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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



the table for a long time^ and is an attrac- 

 tive feature. 



The prime consideration, it seems to me, 

 in the business of furnishing fine fruits for 

 the people who depend upon the market for 

 their product is good quality. Having per- 

 fected this type, then look after its produc- 

 tiveness and its adaptibility to a wide range 

 conditions, but always demand a sum that 

 will cover added expenses, and support the 

 demand with the fact that the quality of the 

 fruit warrants it. There is another point 

 that I would like to make in connection with 

 fruit culture, and it will not appeal to exten- 

 sive orchardists. There are a great many 

 small growers who are willing to put time 

 and care mto the growing of a high quality 

 of fruit if in their limited marketing they can 

 find a demand for these high grade fruits at 

 a price that will warrant them in the added 

 expense of growing. In this field there is 

 opportunity for the highest intelligence in 

 fruit growing, and it has attractions that 

 cannot be found in a more extensive busi- 



ness. There is opportunity here for a re- 

 munerative business, and one that will give 

 the keenest satisfaction. A friend of mine 

 riding with me the other day, noticed that I 

 bowed to a gentleman in a market wagon 

 and asked me who it was. I said, "That 



is Mr. P , and she said, " Oh, he is the 



man who grows those beautiful Jonathan 

 apples we get every year." I said "Yes, 

 he takes a great deal of pains, putting an 

 excellent product upon the market," and 

 she said, " I always get my apples from 

 him because 1 know they will alvvays be of 

 the highest quality, well selected and care- 

 fully handled, and I am willing to pay what 

 he asks, even if the price does seem high. 

 I can aff'ord to pay his prices, because in 

 using his fruit I have no waste." This is 

 the kind of reputation upon which to buifd 

 a remunerative business in the growing of 

 fruit, and this is the level of fruit growing 

 to which I would like to see the average of 

 our cultivators trending. 



BAEEELS OE BOXES 



The evidence with reference to barrels and 

 boxes appears to be somewhat conflicting. 

 Garcia, Jacobs & Co., London, write that 

 the packing of apples in boxes entails so 

 many incidental expenses that such goods 

 cannot compete with similar frait packed in 

 barrels. On the other hand, Mr. R. H. Moir 

 and R. T. Polleck, two Glasgow fruit mer- 



chants, who handle a very large quantity of 

 fruit retail, say that they prefer boxes and 

 small packages and offer as an explanation 

 of contra opinion of the commission men, 

 the statement that more goods would be 

 handled without passing through the hands 

 of the middle man if the packages were 

 smaller. 



