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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



December, 1908 



Some Ontario men have visited our great 

 steel sheds where we are inspecting apples 

 and have found us on several occasions 

 branding some "falsely marked" and 

 "falsely packed." One man said, "I would 

 not have believed it if I were told that such 

 poor apples were going forward — and mark- 

 ed No. 1 at that." Although we have tried 

 to discourage the sending of No. 3 grade, 

 yet there are a few still sending them. On 

 the whole, a very fine lot of No. I's have 

 gone forward and prices to-day, 25 shillings 

 for a few varieties must mean that some 

 dealers are in love with our Canadian 

 apples still. 



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 SCHOOLMASTER 



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PETERBORO, ONTARIO 



Nova Scotia 



Ennice Wattt 



This month ends one of the most bounti- 

 ful years ever witnessed in Nova Scotia. 

 The apple crop has exceeded expectations, 

 and prices have been fairly good on the 

 whole with prospects of a rise. The cran- 

 berry yields have never been so large, and 

 the weather has been most favorable for 

 harvesting them, so that the terries were 

 gathered in fine shape and sold for equally 

 fine prices. 



In the apple belt under the North Moun- 

 tain most orchardists have sold all their 

 apples, while those who are holding them 

 expect the prices to rise. Dealers are oflEer- 

 ing $1.75 a barrel for ones and twos, for 

 such apples as Fallwaters, but returns from 

 England are much more satisfactory, as 

 much as $3.50 for Alexanders being re- 

 ceived. 



The annual exhibit for the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society's Show, in London, Eng- 

 land, was sent from Nova Scotia in Novem- 

 ber. It consisted of 385 boxes, 100 glass 

 jars and 11 barrels of plate fruit. 



NOTES FROM INSPECTOR VROOM 



The fruit crop was much larger than was 

 expected in the early autumn, fully 100,000 

 barrels more. The fruit grew comparatively 

 clean, thus making it easy for packers to 

 be honest. Some men in Nova Scotia must 

 have things very nice before they can be 

 honest when they pack a barrel of apples. 

 There are four co-operative packing com- 

 panies in the Annapolis valley, and they 

 are doing good work and getting fine prices 

 for their fruit. Very few No. 3's are being 

 shipped. Th-.se find their way into the 

 evaporators and cider mills. The price for 

 No. I's started at $1.25 a barrel for Graven- 



steins, packed ready for shipment, and 11.00 

 for No. 2's. ^To-day, the best packed fruit 

 sells readily for from $2.00 to $2.50. 



Contrary to the usual custom, large ship- 

 ments of Nova Scotia apples are going to 

 Liverpool and Glasgow, and larger quan- 

 tities than usual are being sent to Bei- 

 muda,Havana and other West India islands. 

 Kings and Ben Davis are the principal 

 varieties sent to the West Indies. About 

 60,000 fbarrels more have been shipped from 

 Halifax to all points this year to date than 

 last. Several thousand packages, includ- 

 ing barrels, half-fbarrels and boxes, have 

 been shipped to South Africa. 



The cranberry crop was good and the con- 

 tinued fine weather in September and early 

 October enabled the growers to gather them 

 without injury by frost. The price is $5.50 

 a barrel. The barrels hold 80 quarts. The 

 cranberry yield is about 8,000 barrels. 



Read the special Christmas ofier on in- 

 side front cover of this issue. 



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 arrangements for the 

 coming season, please 

 communicate with 



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