I^ditorial ^0t^s and ®0mm^uts 



THE KOVA SCOTIA APPLE CKOP. 



IN a letter to the Fruit Division, Otta- 

 wa, Mr. J. W. Bigelovv, of Wolfville, 

 N. S., gives the following estimate of 

 this season's apple crop in Nova Scotia: 

 According to present prospects there will be 

 a full crop of superior apples, giving over 

 400,000 barrels for export. Varieties are 

 about as follows : Nonpareil, 60,000 bar- 

 rels ; King, 50,000 ; Gravenstein, 50,000 ; 

 Ribston ^ippin, 40,000; Golden Russet, 

 30,000; Baldwin, 60,000; Rhode Island, 

 Greening, 30,000 ; all other varieties, 80,000. 



APPLES VS. STRAWBERRIES IN ENGLANI). 



^^ HE folly of keeping Canadian apples 

 J. until late in the spring with the hope 

 of selling them for export at an increased 

 profit is shown by a recent report to the 

 Fruit Division, Ottawa, by Mr. A. W. 

 Grindley, one of the agents of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture in Great Britain. Mr. 

 Grindley says : " Prof. Waugh, of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural Experimental 

 Station, and myself, were looking at some 

 States apples in barrels, arrived 29th June 

 in cold storage. They were soft when dis- 

 charged, and did not bring much, as they 

 will go ofif very quickly ; besides, who wants 

 poor apples when the market is swamped 

 with English, strawberries at their best." 



A SHORT FRUIT CROP IN KUROPE. 



^'^ HE Fruit Division, Ottawa, has re- 

 ceived from several of its corre- 

 spondents in Europe reports showing that 

 the fruit crop is a small one this year, and 

 indicating that there will be an unusually 

 good market for Canadian apples and pears. 

 The Glasgow Herald says : " Apples will 

 be scarce, the destruction by spring frosts 

 having been serious and extensive. If 



growers get half a crop on an average they 

 will do well. The prospect, however, var- 

 ies considerably. In some parts of Kent 

 the trees carry excellent crops ; in others 

 hardly any. The same condition of things 

 prevails in Herefordshire, whence the Mid- 

 land counties are so freely supplied with 

 choice dessert apples. In Cambridgeshire 

 the crop is disappointing, although in parts 

 of that county a fair harvest of apples will 

 be gathered. Many growers will be satis- 

 fied if they get a quarter of a crop. Pears 

 have suffered from the spring frosts equally 

 with apples. In some counties the yield 

 will be meagre ; in others the crop is a com- 

 plete failure. Only a third of a crop un- 

 der the most favorable conditions is looked 

 for." 



E. A. O'Kelly & Co., of London, say : 

 " We are glad to state that prospects are 

 very favorable this year for the importation 

 of Canadian fruit, as crops throughout 

 Europe are a total failure. We anticipate 

 that prices will be satisfactory all round for 

 apples." 



From Hamburg, Germany, Edward Ja- 

 cobs & Sons report: "The fruit crop n 

 Europe is this year, generally speaking, 

 short. Should there be no duty on apples 

 the prospects for Canadian are very pron.is- 

 ing." 



Garcia, Jacobs & Co., of London, state : 

 " There has been an almost total failure 

 here of plums and pears, and this year there 

 will be a good opportunity for the shipn":ent 

 of Canadian pears. The latter should be 

 packed in cases similar to those sent from 

 California. That there is a fair crop of 

 early variety apples is a certainty, but they 

 will all be cleared oflf the market before your 

 fruit is ready for shipment. France. Bel- 

 gium and Germany are large growers i-f 



