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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



141 



Southern Ontario Apples 



Editor, The Canadian Horticulturist : 

 In your May issue, I notice a letter from Mr. 

 J. A. Webster of Sparta, in jvhich he says, 

 •'To refute the article (previously referred 

 to) which coincides also with Chief Mc- 

 Neill's settled ideas, I will give the history 

 of my apple crop of 1908." 



I am not sure what 'ideas' were expressed 

 in the article referred to, but I am very 

 certain that in the history given by Mr. 

 Webster he is refuting nothing that I ever 

 said or thought, with reference to southern 

 Ontario apples. Indeed, Mr. W'ebster has 

 done with his apples just what I have ad- 

 vised many times during the last 10 years, 

 whenever I have spoken of southern Ontario, 

 api'les. 



In addition to this, his results are just 

 what I have predicted if this particular 

 course should be followed. Let us consider 

 the history of Mr. Webster's apples in de- 

 tail. He packed his early apples in boxes 

 and wrapped them in paper. I have been 

 urging the use of boxes for the best grade 

 of fruit for many years (see my Bulletin No. 

 19) . Mr. Webster shipped these apples in 

 refrigerator car and cold storage chamber. 

 I have upon every possible occasion pointed 

 out the advantages of cold chamber ship- 

 ments, and have maintained that this is the 

 only way to insure uniform success in ship- 

 ping early fruit (see my Evidence before 

 the Agricultural Committee of the House 

 of Commons in 1905 and 1906-7.) The ap- 

 ples arrived in good condition, and sold for 

 high prices. Again, these are the exact re- 

 sults I have predicted for all fruit shipped 

 in this way. 



Then as to his winter fruit. Mr. Webster 

 picked the fruit carefully (no doubt), and 

 got it into cold storage as soon as he could. 



Exactly what I have been urging upon all 

 growers of winter apples in southern On- 

 tario. I have even recommended St. John 

 N.B., as a storage point, but any cold stor- 

 age warehouse will be better than none. 

 These winter apples reached the market in 

 excellent condition, and brought high prices. 

 I would have been very much surprised and 

 chagrined had they not done so inasmuch as 

 they had been treated just as I have re- 

 commended for southern apples. 



Mr. Webster says that southern Ontario 

 apples have high color, good flavor and 

 "cold storage will keep them as good as 

 those from anywhere else." Mr. Webster 

 might also have said that the apples are of 

 good size and that the trees bear abun- 

 dantly. All these good things have I said 

 with reference to southern Ontario apples, 

 in common with Mr .Webster. How, then, 

 does he make out that there is any differ- 

 ence of opinion between us? Mr. Webster 

 has evidently been led into error, and whej 

 next he is told that I have misrepresented 

 the good qualities of southern Ontario ap- 

 ples let him ask for date and page, and he 

 will find that these cannot be given. 



Once more let me express my opinion that 

 southern Ontario can grow as large, as 

 highly flavored and as highly colored apples 

 as can be grown anywhere in Canada, and 

 that the best grades of these apples can be 

 handled with perfect success with the help of 

 cold storage if they are wrapped in paper 

 and packed in boxes just as Mr. Webster 

 has done. This surely will set at rest any 

 insinuation of my want of appreciation 

 of southern Ontario, the orchards of which 

 I have been familiar with all my life. — A. 

 McNeill, Chief, Fruit Division, Ottawa. 



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