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THE DOMINION CONVENTION OF FRUIT GROWERS.— HI. 



BEST APPLES FOR EXPORT— RUSSIAN VARIETIES— FORESTRY. 



THE export of winter apples was taken up by Mr. J. T. McBride, of 

 Montreal. He thought that the Spy and the Greening would do 

 better sold in our home markets than exported. As a general rule 

 he had found that the earlier shipments made more money than the later 

 ones. One thing he protested against, and that was the bringing 

 in of American apples to Montreal and the re-branding them as Canadian 

 before exporting them, because Canadian apples were in the best demand. 

 On the whole he was of the opinion that more money was lost than was 

 made in shipping apples, and that the number of shippers who had become 

 rich by the exportation of apples, could be counted upon the fingers of one 

 hand. 



Mr. Shepherd, of Montreal, had experimented with the Cochrane fruit 

 case, which was illustrated in the Canadian Horticulturist, Vol. XI, 

 pages 115, 116, and had great success with it in exporting tender apples. 

 For instance, the Wealthy was a tender apple, and he had tried shipping 

 it to the British market, each apple being packed in a separate compart- 

 ment in this case, somewhat in the way in which eggs were sometimes 

 packed for shipment. The report of the consignee was that the Wealthy 

 was a " superb apple," In such a package he believed that the Wealthy 

 and other such tender apples could be shipped with perfect success. 



Mr. C. R. W. Starr, of Nova Scotia, speaking of the great apple of his 

 Province, the Gravenstein, said that it had become popular in England, 

 and was wanted in regular shipments to keep up the demand which had 

 been created for it. Last year the crop of this apple had failed in Nova 

 Scotia, and German Gravensteins had been imported, and these might 

 henceforth prove to be strong competitors. Formerly it had been very 

 profitable to ship Nova Scotia Nonpariels to England in the month of May, 

 but now that Australian fruit had begun to come to the English market in 

 the middle of April, it was found necessary to get the Nonpariels. in before 

 those began to arrive. He thought that apples ought to be sold in the 

 British market by private sale, as is done with potatoes. An effort had 

 been made in this direction in the interest of Nova Scotia fruit, and to some 

 extent had proved successful. With regard to the ventilated barrel, his 

 experience so far was unfavorable, on account of the foul air on shipboard, 

 but possibly with well ventilated compartments, this would be obviated. 

 For railway transit this barrel no doubt would have advantages, except in 

 cold weather. Mr. Starr had tried the Cox's Orange Pippin as an export 

 apple, but it was a poor grower and consequently paid less profit than some 

 other varieties. The Newtown Pippin was less and less grown on account 

 of its being so very subject to the scab, which made it unprofitable. 



