December, 1914 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



fruit, the market house being controlled by 

 the municipality; the fruit must be disposed 

 of by the importers to dealers by direct sale. 

 Locally grown apples are most plentiful in 

 market during January, February and 

 March; hence the advantage of the imported 

 fruit being shipped in time to arrive here 

 before the South African fruit is marketed. 



Under no consideration is it advisable to 

 send apples or pears to siiipping ports ex- 

 cept in refrigerator cars. There is a good 

 refrigerator service from Cape Town and 

 other South African ports to Johannesburg 

 for fruit shipments, but it is regarded as es- 

 sential to have the fruit landed at Cape 

 Town, the first port of shipment to the in- 

 terior points, as, owing to the hot weather 

 prevailing at the East Coast ports, fruit is 

 liable to deteriorate very quickly. 



If American firms ship the right class of 

 goods in accordance with these directions 

 and at the time mentioned, importers state 

 that they can be sure of getting better re- 

 sults in this country than in almost any 

 other foreign market. At least twenty- 

 eight thousand boxes of imported apples 

 found a market in JohannesDurg last sea- 

 son, the majority of these being imported 

 from Australia. 



Pears are usually required in one-half 

 boxes, these having proved to be the most 

 successful sellers. The varieties mostly in 

 demand are Winter-Nellis, Gloutmorseau 

 and Howells. The usual terms granted to 

 purchasers are thirty days. 



Of all the Australian states. New South 

 Wales and Tasmania only are enforcing 

 legislation with respect to the size of cases 

 in which imiwrted and locally grown fruit 

 is to be sold. While an Act has been passed 

 in Queensland, the regulations have not 

 yet been proclaimed, hence Canadian ap- 

 ples packed in the standard Canadian case 

 can, so far as the 1914 season is concerned, 

 be shipped to that state without restriction. 

 In Victoria, South Australia and Western 

 Australia no state laws have yet been en- 

 acted regulating the size of cases in which 

 apples or other fruit are to be sold. As 

 Sydney is the terminal port of the Cana- 

 dian-Australasian steamers, it is obvious 

 that New South Wales is the principal mar- 

 ket in Australia for Canadian apples land- 

 ed during the months of October to Decem- 

 ber each year. Represeatations were made 

 to the Department of Agriculture of New 

 South Wales that the Canadian apple case, 

 packed with a crown on the top side of the 

 case, contained more fruit than it is, in 

 the ordinary Australian packing, possible 

 to place in the New South Wales case, and 

 request was made for the suspension of the 

 regulations in so far as they affected Can- 

 adian exports until the season of 1915. The 

 reply has been to the effect that the Fruit 

 Cases .'^ct specifically provides that when 

 fruit is sold in a case within New South 

 Wales it shall be of a size, measurement, 

 and capacity specified in the regulations, 

 and, as the Canadian standard apple case 

 does not conform with the regulations, the 

 sale of fruit in such a case cannot legally 

 be permitted. 



The difference between the two standard 

 cases is as follows : 



Canadian apple case.. . .10x11x20 ins. inside 

 New South Wales apple 



case 10x11^x20 ins. inside 



The New South Wales cases vary in size, 

 but the popular case (as above) has a capa- 

 city of not less than one Imperial bushel, 

 .and its cubic contents are 2,225 inches, or 

 25 cubic inches larger than the Canadian. 

 As the New South Wales Act came into 

 force on July 1, 1914, it will be necessary 

 for British Columbia exporters of apples 

 and pears for sale im New South Wales to 

 ship fruit in cases of the prescribed s.izes. 



PINK BEAUTY GLADIOLI 



i.H the earliest of all. It is a lon^ time till 

 Gladioli bloom outside. You can shorten the 

 time by planting Pink Beauty. It is not in 

 the America class, but it has the "Award of 

 Merit," Haarlern, 1909. "Award of Merit." 

 Amsterdam, 1910. "First Class Certificate." 

 Scottish Horticultural A.S8oeiation. Edinburgh, 

 1910, "First. Class Certificate." Royal Caledon- 

 ian Hort. Society, 1910. "Certificate," National 

 Gladioli Society, London, 1912. 



Price $1.00 per 100 Express Collect. 

 In November advertisement "Hulst" should 

 bo "Baron Hnlst." 



H. P. VAN WAGNER, R.R. No. 5, HAMILTON, Onf. 



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