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culls; 2nd barrel, 76 good, 53 culls ; 15% 

 of inferior is the limit, even if graded No. 2. 

 They were prosecuted and fined, two other 

 cases being found against them in another 

 city. 



One very large shipper, grower and an 

 altogether prominent man in horticultural 

 circles, has been sending considerable quan- 

 tities of apples and other fruit to this country 

 last season. I happened to catch a car of 

 his apples at Brandon, but had only an hour 

 in which to hunt up the car, make the in- 

 spection, and catch my train. Fortunately 

 the car was at the platform and I got out 

 six barrels. Two of them were Jenettings, 

 and not worth forty cent*; a barrel. I have 

 seen peaches out of the baskets stamped 

 with this man's name, and they were not 

 worth a shilling a bushel. They were about 

 the size of walnuts, and every bit as rough. 



But the funniest and yet perhaps the 

 most pathetic thing about the whole business 

 from a moral point of view is this. A. R. C. 

 being (as I am told), a contributor in the 

 making up of a carload, the apples he him- 

 self furnishes being liable for two different 

 reasons to subject him to prosecution, while 

 many others of the lot from other sources 

 are so bad that some of them would not 

 bring the price of freight charges — this A. 



R. C. writes the unfortunate receiver of the 

 apples to pay up or be sued. 



Mr. Editor, these are not Arabian Night 

 or fairy stories, but downright sober, solemn 

 truths ; truths that I might vouch for in 

 every particular, and are but a fine cut of 

 many. It is no use to use bad language, 

 indeed one must not for cold type, but 

 seriously, what are the Ontario people going 

 to do about it? Supposing British Col- 

 umbia had no apples to send to us, is there 

 not a higher motive and a better reason why 

 this should not be continued? Scaring a 

 man into packing his apples right is some- 

 thing like scaring a man into religion be- 

 cause he is afraid of Hades, and will only 

 last while you keep him scared, and I have 

 it on good authority that a large proportion 

 of that class backslide. 



I trust the motive which inspires this 

 letter will not be misunderstood. I beg to 

 assure your readers that it is purely a case 

 of " Nothing extenuate nor aught set down 

 in malice." As I have written to another 

 periodical in another letter I know something 

 of the difficulties that had to be met this year. 



Hoping I have not trespassed on too 

 much of your space, I remain, yours truly, 



J. J. Philp, 

 Dominion Fruit Inspector. 



ORIGIN OF FAMOUS APPLES. 



AT THE recent Shaw banquet in St. 

 Louis, Albert Blair, responding to a 

 toast said : 



I am glad that the first Congress of 

 American Apple Growers has been held in 

 this city, in the state of Missouri. We owe 

 much toother states for their achievements 

 in apple culture. Massachusetts gave us 

 the Baldwin, the apple so much prized by 

 our friends in the east ; New York gave us 



the Northern Spy and the Newton Pippin, 

 the latter said to be the king of apples ; 

 New Jersey gave us the Belleflower and the 

 Maiden Blush ; Virginia, the Albermarle 

 Pippin and Grimes' Golden ; Kentucky, 

 the Ben Davis, unequalled for profit ; Mis- 

 souri has produced the Missouri Pippin and 

 the Huntsmen's Favorite, and is herself first 

 in rank as the land of the big red apples and of 

 the big yielding orchards that produce them. 



