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per box, is ccjual to an average of $336 (£67 5s.) per 

 acre; Ontarios, live year old trees, yielded 1^ boxes 

 each, wiiich, at the same price, works out at an 

 average of $105 (£21) per acre; and Stark yielded 

 eighteen to twenty boxes each, which, at $1.25 per 

 box, comes to an average of $1,150 (£230) per acre. 

 Wit'i regard to cherries, Mr. Ilulbert states that even 

 after losing 50 per cent, of the blossoms on the crop 

 in 1908, tiiere was, nevertheless, a total increase, as 

 compared with the harvest of 1907, of 25 per cent. 

 Mr. Ilulbert's ranch is famous for its cherries, the 

 principal varieties being Royal Windsor, Lambert, 

 and Bing. He estimates that in 1908 the total gross 

 value of the crop per acre was $1,400 (£280), and the 

 total net value $900 (£180) per acre. Two trees of 

 Royal Windsor, eight years old, gave together twenty 

 boxes, equivalent to $12 (£2 10s.) per tree, or $840 

 (£168) per acre. Lambert cherries, about five years 

 old, yielded five boxes each, which sold for $2 each, 

 the box weighing 81b. net. This works out at an 

 average of $700 (£140) per acre. Plums, eight to 

 ten years old, yielded from $7.50 to $16.50 per tree, 

 the varieties being Imperial, Peach, Grand Duke, and 

 Bradshaw. This is equivalent, on the basis of 120 

 trees to the acre, to a gross yield of the value of $900 

 to $1,980 (£140 to £396) per acre. The chief varie- 

 ties of pears grown by Mr. Ilulbert are Bartlett 

 (Williams' Bon Chr^-tien), Flemish Beauty, and 

 KiefTer's Hybrid, all the trees being seven to eight 

 years old. The average yields in 1908 were $8 to 

 $12 per tree; which, at seventy-two trees to the acre, 

 gives an average of $576 to $854 (£115 to £171) per 

 acre. 



