April, 1922 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



101 



! CROPS and MARKETS ! 



Standardizing Varieties 



To the Editor: The article entitled 

 "Fruit Grading Problems," February 

 issue, was very Interesting. It seems 

 to me that there is but one way of solving 

 the troublesome problem of standardization. 

 But this will take several years. I believe 

 that Prof. Crow gives a hint of its solution 

 in the subtitle of the said article, "Market- 

 ing Begins at Planting." 



The growers of Oregon and "Washington 

 are solving this problem, if they have not 

 already solved it, by planting only the var- 

 ieties that eminently succeed in those reg- 

 ions. But in all other regions where fruit 

 Is commercially grown, the planting is 

 haphazard; and too often traditional senti- 

 ment predominates in the choice of varie- 

 ties. 



I believe that the planting of a few varie- 

 ties in a district where such varieties are 

 successful will in time solve the problem. 

 Charles W. Mann, who is an up-to-date or- 

 -chardist of Massachusetts, and who is now 

 president of the Massachusetts Fruit Grow- 

 ers' Association, was recently asked: "If you 

 ■were to plant an orchard to-day what varie- 

 ties would you plant?" And he quickly 

 answered: "Baldwins for main crop." This 

 man has learned that, owing to climate or 

 other conditions, he can grow Baldwins to 

 perfection. He has also learned that It 

 would be more than unwise to try to com- 

 pete with those western states by attempt- 

 ing to grow Delicious or Stayman Winesap. 



It has been sufficiently demonstrated that 

 the seedlings of the old Canadian Fameuse 

 are eminently successful in the northeastern 

 regions. Let the growers of those regions 

 grow the Mcintosh and others of its kind 

 for the general market. 



But this will be a work of patient educa- 

 tion. Mr. Macoun and other pomologists of 

 Canada are doing a wonderful work. And 

 when these men have gone the length and 

 breadth of the fruit districts of the country, 

 recommending and urging the planting of 

 varieties that succeed in given districts for 

 commercial purposes, an encouraging be- 

 ginning will have always been made in a 

 workable standardization. 



There will always be fruit growers who 

 prefer to cater to a local trade, and such a 

 trade may have peculiar local requirements. 

 But we are now discussing the subject in a 

 broaded sense. Prof. P. C. Sears, of Am- 

 herst, Mass., is an advocate of standardiza- 

 tion. Yet because their trade is a local one, 

 he and his associates grow several varieties 

 that ripen successively through a long 

 period. This not only meets a peculiar lo- 

 cal demand, but it also helps in the solution 

 of the labor problem. I believe, however, 

 that If these men had a market such as we 

 are now discussing, they would soon plant 

 the varieties that would best meet those 

 requirements. — Louis Gr^ton, Whitman, 

 Mass. 



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 minion Fruit Conference. If we would ex- 

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