NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



house to the glare of the greenhouse, 

 and that shade is an essential for its 

 best development." 



The Louise is one of the finest ex- 

 port pears, providing a first-class sample 

 is produced. On well cultivated sandy 

 loam, well enriched, well pruned, the 

 tree yields a fine crop of large fruit 

 with a beautifully colored cheek; and 

 such stock brought the highest price 

 in the British market, of any pear we 

 sent over in 1898. 



A writer in the " Fruit Grower " writes 

 as follows of it : We put Louise Bonne 

 first, and in spite of the claims of 

 several others, we think that we are 

 justified in doing so. Why? do you 

 ask ; well, simply because it is a most 

 luscious variety, puts on a grand color, 

 comes to a good salable size, and is ex- 

 quisite when fully matured. We really 

 wonder if a well-ripened English Louise 

 Bonne has any thing that can be com- 

 parable to it as pears go. It is a grand 

 fruit for marketing in boxes, and on that 

 account cannot be too freely grown. 

 We have seen these pears marketed 

 thus going out to the order of the best 

 buyers in the retail trade without having 

 being opened for general view at all, 

 and this proves very clearly that it is an 

 excellent one to grow for profit. 



As often grown, however, in Ontario, 

 on soil that is poorly cultivated, and 

 poorly fertilized, the pear is small, and 

 scabby, and unfit for market. It suc- 

 ceeds far better as a dwarf than as a 

 standard. 



Good Pears. — The Fruit Grower 

 gives the following list of desirable pears, 

 viz.: Doyenne de Cornice, Beurre 

 Hardy, Pitmaston Duchess and Wil- 

 liam's Bon Chretien (Bartlett). 



Wormy and Spotted fruit filling the 



English market. It is surprising that 

 our apple shippers will follow the suici- 

 dal policy of shipping to the foreign 

 market such rubbish as they have been 

 doing this season. It would appear 

 that the warnings given in this Journal, 

 and in the reports of our meetings have 

 been wholly without effect in hindering 

 this evil of fraudulent packing. Ship- 

 pers go about the country buying up 

 orchards, and do not hesitate to use the 

 good fruit for facing up the ends of the 

 barrels, and the rubbish to fill in the 

 middle. James Adams, Son & Co.. 

 Liverpool, write, November 4th : 



The position of things this week has 

 been disappointing in the extreme, the 

 excessive supply of inferior and faulty 

 conditioned fruit having so completely 

 demoralized the market that, to effect 

 sales, wretchedly low prices have had to 

 be accepted. Indeed, hundreds of bar- 

 rels have been sold at prices that will 

 little more than, if in fact, fully cover 

 freight and charges, and it goes without 

 saying, therefore, that shippers all round 

 will lose heavily. Why the stock should 

 have gone off so suddenly we cannot 

 possibly understand, but seeing that ar- 

 rivals from all sources have been simi- 

 larly affected, we are inclined to the 

 belief that the weather must have been 

 too warm when packing operations were 

 in progress, a theory which is amply 

 justified by the very heavy shrinkage 

 seen in so many of the barrels. In 

 spite of all this, we do not wish ship- 

 pers to be altogether discouraged, as 

 the trade is still able to appreciate fruit 

 of good quality when it is available. 

 Even this week some few lots brought 

 fair prices, and the buyers' complaint is 

 that they cannot get sufficient to meet 

 their requirements, so that as soon as 

 reliable stock comes along there is no 

 doubt that things will brighten up again. 

 Fruit that is wormy and spotted, like 

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