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Notes and Comments. 



The fruit display made by the Nova Scotia fruit Growers' Association 

 during the month of October at the World's Fair, in charge of the excellent 

 President of that Association, Mr. J. W. Bigelow, was most creditable to that 

 province. An excellent plan was the massing of varieties. At a world's fair 

 little attention is given a single plate or two of a variety, however fine, but when 

 Nova Scotia set out a hundred plates of attractive Gravenstein apples alone, 

 and erected an elegant monument of magnificent Kings, from the Annapolis 

 Valley, it was no wonder that people stopped and admired, asked many ques- 

 tions of Mr. Bigelow, and then passed on saying that it was the finest exhibit 

 they had seen in the Building. 



British Columbia showed some immense samples of apples during 

 October, so that if last, she is by no means the least among our fruit growing 

 provinces. One red Bietigheimer, from A. Clemes, Spences Bridge, weighed 

 24^ ounces, and measured i$}{ inches in circumference. This was for some 

 time the largest apple shown at the World's Fair. Her Baldwins and Greenings 

 are enormous ; her Ben Davis are as large as those of Oregon and Idaho, and 

 will make a most attractive market apple, in spite of its poor quality. 



But one of the most noticeable apples in the collection was the fine samples 

 of that high flavored old favorite, the Esopus Spitzenberg, which can no longer 

 be grown in Ontario and New York State with satisfaction. These were not 

 only of a fine size, but of a high color and perfectly clean. The Fameuse and 

 the Swazie Pomme Gris too were excellent. Surely there is a wonderful future 

 for the Fraser Valley in the line of commercial orcharding ; and now that 

 Lord Aberdeen has set so good an example by planting in it a very extensive 

 Orchard, no doubt the great possibilities of that section will soon be appreciated. 



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