THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



The fruits from this tree averaged 2.81 

 ounces each, for which the leading grocers 

 offered but *5j:5c. per basket, making the total 

 value of the fruit from this tree but $1.76. 

 The immediate financial result of thinning 

 in this case was $1.07. Further observa- 

 tion of the two trees showed that 46.6 per 

 cent more fruit buds matured on the tree 

 severely thinned during the season than on 

 the other tree. Figured out on the basis of 



an acre, there was an advantage in thinning 

 of $171.20. 



Had this experiment been verified in the 

 case of a dozen or twenty instances instead 

 of one, it would of course have much more 

 weight, yet every instance of this kind helps 

 to establish the position we have taken, that 

 with such varieties of peaches and plums as 

 are inclined to overload, and grow small la 

 consequence, thinning pays. 



APPLE SITUATION ABROAD. 



MR. GLEASON, the general manager 

 of the Gleason-Loomis Cold Stor- 

 age Company, of Le Roy, N. Y., recently 

 returned from Europe and furnished some 

 interesting information in regard to the ap- 

 ple situation in foreign countries. Mr. 

 Gleason says : 



" Those who have not paid special atten- 

 tion to the subject will be surprised to learn 

 of the vast distribution of American apples 

 throughout Europe. Europe does not be- 

 gin to produce enough apples for its own 

 consumption. In fact, Europe produces 

 only one-eighth of the apples it requires. 

 Tihese apples, which are of indifferent qual- 

 ity, are consumed early in the fall and are 

 practically gone when the American expor- 

 tations begin to arrive. 



" It is a matter of statistical record that 

 between September 15 and December 27 of 

 1902 apples were shipped from the United 

 States to various European ports in quanti- 

 ties as follows: To Liverpool, the great 

 distributing point of apples shipped to Eu- 

 rope, 1,008,868 barrels; London, 274,190 

 barrels; Glasgow, 318,431 barrels; Ham- 

 burg, 97,647 barrels ; other European ports. 



58,339 barrels — or a grand total of 1,757,475 

 barrels of American apples shipped to Eu- 

 rope in three months. 



" The amount of the shipments depends 

 very largely on the price of the product. In 

 1 90 1 the apple crop in the United States was 

 very light, and as a result only 524,889 bar- 

 rels of apples were exported to Europe as 

 against 1,757,475 barrels last year. 



" The average price for the 1902 crop to 

 this date was $1.50 to $2.50 a barrel, net ai 

 shipping point. These apples would be 

 taken freely at 12 shillings a barrel, or about 

 $3, for good stock on dock in European 

 ports. 



" American producers would have a splen- 

 did market for apples in Germany, were 

 they not hedged about with laws, regula- 

 tions and restrictions, like complaints of the 

 San Jose scale, etc., which are intended to 

 protect the German fruit growers and cer- 

 tainly have the effect of keeping American 

 fruit out of the German market, and may be 

 called reprisals, for in effect it is a continua- 

 tion underlying the fight made on American 

 pork." 



