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ENGLISH MORELLO CHERRY ON CLAY 



THE best orchard of English Morello 

 cherry trees we have seen in Ontario 

 is owned by Mr. D. J. McKinnon, of 

 Grimsby. The trees are five years planted 

 on clay loam, well drained and well culti- 

 vated, and cut back to within two feet of 

 the ground, so that the heads are formed 

 very low and the fruit can all be picked 

 while standing on the ground. The trees 

 were bending down with an enormous load 

 of beautiful dark red fruit on August 2nd, 

 when we took the accompanying photo- 

 graph, and it was estimated that they 

 would yield an average of three baskets to 

 a tree. "They pay," said Mr. McKinnon, 

 " better than any trees on the place. Of 

 course they have been well fertilized, and 

 this may in part explain their great pro- 

 ductiveness. I put a car load of wood ashes- 

 on that two acres of cherry trees last year, 

 and now I am reaping the returns." 



We have the same variety of cherry at 

 " Maplehurst" on sandy loam, and although 

 the trees were nearly as full of fruit, there 

 was much greater tendency to rot, and all 

 had to be gathered before the above-men- 

 tioned date. It is unfortunate that this 

 cherry should be so often sold as Wragg, 

 not a euphonious name, surely ; this name 

 was given it by a western nurseryman, who 

 claimed that he had a variety quite distinct 

 from English Morello, but nobody else 

 seems able to see any difference. 



FAIRLY GrOOD REPORTS OF FRUIT EX- 

 PORTED TO GLASGOW. 



WHEN the fruit growers of Ontario 

 have learned to produce only fruit 

 of the best quality, and never to allow inferior 

 samples upon a tree to reach maturity, they 

 will have learned the secret of success in fruit 

 growing. Then we can ship with confidence 

 to any market and expect reasonable results. 

 Every week since August ist, when Astra- 

 chans began to ripen, we have kept up steady 



and successive shipments of apples and pears, 

 with varying success, but on the whole, with 

 encouraging results. 



With the exception of one lot to Man- 

 chester and one to Liverpool, all these have 

 gone to Glasgow, and a recent mail has 

 brought us the following report by John 

 Brown, Inspector at Glasgow, which may be 

 of interest : 



EXTRACT. 



(Marina Shipment). 



The 953 C's shipped by L. Woolverton consisted 

 of Wilson C's of pears and apples, ^ C/s pears, 40 

 lb. boxes apples, 2 C's plums, 3 large Wilson C's 

 peaches. The pears were packed in the i C's in 

 wood shavings with no paper on them ; the variety 

 was principally Bartlett. These showed up very 

 well, although some were very ripe. The pears in 

 the Wilson C's showed up well also, and the 

 Duchess apples in Wilson C's were the best Duchess 

 I have seen this season. The peaches were very 

 wasty and only about a third of each case was fit 

 for use. These were put up in special cases with no 

 ventilation whatever, which I think had something 

 to do with the condition they arrived in. They are, 

 in any case, a dangerous fruit to ship. The two 

 half cases Washington Plums were useless. The 

 following are the prices : 



Bartlett Pears in Wilson C's, 6/3 8/- 

 Duchess Apples do 5/- 6/- 



Bartless Pears, ^ C's 5/- 5/9 



Apples, 40 lb. boxes 6/3 6/6 



I have seen two of the largest buyers of the Bart- 

 lett pears, both of whom report : the pears they got 

 went sleepy, and afters or 4 days were quite useless. 



(Lakonia Shipment). 



L. WopLVERTON, Pears and Apples. — The pears 

 were packed in half cases in Excelsior packing, 

 without being packed separately in paper. This 

 packing was (for pears) rather coarse; something 

 of a finer and softer nature would, I think, be more 

 suitable and less likely to bruise the fruit. I also 

 advocate the wrapping of each pear separately in 

 paper, the same as the Californian pears, using the 

 same kind of paper. Some of the pears were 

 packed in Wilson cases. There was no paper on 

 these either, with the result that a good many were 

 bruised. The half case is going to be the most 

 popular package here, as it relatively contains more 

 fruit and is less expensive than the Wilson case. 

 The latter would only pay with fruit of exceptional 

 quality. The apples were packed in special cases 

 holding about 40 lbs. of fruit. They were in layers 

 with a great deal of Excelsior packing between 

 each layer. This, I think, is quite unnecessary, a 

 layer of Excelsior being sufficient, as buyers natur- 

 ally prefer a box full of apples rather than two- 

 thirds and one-third packing. Woolverton also 

 sent a sample Wilson ca.se of peaches and a sample 

 case tomatoes. The former showed up well, each 

 peach being wrapped up separately in paper and 

 mostly in good order ; the latter were a failure, the 



