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season, a list of orchards, and probable number of baskets of fruit for 

 sale in each. This item would be very desirable for the Englisli 

 buyers who come here for their winter stock. 



As orchards are multiplied it will be necessary to institute artificial 

 drying machines, as this is the only legitimate method for making the 

 apple saleable in all climates ; and so great a perfection has this 

 method reached of doing up this fruit that it is difficult after it has 

 been cooked to tell whether the fruit was not fresh gathered in the 

 morning for the pie which graces the dinner table. In all tropical 

 climates where the apple cannot be grown, a great want of it is felt 

 amongst European restaurants. No southern grown fruit has yet been 

 found able to take its place for permanent use. The canning establish- 

 ments of California are monopolizing the trade of preserved fruits 

 with India, why should not the extensive orchards of Canada under- 

 take to provide that country, the West Indies and South America 

 with dried fruit, to which potatoes, &c., might be added ? When west 

 last September I saw hundreds of bushels of apples rotting on the 

 ground. Sheep, pigs and cattle were being fed with them, and yet 

 they could not be disposed of Most excellent fruit was being sold 

 at twenty-five cts. per bushel, and the price was considered a good one. 



It is now time for the Association to take action in giving fruit 

 growers a standard of fruits to cultivate for the home markets and for 

 export out of the long list of fruits in the catalogues, amounting to 

 hundreds of varieties. Not more than from ten to twenty are enquired 

 after in local or foreign markets, or in Chose parts of the Province 

 where they cannot be cultivated. Of grapes, peaches, plums and pears 

 the names are hardly yet known to buyers, and of strawberries only 

 two or three kinds are shipped to a distance. It would be a good 

 plan if shippers' would label their fruits not only with their own names 

 and residences but also the name of the fruit ; this is seldom done 

 except with regard to apples, but I am convinced as the fruit question 

 becomes more understood all kinds will sell better if its name is 

 attached to the label. 



The society should also issue a list of fruits most suitable for the 

 various counties of this Province ; this would be invaluable to inten- 

 ding planters. 



The cultivation of fruits has largely increased since the formation 

 of our society, and it is rapidly extending as only those know who 



