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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



December, 1909 



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This province sent about 800 boxes of 

 fruit to England in charge of Mr. W. E. 

 Scott, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, for 

 display at the Royal Horticultural Show 

 and at about 20 other exhibitions in Great 

 Britain. The fruit was contributed from 

 all over the province by associations, ex- 

 changes, dealers and growers. 



Mr. James Johnstone, Nelson, reports 

 that his yield of apples was quite up to the 

 average. He received $2.25 a box for choice 

 grade fall apples and $3 a box for winter 

 varieties such as Red Cheek Pippin and 

 Spitzenburg, f.o.b., Nelson. In a letter to 

 The Canadian Horticulturist Mr. John- 

 stone says, "Several cars of Ontario's ap- 

 ples arriving here have been condemned 

 and destroyed for disease." 



Canadian Horticulturist will be pubjished 

 in next isstie. — Editor. 



Uniform Judging of Fruits 



R. W. Starr, Wolfville N. S. 



At the annual meeting of Nova Scotia 

 Fruit Growers' Association held in Berwick 

 last December, the subject of judging fruits 

 at exhibitions was brought up and pretty 

 thoroughly discussed. The idea seemed to 

 be general, that some practical system that 

 could be understood by both exhibitor and 

 judges, and so arranged as to be acceptable 

 to the whole Dominion, is what is wanted. 



A committee was appointed to carry out 

 this idea, and to draft score cards for plates 

 and collections, to be submitted to the execu- 

 tive for approval. After some aelay and cor- 

 respondence a rough draft was prepared 

 and submitted. This was referred to Mr. 

 W. T. Macoun of Ottawa for revision and 

 approval, and we must thank him for very 

 efficient assistance in perfecting the work 

 so far as we have gone. 



Printed copies of these cards, with ex- 

 planations have been sent to fruit growers' 

 associations, agricultural colleges, horticul- 

 tural magazines and papers of Canada, ask- 

 ing for full discussion and comment, with 

 the view to make the work acceptable to 

 the fruit growers of the Dominion, and that 

 the cards may be used as a standard to 

 decide all cases of close competition, if not 

 required in every case. 



IJp to the present time answers have been 

 received from a number of those to whom 

 copies were sent and so far all have aproy- 

 ed of the movement and promise support in 

 their several positions and capacities. 



Note. — Lack of apace in this issue pre- 

 vents the publication of comments, further 

 than to mention that the proposed cards 

 have been approved of in most particulars 

 bv Mr. W. T. Macoun, Central Experiment- 

 al Farm, Ottawa; Prof. W. S. Blair, Mr.c- 

 donald College, Que.; Prof. H. L. Hutt, 

 O.A.C., Guelph; Mr. S. B. Hatheway, Fred- 

 ericton, secretary of the iNew Brunswick 

 Fruit Growers' Associations ; and others. At 

 the recent convention of the Ontario Fruit 

 Growers' Association the ijroposed cards 

 were discussed and the general feeling was 

 in favor of their adoption, except in one es- 

 sential, but the matter was left in the hands 

 of a committee. Exception was taken to the 

 fact that no allowance is made for quality in 

 the score card for plates. Prof. John Craig 

 of Cornell University said that quality 

 should not be overlooked in plate exhibits. 

 He stated also that uniformity in score cards 

 should be adopted by all the jirovinces. Mr. 

 W. T. Macoun suggested that a second score 

 card for plates be adopted that would in- 

 clude quality so that this might be used 

 when needed. The N.S. proposed cards are 

 printed on this page. Fruit growers in all 

 the provinces are invited to discuss their 

 merits through these columns. Comments 

 already received by Mr. Starr and by Thb 



Scale of Points for Judging Fruit 



Proposed by the Fruit Growers' Association of 

 Nova Scotia, 1909 



EXPLANATION OF TERMS 

 Freedom from Blemish.— Any injury by Insects, 



FuneuR. Bruises. Loss of Stem or other cause. 



lessening the value or appearance of the Exhlb 



it, may be called a Blemish. 

 Color.— Bright, clear, well developed color, 



characteristic of the variety preferred. 



Form. — Represents the perfect or normal type 

 of the variety. 



Uniformity.— Specimens should be as nearly 

 alike in size, form and color as possible. 



Size.— Indicates care and skill in product ioi, 

 and usually, other points being equal, size 

 wins. 



Commercial Value.- Standard, known market 

 varieties as grown in and suited to the distriit. 

 preferred. 



Quality.- To be considered in collections. Seed 

 lings, new varieties on trial, or other sorts in 

 competition. 



Nomenclature.- Exhibits must be correctly 

 named according to the nomenclature adopted 

 by the Society, Association or Exhibitian at 

 which they are shown. 



Arrangement.— Taste and skill in staging so as 

 to attract attention and add to the general an 

 pearance of the exhibit. 



A few hundred cases of apples have been 

 sent from Nova Scotia to Great Britain 

 for distribution among the various shows 

 held there, other than the Royal Horticul- 

 tural Show. Competent men of the pro- 

 vince were chosen to select and pack the 

 fruit and the government has guaranteed 

 a fair price for same when sold after being 

 exhibited. 



At the convention of the Ontario Fruit 

 Growers' Association, the visiting speakers 

 from the United States, Messrs. Bassett, 

 Cornell and Falvay, gave valuable informa- 

 tion and helped materially to make the 

 meetings a success. They deserved the 

 thanks of the association which was tend- 

 ered to them by vote at the concluding ses- 

 sion. Come again. 



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