February, 1909 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



41 



Spokane Apple Show 



Edgar W. Dyne>, Ncl<an, B. C. 



"The National Apple Show is the Ibest ex- 

 hibition of its kind that I have ever seen. 

 It is alone in its class and its fruit is of 

 splendid quality," said William Crossley, 

 of Liverpool, England, representing D. 

 Crossley & Sons, of Liverpool, Glasgow, 

 New York, and Boston, after he had looked 

 over the exhibition at the National Apple 

 Show, that was held in Spokane, Wash., 

 Dec. 7 to 12. "I am here representing our 

 firm to find where the best apples are grown 

 and to meet the people whof grow them," 

 he continued. "This morning I bought 

 seven carloads of northwestern apples for 

 shipment to New York and Europe. A short 

 time ago we shipped to Europe a lot of 

 Winter Banana apples, some of which reach- 

 ed the tables of King Edward, and were of 

 splendid size and appearance. The Winter 

 Bananas measured two and one-half times 

 the size of the New England Baldwins, 

 which had been customarily going to the 

 Royal table." Mr. Crossley was only one 

 of a number of eastern and European buy- 

 ers, who were present at the apple show and 

 they all expressed themselves in much the 

 same terms. 



The famous, much talked of $1,000 prize 

 for the best carload was awarded to Mr. M. 

 Horan, of Wenatchee, Wash., while Mr. H. 

 M. Gilbert, of Yakima, Wash., was a close 

 second, with a car of Winesaps. The prize 

 winning carload was composed of several 

 varieties, including Winesap, Grimes Gold- 

 en, Delicious, Esopus Spitzenberg, Yellow 

 Newton, Rome Beauty, Winter Banana, 

 Arkansas Black and Jonathan. The third 

 prize was awarded to a car of Mcintosh 

 Reds, from the Bitter Root Valley, in Mon- 

 tana. It might be of interest to mention 



that both Mr. Horan and Mr. Gilbert, are 

 practically amateur fruit growers, as Mr. 

 Gilbert came from Illinois to lakima eleven 

 years ago, and Mr. Horan's orchard is only 

 eight years old. 



There were no exhibits from eastern Can- 

 ada, but British Columljia was well repres- 

 ented; that is, from the quality standpoint. 

 Outside of Kelowna the exhibits were rathei 

 small and unworthy of what the province 

 can really produce, but Kelowna won 

 enough for all. 



At this writing (Dec. 14th), I have not the 

 complete record, but as far as I have been 

 able to learn, Mr. F. R. E. De Hart, of 

 Kelowna, wins in the neighborhood of $5,000 

 of the $35,000 awarded m prizes. A great 

 deal of credit is due to him and to hia as- 

 sistant, Mr. J. Gibb, for the faithful way in 

 which they carried out their work in con- 

 nection with the exhibit. They were in 

 Spokane for a full week before the show 

 commenced and left no stone unturned to 

 have their exhibits in the most presentable 

 shape. 



Perhaps Mr. De Hart's most important 

 winning was for the best individual display 

 of apples. This called for two boxes, two 

 baskets, two barrels and two jars. The com- 

 petition was very keen, but the Okanagan 

 man won by four points over Mr. A. France, 

 of Wenatchee, while the Chelan Commercial 

 Club came third. Jhe first prize. was $500, 

 and the winner also had the privilege of 

 selling two boxes to a Spokane grocery firm 

 for $25 a box. 



Other prizes won by Mr. De Hart were: 

 First for the best 10 boxes of Spy, the prize 

 being an irrigated tract near Spokane, 

 valued at $1,250; first for the best 10 boxes 

 of Jonathan, the prize being an irrigated 

 tract at Hayden Lake, valued at $2,000; 

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