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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST, 



Reds are nearly all good in form, but where 

 lacking" in color have turned black, and the 

 fungous spotting appears to affect this variety 

 worse than Spy in inducing decay. Bell- 

 flowers were all gone. Spitzenburg well 

 colored and without bruise has kept well, 

 but where stem was removed in picking rot 

 ensued from that part. Seek should have 

 been picked sooner, I fancy, and only a few 

 specimens were fit for the tables. Golden 

 Russet kept well where the sample showed 

 full maturity in size and coloring, but those 

 from unpruned trees where the sun did not 

 reach them and left them at picking perfectly 

 green were worthless. Roxbury gave the 

 same evidence, as did also Pomme Grise and 

 Swazie. Nonpariel was generally well up 

 in its bright cinnamon color and samples 

 good. Greening did not afford us a sample 

 for the tables and Grimes shared the same 

 fate. Why was this ? I think the want of 

 proper cultivation and manuring chiefly as all 

 the samples were under size. 



From all I have seen to me it is evident 

 that more care must be taken in studying 

 just when a variety is properly matured and 

 ready for picking instead of the present 

 method of picking " in the fall" generally. 



Evidently a King should be picked some 

 time before a Baldwin. We had not a 

 specimen of Ribston because they were 

 picked likely too late; they were more than 

 mature and decay, or its primary elements 

 had set in. Tallman was tall starved speci- 

 mens and quite unfit for use. Wagener was 

 in the same position, with the exception 

 that where a good colored cheek appeared 

 it was still bright. 



Let growers draw a moral from these 

 facts and we will hear them universally cry- 

 ing out, *' cultivate, manure, trim and 

 generally care for the orchard if you want 

 good fruit." Study the season of maturing 

 in each variety for this is all important when 

 picking time comes. 



Spy held as tenaciously to flavor as any 

 variety in the list, while Ben Davis is, 

 judging from what we have here, one of the 

 most disappointing, for even where the 

 specimen is outwardly perfect in form and 

 color, when opened it is flavorless and often 

 becoming dry and " punky," but then we 

 must remember that it never was blessed 

 with much flavor. 



Wolverhampton. Eng. , 

 July 28th, 1902. 



THE FEUIT CEOP IN ENGLAND 



The reports of a large receiver of fruit in 

 England on the fruit situation, there "is as 

 follows : 



" The fruit crop here (England) is worse 

 than it has been for years past, and although 

 there may be a fair quantity of early apples 

 there is not likely to be a quantity of suffi- 

 cient importance to affect the sale of Canadian 

 apples." 



Mr. W. A. McKinnon, chief of the fruit 



division, who is in England at the present 

 time investigating the question of markets 

 and transportation in the interests of the 

 fruit trade, reports that he has received a 

 cordial reception and has been able to ex- 

 amine several lots of fruit from California 

 and other foreign countries as they have left 

 the steamship. His report will be awaited 

 with great interest by the fruit growers of 

 Ontario. 



