JUDGING FRUITS 269 



ONTARIO SCORE-CARD FOR GRAPES 



In the judgment of the present writer, the 

 Ontario score-cards place too much weight 

 on quality in apples and flavor in grapes. It 

 is well known that color counts more than 

 quality in the market. Even if we renounce 

 the market standards altogether, and judge 

 apples and grapes solely from the standpoint 

 of the amateur, we shall still find it very diffi- 

 cult to discrjminate closely between two sam- 

 ples of Mclntosh or Maiden's Blush or Bartlett 

 on the point of quality. They will be more 

 readily (and quite as justly) separated on the 



