THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



Fig, 1589.— Extra Selected'! Apples From Wrecked Str. Oastiliau. 



will find that they will average 2^ 

 and over, while Spy often reaches 3^ 

 to 4 inches, and would deserve to be 

 marked Extra No. i. If preferred, 

 however, grade marks and size marks 

 might be separately indicated on each 

 barrel. 



Mr. Chas. E. Brown, writes : 



It is now probably twenty years since we 

 began to import Ontario apples to supply the 

 local market ; latterly, one or more car loads 

 came every fall, via Boston, at the low 

 through freight rate of sixty cents per barrel 

 Occasionally, there would be a few barrels in 

 a car load that failed to come up to the stan- 

 dard of No. 1, but on the whole, we got to 

 feel confidence in Ontario Fruit Growers, 

 Packers and Shippers, that a barrel of apples 

 marked Extra, Fancy, or No. 1, meant a 

 quality of fruit that the buyer would have 

 no cause to complain of. This contidence has 

 however betn recently sadly shaken, and 

 hereafter in Yarmouth, it will not be enough 

 to say to a prospective buyer that his barrel 

 of apples was exported from Ontario, grown 



or put up by — and marked XXX or 



Extra Extra Extra. I enclose a slip from 

 yesterday's local paper, and I send you in a 

 small box a few specimens from a barrel of 

 Phoenix apples that I bought myself, in con- 

 firmation of the statement made. 



. Extract from, Yarmouth Herald. 



Some years ago complaints were made 

 frequent and often, of the dishonest packing 

 of apples by the growers of the Annapolis 

 Valley, but we are pleased to note that for 

 the past two years these complaints have 

 been few, and, in fact have almost entirely 

 ceased, so far as we can ascertain. 



There were on board the wrecked Caxtilian 

 some 6,500 barrels of Ontario apples. Many 

 of these have been saved and sold at auction. 

 In several instances the fruit has proved first- 

 class in every respect, and of even size all 

 through. But we regret to state that many 

 barrels have been of the most inferior kind. 

 One or two of the top layers look fine, but 

 after these have been removed the remainder 

 have turned out to be scrubs, and the size as 

 small or smaller than crab apples. They are 

 totally unfit for table use, and would hardly 

 pay to gather to feed to pigs. 



We are surprised to know that such dis- 



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