168 THE CANADIAN HORTICULTUKIST, 



yet been found in all the Western States where it is to be depended 

 upon. Hence there is not likely ever to be a very large supply, and 

 prices of this variety will always rule high. The truth is we are at a 

 loss which varieties to take for our fifth and sixth. The Nortliern Spy 

 will be chosen by some. It is an excellent ax)ple, and is now selling in 

 Liverpool at from eleven to fourteen and sixpence. But it is a long 

 time in coming into bearing, and the skin is so very delicate that it 

 needs extra care in handling lest it become bruised, and have a 

 battered appearance when the barrels are opened. 



Some will name the King of Tompkins County, but the fruit of this 

 variety is so large that it does not meet the wants of the best class of 

 buyers in England, and because of its size is very apt to drop or be 

 blown off the tree, so that a large part of the crop is often unfit for 

 shipping. Perhaps tlie Wagner, which brings from fourteen to seven- 

 teen sliillings per barrel, would be a good sort to place as fifth in the list. 

 The tree is very healthy and vigorous, bears young and abundantly ; 

 and yet after all would it not be as .well to plant a few more of the 

 Golden Eusset and so fill up the orchard as to multiply the kinds ? 



The writer in the St. Catharines Journal also says that " the 

 greatest care and cleanliness should be exercised in packing and ship- 

 ment, so that the fruit will reach its destination in good condition." 

 These are words we would commend to the most careful consideration 

 -of every shipper of fruit. In no point do our shippers need reformation 

 •more than in the selection and packing of their fruit for market. 

 Hear what Mr. Cochrane says: "Thousands of barrels have been 

 shipped to this market of a quality that should never have been sent. 

 If shippers had forwarded half the quantity and confined themselves 

 to the finest fruit, the result would have been more satisfactory. An 

 opinion seems to prevail that anything will sell in this country ; this 

 is true in a sense, but the results must be woefully disappointing to 

 shippers." It pays to exercise the utmost care — care that to men 

 used to the rough and ready style so common amongst us seems like 

 a waste of time. It will pay to examine each apple carefully, and if 

 any blemish be found, any imperfection, any appearance of a worm 

 within or any mark of a worm without, to reject it. It will pay to 

 wrap each apple found to be perfect in one or two wrappings of tissue 

 paper, or other thin soft paper. It will pay to put each apple when 

 •so wrapped carefully into the barrel by hand and pack them in one by 



