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New Zealand, apples have been coming for several years, the varieties being very fine in 

 quality and size, but there were no large consignments until 1891, when about 8,000 boxes 

 reached the market. Victoria has taken up the trade with a good deal of energy, and 

 hopes to secure a substantial share in it in the course of a few years. Under the scheme 

 already referred to, the Government of that colony offered bonuses for every acre of land 

 brought under cultivation for fruit trees or vines, and for every hundredweight of fruit 

 exported. They also send out experts to advise as to the selection of sites for orchards and 

 vineyards, and as to the various processes of trenching, planting, pruning, packing, and 

 shipping; defraying, too, as in the case of butter, all cost of railway transit, and even 

 undertaking, if desired, to find an agent in London for the sale of the fruit on its arrival 

 here. The result of all this, as regards the effect on the colony itself, cannot be better 

 described than by giving the following extract from the official memorandum of last 

 August : 



The grant of £75,000 as bonuses to growers of grapes, fruits, and general vegetable 

 products has been the means of greatly stimulating the vine and fruit industries ; 1,047 

 applications for bonuses for planting a total of 9,468 acres of vines have been approved, 

 and 925 applications for bonuses for planting 4,936 acres of fruit trees have likewise been 

 granted, also 8 applications for 346 acres of general vegetable products. The objects of 

 the grant are being accomplished, the area of vineyards and orchards having been increased 

 from 40,419 acres in 1889 to 54,550 acres in 1891. Farmers, who formerly devoted all 

 their energies to growing cereals and grazing stock, have added vine or fruit-growing to 

 their means of making a livelihood, and, with the aid given by bonuses, and the knowledge 

 imparted by the experts, vines and fruit trees are now growing in districts in which no 

 attention had previously been given to such culture. 



I am, sir, yours faithfully, 



Suffolk Lodge, Oakville, Ont. 



George Bunburv. 



THE GREENVILLE STRAWBERRY 



Is a new claimant for the first place among profit- 

 able varieties for the market gardener. It is an 

 accidental seedling and has been tested at several 

 Experiment Stations with favorable results. Dr. 

 Collier, of the Geneva Experiment Station, writes : 

 " Our Bulletin speaks of the Greenville thus ; — 

 The Beder Wood, the most productive variety this 

 season, is followed very closely by the Greenville, 

 and as the Greenville has the advantage of being 

 larger, would probably sell for more per quart than 

 the Beder Wood." 



Garden and Forest says of it : " The Beder 

 Wood heads the list for productiveness, with Green- 

 ville, a seedling from Ohio, a close second; the fruits of which are so much 

 larger and finer in appearance than the Beder Wood, that it is probable that the 

 receipts from the sale of the yield of the two varieties would be in favor of the 

 Greenville." 





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