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for instance. His always looked so nice that even when, we 

 had no place to put it we have never yet made a loss on that 

 good article. We have yet to make our first dollar in selling- 

 poor fruit and we have had sixteen }^ears' experience. Mr. 

 A. P. Stevenson spoke of having good success with Crab 

 Apples. We find that the Transcendent and Siberian are 

 good shippers. The Siberian is not as good as the Trans- 

 cendent. He spoke of Moore's Early Grape. One of the 

 earliest grapes we get from. Ontario is Moore's Early. If you 

 cannot grow Moore's- Early in this country you cannot grow 

 the later varieties. Peaches are sold so cheap here, as low 

 as two cents each or twenty-five cents a dozen, that it is 

 hardly worth the time of going into peaches if you have to 

 turn down the trees every year. Cherries are very expensive, 

 in fact we have never attempted to bring them from Ontario, 

 but get them from California, Oregon and Washington, and 

 even they are expensive. We cannot afford to sell them for 

 less than from $1.00 to $1.25 a box of 8 pounds. 



I would like to have some fun at your rabbits, Mr. 

 Stevenson. I would hire the work done of fixing the trees 

 and I would shoot rabbits. 



The impression I want to leave with you, gentlemen, is 

 to get the very best nursery stock it is possible to get and 

 grow the very best goods. You hear of the poor apples you 

 get and then scold the poor storekeeper, but it is not his 

 fault, nor is it the wholesale man's fault, nor the packer's. 

 Large firms doing business pack from 10,000 to 20,000 barrels 

 a year, and it is impossible for one man to supervise the 

 packing of every barrel. 



You will find a number of small apples in the centre of a 

 barrel. Now it is not the storekeeper's fault, nor the pack- 

 er's, it is the narrow-minded grower's. He is so small he 

 would go inside a walnut shell and yet have rooms to rent. 

 These apples do not pay the grower, the buyer or the packer. 

 We have our own packer in the east, who has for a number 

 of years bought from one of the very largest and wealthiest 

 growers. That gentleman tells his packers, " Do not pack 



