THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



may be of service at the present time when 

 so many are estimating- how much stock 

 they need for spring planting : 



NAME OK UiSTAKCE NUMBER 



TREE OR PI. AM' APART PER ACRE 



Strawberries 3 ft. by i ft. 14,520 



" 4 ft. — I ft. 10,890 



Raspberries 4 ft. — i ft. 10,890 



" 6 ft. — 2 ft. 3,630 



Blackberries 6 ft. — 2 ft. 3,630 



Gooseberries 5 ft. — 4 ft. 2. 178 



Currants 6 ft. — 4 ft. i, 185 



Peaches 15 ft. — 15 ft. 193 



Plums and Pears 20 ft. — 20 ft. 108 



Apples 30 ft. —30 ft. 48 



" 36 ft. —36 ft. 33 



" 40 ft. — 40 ft. 27 



A LEGAL APPLE BOX WANTED. 



Sir, — I am instructed by the directors of the 

 British Columbia Fruit Growers Association to ask 

 for the co-operation of your association in an 

 endeavor to induce the Dominion Government to 

 establish a legal box for the sale of apples. The 

 box which we have found to be the most conven- 

 ient has a capacity of 21 x 10 x 11 inches and we 

 would prefer that capacity made legal, but we are 

 more interested in having a lawful box than in the 

 size of same. If your association will give this 

 matter the consideration it deserves and join us in 

 an appeal to the government to establish a uniform 

 standard box, the question will be settled at the 

 next sitting of parliament and a source of annoy- 

 ance to dealers and consumers will be removed. 



W. J. Brandrith, 

 Sec'y, British Columbia Fruit Growers' 

 Association, New Westmini.ster, B. C. 



At the Walkerton meeting of our Ontario 

 Association, lasv December, it was agreed 

 to adopt an apple box measuring inside 9 

 inches deep, 12 inches wide and 18 inche^ 

 long, for export. This is practically the 

 California pear box, and we see no reason 

 for making the apple box diflferent, for many 

 sizes are a nuisance when packing cars. 

 We have been using a fifty pound box, 10 x 

 II X 22, of which three filled a barrel, but in 

 Great Britain we found this box was selling 

 for the same as the Tasmania box, which is 

 a forty pound box, and of which there are 

 four to the barrel. We also find that a 

 forty pound box is more wanted in the 

 British market, and for these reasons we 

 adopted the sizes above described. 



We propose that all the Fruit Growers' 

 Associations in the Dominion try this box 

 for one year before we ask for any Act of 

 Parliament. In Ontario we can get this box 

 made dovetailed, of yk stuff, for $10.00 per 

 hundred. It will hold three layers of apples, 

 instead of four which we put into our bushel 

 box last year. 



DUCHESS PEARS IN GLASGOW. 



MR. JOHN BROWN, Govt. Agent, 

 Glasgow, writes : " Grimsby and Bur- 

 lington shippers have yet to establish a name 

 for uniformity. Some of their boxed fruit I 

 have reported as poor, while other lots are 

 more than excellent. I saw small Duchess 

 pears, which had been held three weeks in 

 Glasgow and were not colored in the least, 

 being immature. Near them I found some 

 of the finest Baldwin apples that have been 

 on any market this season." 



Prices for Canadian pears have gone up 

 lately in the British market, in some cases 

 to 8 and 10 shillings per half case. It is 

 needless to say that this will give our Cana- 

 dian growers a return much above anything 

 they could expect in our own markets. 



Mr. W. A. MacKinnon, Chief of the Fruit 

 Division, makes the following comment upon 

 these prices : "It would be folly to expect 

 the same quality of pears to bring the same 

 prices again, for many of the Duchess were 

 simply wretched. KieflFers were fair for the 

 variety, but not equal to last years in quali- 

 ty. They looked well, however, which the 

 Duchess did not. You only need to com- 

 pare the prices paid for Canadian pears with 

 those for Californian on the same day, to 

 see the relative quality of the Canadian. It 

 certainly will not be safe to send such a 

 quality of pear to this market when there is 

 the usual supply of dessert pears. " 



