, 

 lUd describes the flesh as whitish with 

 traces of pink, juicy, mildly subacid; core 

 of medium size; quality good." 



Apple Experiments in N.S. 



INTERESTING and valuable experiments 

 with English varieties of apples are be- 

 ing made at the Dominion Experimental 

 Station at Kentville, N.S. As a large pro- 

 portion of the Nova Scotia crop crosses the 

 sea, it is, of course, important that varieties 

 should be grown that best suit the British 

 consumer. As a matter of fact, some of the 

 best apples cultivated in the Annapolis 

 Valley are of British and European origin, 

 -such as Blenheim, Ribston and Gravenstein, 

 all well known in the British Isles. Out of 

 the large collection of varieties at Kentville 

 it is hoped a few others may prove to be 

 well adapted to the Maritime , Provinces. 

 Some samples shown at a meeting of the 

 Araorican Pomological Society in Columbus, 

 Ohio, attracted much favorable attention. 



An outstanding feature of tests at Kent- 

 ville with orchard fertilizers is that nitrate 

 ■of soda should be used with care, as other- 

 wise there is danger of the trees growing 

 too late in the season and being winter- 

 aipped. 



Outlook in Nova Scotia 



IN discus.sing some of the factors that 

 spppiod to assure continued prosperity 

 for the fruit industry of Nova Scotia, 

 President Manning Ells, of the N.S. F.G.A., 

 whose addross at the recent convention 

 was read by Secretary Prank Foster, 

 thought that one of the greatest was the 

 continued downward curve of production all 

 •over America, and this in the face of greater 

 consumption and increased demand. 



"The largest crop of apples ever pro- 

 'iuced in America was in 1896 — over 25 

 ■.pars ago," the address pointed out. "Dur- 

 ing that 2.5 years, the crop in Nova Scotia 

 h.is shown a good steady growth, although 

 lor 10 years we have re.sted on our oars 

 IS far as new planting is concerned. Since 

 1910, tho United States has shown a decline 

 <n acreage of about 65,000,000 trees. On- 

 tario and Quebec are to-day barely growing 

 enough apples to supply their own local 



markets in an average crop year, and only 

 in British Columbia, besides Nova Scotia, 

 has there been a large increase in pro- 

 duction. If these figures mean' anything, 

 they mean that for a good many years to 

 come we can look forward with confidence 

 to eager markets and profitable production. 

 "Another factor that I have never heard 

 spoken of, but to my mind is of fundament- 

 ally great importance. Is the changed mar- 

 keting and monitory conditions in Great 

 Britain, brought about during the Great 

 War. in the years preceding 1917 we grew 

 our produce in a country of high values 

 and sold it in a market of low values. In 

 other words, the dollar in Canada meant 

 very much less in terms of what it would 

 buy than its nominal equivalent, four shil- 

 lings, in England. To-day this condition 

 if not on a reversed basis is at least on 

 a parietary. The English market will to- 

 day pay from thirty to fifty shillings for a 

 barrel of apples as readily as it would pay 

 fifteen to twenty shillings before the war. 

 This ratio of values, I believe, will con- 

 tinue. England will never return to pre- 



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