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crop ; while the fruit buds of American 

 varieties (Prunus Americana) were very 

 much destroyed with the frost, also the 

 Japanese varieties, Abundance, Burbank and 

 Willard. Would you kindly give the di- 

 mensions of the Grimsby apple case. I 

 have been using a case the same as the Cali- 

 fornia case holding about 40 lbs. of apples. 



The apple box used by us in exporting 

 apples measures 10^ x 11^ x 22 inside 



measure and holds about one bushel of 

 apples. If this were taken as the outside 

 measure it would mean a box holding about 

 40 lbs. of apples, and indeed be practically 

 the same as the California apple box. We 

 have preferred to take these as inside 

 measurements, because in packing we can 

 just fit in the apples 4x4x8, of No. i 

 stock, 2^ inches in diameter ; or a total of 

 128 apples in a bushel box. 



CORK INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1902 



A LEITER FROM MR. E. H. WARTMAN, DOMINION FRUIT INSPECTOR, MONTREAL. 



SIR, — It may be your pleasure to pub- 

 lish a few lines from my note book. 

 As Superintendent of Fruit at Inter- 

 national Exhibition, Cork, Ireland, my time 

 is fully taken up telling the people here how 

 successful the fruit growers of Canada have 

 been in the cultivation of various kinds of 

 fruits. When I tell them we can grow 

 apples at a profit at one dollar per barrel, 

 and grapes, pears, plums and peaches, a ten 

 pound basket at thirty cents, they look 

 astonished. I saw some very nice peaches 

 in a fruiter's window. I went in and priced 

 them ; they asked 6d. to is., or 12c. to 24c. 

 each. Although my mouth seemed to water, 

 I came away minus any. I have visited a 

 number of "as they call them" orchards in 

 the vicinity of Cork. They all have twelve 

 foot stone walls around them. This wall 

 serves a two-fold purpose, for concentration 

 of heat as well as a good support to tack 

 vines or various kinds of trees to. I tell 

 them of our hundred acre orchards that it 

 would be impossible to put a penitentiary 

 wall around, as we can put our stone to 

 better use ; but they say unprotected orch- 

 ards here have all their fruit stolen. Then 

 I tell them to try Canada, where thieves 

 seldom break through and steal. The fruit 



growers of our Province will see the people 

 here have many discouraging things to con- 

 tend with. The visitors to our pavilion are 

 most unanimous in saying it's the best show 

 on the grounds, which is a pleasure for us 

 Canadians to hear, and gives encourage- 

 ment still to do better in the future years. 



I have about 20 kinds of our apples on 

 table yet in a good state of preservation this 

 1 8th day of August, 1902. On the 8th of 

 August I made a thorough examination of a 

 number of boxes of apples with the follow- 

 ing results : Baldwins, 56 per cent., sound ; 

 Phoenix, 46 per cent. ; Golden Russet, 57 

 per cent. ; Canada Red, 55 per cent. ; English 

 Russet, 86 per cent. ; Rox Russet, 95 per 

 cent. ; Nova Scotia, Nonpareil, 86 per cent. ; 

 Mann, 80 per cent., sound. I consider this 

 speaks well for keeping quality of our apples, 

 as this lot were repacked out of barrels that 

 had been pressed very hard for export and 

 badly bruised. Had they been carefully 

 selected from trees, cooled, wrapped and 

 boxed, results would have been better. It is 

 very natural for people of this country to ask 

 me how we keep our apples so long. I tell 

 them in the first place it is the climate that 

 makes our apples of so good keeping quality, 

 in- fact the best keepers in the world ; tha 



