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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



It seems that our orchai'ds are just 

 recovering from a condition of barren- 

 ness and impoverishment to which for 

 several years they have been subject, 

 and which has been accompanied by the 

 destructive effects of insects and diseases 

 to an unprecedented extent. But now, 

 either as the result of better cultivation 

 and the more liberal application of fer- 

 tilizers, or from other causes beyond 

 the control of the fruit grower, our 

 orchards are showing this year a thrifty 

 growth, and a dark green healthy foliage 

 which gives us the greatest reassurance. 



All this combined with the splendid 

 foreign markets opening up for our 

 apples in England, Scotland, Norway 

 and Sweden, and even by the Pacific 

 route to the vast empire of India, can- 

 not fail to I'emove all fears that apple 

 growing will pi-ove an unprofitable in- 

 dustry in Canada. 



The privilege of wisely impi-oving the 



GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES 



now opening up, is ours. If we dis- 

 appoint the expectations of our foreign 

 friends whose opinions of our fruits 

 have been so highly exalted by the dis- 

 play at the Colonial, we shall fall into 

 a worse position than was our previous 

 obscurity. 



Our worthy President, Alex. McD. 

 Allan, gave us many excellent hints on 

 packing fruits for foreign shipments at 

 the Collingwood meeting. One impor- 

 tant point was the careful grading of 

 our apples, the large size, the small 

 but highly colored, and the uncolored, 

 all to be put up in separate packages ; 

 and only one grade to go in each 

 barrel. Indeed every package should 

 prove through and through alike in 

 quality, so that a buyer opening up 

 could scarcely say which end was in- 

 tended to be opened. For extra choice 

 apples he recommended the use of half- 

 barrels, as being more easily handled, 

 and more salable for high-priced fruit. 



It is proposed to have a 



CO-VVENTION OF APPLE (JROWEKS 



at our next annual meeting which will 

 be held at either Hamilton or Grimsby 

 in September next, in ordei- that this 

 question of our foreign markets may 

 be fully ventilated, and thus this im- 

 portant Canadian industry be further 

 promoted. Mr. A. McD. Allan has 

 been solicited to take up this subject 

 more or less in his annual address, by 

 some of our pi-ominent growers, and 

 certainly no man in Canada is so well 

 qualified to direct our enterprise to- 

 wards a successful issue as Canada's 

 Apple King. 



As this meeting will be in the very 

 heart of one of the foremost fruit pro- 

 ducing regions of Canada, where are to 

 be found some of the the most extensive 

 and expeiienced of our fruit growers, a 

 very large and enthusiastic gathering 

 may be confidently expected, in spite 

 even of the very busy season of the 

 year. 



THE DELAWARE RED WINTER. 



Among the new apples whose merits 

 are to be tested within the next few 

 years is the Delaware, of which our 

 coloured plate is claimed to be a faith- 

 ful representation. It is a seedling, 

 which originated on the farm of \Ym. 

 P. Corsa, and gets its name from the 

 State of Delawai-e in which it was 

 found. 



It is described thus : — '' Fruit medi- 

 um to large, round, bright red, highly 

 coloured ; flesh fine grained, crisp, 

 juicy, excellent, sub-acid; tree a vigor- 

 ous grower, an abundant an eaidy 

 bearer." As a market apple it is com- 

 pared with the Baldwin, and the 

 Northern Spy ; and it is thought to be 

 adapted for a more southern belt of 

 country than that in which these 

 varieties flourish. We do not know 

 that it has been as yet tested farther 

 north than the State of New Jersey. 



