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At a meeting of the Ottawa branch of the 

 O.V.G.A., held in February, it was decided to 

 do away with the habit of giving 13 for a dozen 

 when selling vegetables. The . move was an 

 important one, and met with the approval of 

 the members. 



St. Catharines horticulturists are planning 

 for a great horticultural show next year. Re- 

 cently a representative delegation from the St. 

 Catharines Hort'l Society waited on the local 

 county council and asked for a grant of $175, 

 which they were promised. Already plans have 

 been made by the society that will make the 

 show next year even better than the excellent 

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SECAUCUS, N.J., U.S.A. 



Size, in ExHibition Apples 



Ed., Canadian Horticulturist,— The point 

 raised by Mr. McNeill in the Jan. issue of The 

 Canadian HoRTicin,TURisT, in reference to how 

 much value shall be given to the size of speci- 

 mens in apple exhibits, is a very important one. 

 It is one, as he says, on which judges do not 

 by any means agree. Yet, the tendency of late 

 years has been strongly away from the idea 

 that size was the all-important point, and in 

 favor of giving color, uniformity, freedom from 

 blemishes and quality more ne rly their due 

 consideration. 



I agree most emphatically with Mr. McNeill 

 that, when it is a choice between normal-sized 

 specimens which are smooth and well colored, 

 against over-large ones which are rough and 

 lacking in color, there should not be the slightest 

 hesitation in giving the former the preference. 

 I find, however, in my personal experience as 

 judge, that it is often extremely difficult to 

 draw the line as to just where desirability in 

 size ends and undesirability begins. Still, if we 

 could once establish the principle, and have it 

 generally accepted that it is quite possible to 

 overdo the matter of size, it would certainly be 

 a point gained ; and we should then have judges 

 endeavoring to decide on the line I have just 

 mentioned, instead of, as it is too often the 

 case now, assuming "the bigger, the better." 



On the other hand, it should be borne in 

 mind that the commercial, value of the different 

 points considered in judging is really the basis 

 on which our scheme of judging rests, and that 

 with some apples in some markets size is, if not 

 the all-important point, at least the winning 

 point, other things being equal. I have been 

 told by some of our growers here in Nova 

 Scotia that their "extras" (which have been 

 merely No. I's of extra size) always bring them 

 the most money. With such apples as Wolf 

 River and the like, which are used for decora- 

 tion, large size would certainly add to their 



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