about 4d. per Ib. wholesale ; Californian apples hardly come up to 

 the Oregon supply, the price for the corresponding period being 

 from 75. 6d. to los. per case. 



"At this time of year the markets are supplied with apples 

 from British Colonies, South Australia and Tasmania taking the 

 lead. Prices vary according to variety, Cox's Orange Pippin fetch- 

 ing us. to 145. per case; Ribstons, Munro's Favourite, Cleopatra, 

 Jonathan, are all of first-rate quality and range from 8s. 6d. to los. 

 6d. or us. per case. Sturmer and Scarlet Pearmain, and other 

 kinds, make rather less, say 8s. to los. per case." 



Pruning Apple Trees. (Harper Adams Agrie. Coll., Field 

 Experiments, Report, 1908). The four, of the Board of Agric., 

 March 1910, London, Vol. XVI, N. 12, p. 1024. 



" Trees that were unpruned were found, both in 1907 and 1908, 

 to form more fruit buds than pruned trees, especially in the case 

 of Cox's Orange Pippin. The averpge increase in diameter of stem 

 of unpruned trees is less than that of those pruned regularly. 



Average diameter in inches at 4 '/ a feet above ground. 



Unpruned Pruned 



trees trees 



Cox's Orange Pippin .... 2.06 2.44 



Bismark 2.25 2.55 



Bramley's Seeding 2.42 1.78" 



G. BELLETTRE. Fruit-packing for England of French pro- 

 ducts. Les Marc/its Anglais des Fruits Paris, Charles Amat, 

 1910, p. 39-51. 



The panniers generally used for the fruit export to England 

 are round baskets made of osier without covers. They are solid 

 and durable and easily piled, without hurting the fruit, the bottom 

 of the baskets being convexed. Their capacity is of a sieve (36.4 li- 

 tres) or half-sieve which is generally used and contains 21 pounds 

 (kgs. 9 562) of apples or pears or 24 pounds of other fruits. 



The fleins (or flengs or flins) are oval baskets, sometimes rectan- 

 gular in shape, seldom round, with a handle, and represent an 

 ideal packing for fine fruits, but as they require further packing 

 higher freight results from their ^use. 



Boxes for fruit shipments are of a great number of shapes and 

 dimensions. 



