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^j.row'crs about Grimsby have entered into some such arrangement 

 We trust that some of our readers there will give us an account of its 

 working, and how far it has proved to be profitable to the producer. 



The St. Catharines Journal further suggests that the Fruit Growers' 

 Association of Ontario should add to its deliberations such questions 

 as " How fruit can be packed to advantage ? The best varieties for 

 shipment to foreign countries ? How to secure permanent markets ? 

 If our readers are not aware that such questions have been very 

 thoroughly discussed at the meetings of the Association, we desire to 

 refer them to the Report for 1875, p. 71 to 80. These are, however, 

 very important questions which will be frequently recurring, and which 

 will need to be discussed often in the light of later experience and 

 further developments of the traffic. 



An apology is dne to our readers for taking up so much space with 

 the discussion of this subject. Our apology is its importance. It is 

 very discouraging when one has grown fruit for market to find that 

 market not remunerative. If we have been able at this time to show 

 why that market may not have proved to be remunerative, or have 

 given such reasons for more care in the growing, selecting and marketing 

 •of fruit that any shall be induced to put our suggestions to the test of 

 thorough trial, we are confident that such will, when the results come 

 to be realized, not feel that too much space has been given to this 

 matter. Theare is abundant room for first-class fruit, put up in first- 

 class style ; such fruit will always command remunerative prices. It 

 is high time Canadian fruit growers dropped the old slip-shod style, 

 and earned for themselves, what they can easily do, the reputation of 

 sending to market the best fruit only, and thereby reaping the pecuniary 

 reward that is sure to follow. 



THE POCKLINGTON GRAPE. 



An exceedingly modest nian from Wasliington County, a novice in 

 grape culture, exhibited a beautiful white seedling grape year after year at 

 our Rochester fair.s, held usually about Sept. loth. The ciustar and berries 

 were exceedingly large and tiue, and the grajjc was a native beyond question; 

 yet year after year this man returned to his home without linding, among 

 all the shrewd, observing and enterprising nurserymen in the city of 

 flowers and vines, any one to take an interest in it far enough to pro[)agate 

 it. The quality is too poor, said the wise ones, with smirk and sputter. 

 True, it was then littl« better than the Concord ia quality, but it was not 



