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the Canadian Parliament covering the grading and packing 

 of apples whicli, if only fairly administered, means much for the 

 life of that industry. To-day in Canada, apples must be selected 

 and packed in conformity to governmental standard, any infrac- 

 tion of the law carrying a penalty sufficiently heavy to be a 

 burden to wrong doing. It is said, after a season's trial, that 

 this law is not working satisfactorily, but it at least suggests a 

 governmental foresight superior to that of the individual 

 Canadian fruit grower, who, impeded by a restrictive American 

 tariff at his border, can logically look to but one market for the 

 distribution of his important and constantly expanding crop 

 surplus. Who that has stood in any of the markets of the world 

 to which our special lines of perishables find their way has not 

 blushed at the sight of offerings unworthy of the name? It 

 was but last spring that a prominent commission firm at Liver- 

 pool wrote of a certain consignment of Russets from New York : 

 "It is a shame that any American of character should send such 

 trash to the English markets with the expectation of satisfactory 

 sale. The whole invoice after removal of the top layers is little 

 better than culls." A society of horticulturis'ts as prominent as 

 this, and which is bestowing so much time and thought upon 

 the subjects of conservation of soil, elimination of insect pests, 

 and the general physical up-building and expansion of orchard 

 and garden cultivation, can well afford to supplement its good 

 work by allying itself strongly upon the side of honorable 

 methods of marketing the developed product. The exalted 

 standard adopted by your distinguished colleague, Air. J. H. 

 Hale, of South Glastonbury, should be an inspiration to all 

 serious-minded horticulturists. His scientific skill in the grow- 

 ing of fruits is only exceeded by a studied choice of the most 

 marketable varieties, while his methods and style of grading and 

 packing have given him a name beyond reproach in all markets 

 he has entered. We have another in our own State of New 

 York, in the person of Mr. George T. Powell of Briarcliff 

 Manor, who, in addition to the study of how to produce, is ever 

 foremost in the discussion of how best to market his fruit crops. 

 Honesty of method is the prevailing instinct which dominates 

 the work of high-minded, practical men in all departments of 

 industrial life. The United States may well be proud of the 

 great galaxy of talent devoted to the elevation of fruit growing. 



