NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



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from its scabby appearance and its conse- 

 quent small size. Besides this, the trees 

 themselves are weakened in growth and are 

 less productive, so that the fruit grower has 

 in this fungus a most serious obstacle to h's 

 success. Eriksson (see Expert. Sta. Record 

 Oct. . 1903, p. 163) recommends immediate 

 removal and destruction of fallen leaves 

 from aflfected trees, and spraying or wash- 

 ing the bare trees with Bordeaux m.ixture, dr 

 copper sulphate solution, during the winter. 

 In addition he advises two or three spray- 

 ings in spring and summer. 



FRANCE A MARKET FOR CANADIAN 

 APPLES. 



IT has been already pointed out in these 

 pages that France is asking for Cana- 

 dian apples, and that for our first-class stock 

 a good demand may be found in Paris among 

 the first-class people who appreciate a good 

 thing and are willing to pay for it. That 

 Ihis is not mere conjecture is proven by some 

 recent sales of apples to go to Paris. The 

 writer for example has a contract for 150 

 boxes of prime apples, to go to that city as a 

 sample lot to open up a trade for coming 

 years. They are all to be fancy colored 

 apples, weighing not less than seven ounces 

 each, to be wrapped in paper, and carefully 

 packed with excelsior. For these the writer 

 is to receive $1.72 per box delivered in 

 Montreal. This is a high figure, but per- 

 haps not too high for such a high grade ar- 

 ticle. 



" Certainly not." says Mr. John Brennan, 

 of Grimsby, " for I have been doing as well 

 as that in our own country. I pack my 

 fancy XXX Spys that way and sell them 

 only on order. Last spring I made sale of 

 some of my best brand for $2.50 a box. de- 

 livered in Quebec ! I often make sale of 

 this brand at from $1.50 to $2.00 a box 'n 

 Canada during the winter." 



Now we have no doubt that fancy stock, 

 picked in. an attractive manner, will com- 



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Fig 2696. Apple Packing in the Orchard. The 



Choice Samples go in Boxes, and Ordinary 



Stock in Barrels. 



mand good value in almost any city in the 



world, even in the heart of an apple raising 



country. 



HOW TO PACK. 



A subscriber, Mr. C. Mcllthargey, of 



Stratford, writes: 



Sir, — I was told that you had experience in pack- 

 ing apples in boxes, and as we cannot get barrels we 

 have had some boxes made same as used for oranges, 

 but find difficulty in getting them packed tight. 

 Do you advise wrapping in paper or using some kind 

 of packing, such as excelsior, for the top. Any in 

 formation you give will be greatly appreciated. 



The orange box is entirely too large for 

 such heavy stock as apples ; besides, the sides 

 are made of material that is too thin, and 

 outside pressure would bruise such unyield- 

 ing fruit as apples. For apples either a 

 forty pound box, measuring inside 9 x 12 x 

 18, or a bushel box measuring inside 

 10 x II X 20 is much more suitable. The 

 former is the California pear box and the 

 latter is the Tasmania apple box. These 

 are made of ^'or ^, inch sides, and V^ ends, 

 :ind will be found to pack well. 



We wrap all extra XXX fruit in tissue 

 paper and pack against the top, in rows, four 

 apples wide, three or four deep, and from 6 

 to 8 long, according to the size of the box 

 "p^' the size of the apples.. 



For D^ddinqf v.e use excelsior, and the 



