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not facilitate speed, but rather retards it when 

 the time required to pick up broken pieces and 

 cooperage is considered. As inspectors at this 

 port we insist on the handling of apples in boxes 

 in the same way eggs are treated, and the sys- 

 tem will not be complete until this has been 

 accomplished. 



The eight wood hoop barrel has been in the 

 majority this season, and it is to be hoped that 

 I there will not be a six hoop barrel offered to 

 j exporters another season. Wire hoops on apple 

 barrels should be discouraged. Nailing hoops 

 i at either end into the fruit is a barbarous habit. 

 Windfall apples should be always marked 

 windfall, so that the purchaser will not count 

 on their keeping quality. When all these little 

 factors that compose a perfect parcel are ob- 

 served, we may hope for full success, and not 

 until then. 



Prince Ed-w^ard Island Notes 



Rev. Father A. E. Burke, President Prince 



Edward Island Fruit Growers' 



Association 



WE quite appreciate the advantages accru- 

 ing to local horticulture from the opening 

 in a valuable magazine like The Horti- 

 culturist of a permanent department wherein 

 all its needs and aspirations may find ready ex- 

 pression. Nothing can better respond to our 

 feelings as orchardists, and make more effective- 

 ly for the spread of sane ideas and practises 

 amongst us. One only regret — that some one 

 better qualified to speak for the Island and so 

 important a branch of its agricultural activity 

 than ourself, has not taken up the task! How- 

 ever, we shall simply break the ice, if anything 

 so frigid can be said to exist between us and 

 the general horticultural educationalists of 

 Canada, and whenever found, rehnquish with- 

 out a murmur this special column to the man 

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Despite the difficulties of winter communica- 

 tion, our growers of apples showed up well at 

 the Winter Fair, Amherst, last month. The 

 apple exhibition was away in advance of other 

 years; and, covering such an extent of terri- 

 tory, wonderfully uniform. The sweepstakes 

 exhibit by Mr. D. S. ColUns, of Kings County, 

 N.S., constituted a picture in itself. How more 

 perfect fruit could be found it would be hard 

 to say. His varieties, too, were eminently com- 

 mercial. Ten varieties were called for, and 

 they were furnished as follows: King, Spy, Ck>ld- 

 en Russet, Nonpariel, Blenheim, Stark, Bald- 

 win, Ribston, Gravenstein and Fallawater. 

 This exhibit would command admiration any- 

 where. In Nova Scotia the Blenheim is a most 

 successful apple. It was known as Graven- 

 stein in the past; that day is done. 



New Brunswick only swung into line last year 

 in the establishment of a Fruit Growers' Asso- 

 ciation. We all felt that it should organize as 

 it could grow good fruit. What is the conse- 

 quence? A splendid impetus in so short a time 

 to all kinds of orcharding. Its apples at Am- 

 herst were in many cases admirable. 



The Bearing "Wood of 

 Cxirrants 



Regarding the pruning of currant bushes Mr. 

 A. W. Peart, of Burlington, informs The Hor- 

 ticulturist that red currants do not bear on 

 the previous year's wood as was stated in a re- 

 port of the address that he gave at the On- 

 tario Horticultural Exhibition. 



Red currants bear on spurs grown on wood 

 one year old and upwards, and in a measure 

 at the base of last year's shoots. Black cur- 

 rants bear chiefly on wood of the previous year, 

 and to a limited extent on spurs from old wood. 

 These points should be considered when prun- 

 ing the currant bushes. 



In packing apples in boxes the fruit must be 

 uniform in size and type. By facing the box 

 with the stem end upward the bruises show 

 far less. — (Harry Dempsey, Rednerville.) 



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