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Covent Garden, London,* to whose firm most of the apples 

 going to the London market are consigned. 



" He says that there would be no objection whatever to the apples 

 being classed, and that sales could be readily found for more than 

 one class, but that the ones, twos, and threes, should be rigidly and 

 conscientiously separated, and kejit so in the barrel." * * '' Speak- 

 ing of the state of the packing of the immense number of apples 

 coming from America, during the past season, he referred to the 

 great loss and disappointment incurred from bad packing, brands 

 found to be deficient in that way being evaded by the purchaser. 

 The Canadian apples are much better." 



There can be no valid excnse for the improper packing of 



fruit, whether for exportation or storage at home. The only 



plea in abatement may be — a saving of elbow-grease. But to 



this comes in the inevitable demurrer that the lubrication of the 



pocket nerve is thereby rendered uncertain. Men will toil, 



year after year, throughout the sweltering heat of Summer, to 



secure a ton of liay from an acre of ground. Let them have 



forty (40) apple trees upon the same amount of land, and they 



would esteem themselves ill-used were they reproached for not 



taking proper care of them. Yet the excessive crop might be 



thinned, at the pleasantest season of the year — a labor in which 



children could be trained to bo particularly useful. Nor would 



it appear to be a great hardship to gather the mature harvest 



during an Indian Summer. It is doubtless true that the orchard 



cannot be the sole reliance of our Terrse-culturists. They must 



live by everything that the earth can be coaxed, or coerced, to 



yield. 



" And the earth brought forth grass, and herb, yielding seed after 

 his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after 

 his kind ; and God saw that it was good." 



Worcester County is a good place to live in : — there can be 

 found, in the wide world, none better. But it is no land of 

 tropical profusion and, as well, tropical shiftlessness. It requires 

 some vexation of spirit to wrest a livelihood from our rugged 

 soil; and therefore it is that diversities of cultivation and of crops 

 should be welcomed, and new markets discovered, to be there- 

 after retained. There ought to be no limit to the demand for 



*Garden, The, p. 592, June 11, 1881. 



