148 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



our people would speak of it with pride. But no intelligent Canadian will 

 make such an assertion. 



Is it not strange that there are yet American writers who are not aware 

 that Canada is greatly superior to the United States as a fruit-growing 

 country ? The lessons learned by so many eminent Americans at the 

 American Pomological Societies' Exhibition at Boston, in 1873, and at the 

 Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, in 1876, seems to have been lost on 

 this class of writers. 



Lindsay, April, i8go. THOS. BEALL. 



APPLE GROWING PAYS. 



/^yOME say last year apples were a drug, and worth nothing. Partly 

 /^^ true, although I sold 700 barrels, which netted me $1.40 per barrel, or 

 $980, and my orchard being about six acres, that means $163 per acre. 

 This year you will have no reason to complain of the want of a market. 

 Apples were a failure nearly all over, but like the merchant we must take 

 one year with another, one poor year shouldn't discourage us. Apples are 

 wholesome. You all like them, in fact you must have them. If you don't 

 raise them, you pay your more plucky neighbor to do it for you. They save 

 food, and reduce the doctor's bill, and when we get this reduced to a 

 minimum, if there are any doctors here to-day I can assure them we will 

 willingly by voluntary subscription pay them well, for keepmg us well. This 

 year, Mr. Raymond, of Dickinson's Landing, gathered 2,000 bushels of apples, 

 and sold none of them under $1.00 a bushel. Deducting $400 for expenses, 

 he will have a net profit of at least $1,600 from six acres. 



Mr. Dempsey, of Trenton, an experienced and extensive orchardist, says 

 we can, safely calculate, one year with another, when trees are arrived at 

 ■ their full age, on $100 per acre profit on the orchard. 



On the principle that it is not good to have all your eggs in one basket, 

 we would say plant an orchard. Your grain may rust or be destroyed by 

 the fly or other insects ; potatoes often fail you ; corn sometimes does not 

 ripen.- You say there is a great deal of work about an orchard. So there is; 

 but the heaviest part of it comes at a comparatively slack time. There is 

 work, hard and hurried too in ploughing and sowing your wheat land, and in 

 clearing and taking your grain to market. 



Aultsville. JOHN CROIL. 



Profitable Apples. — " Wealthy " is the most profitable, with "Duchess " 

 second. At twenty-five cents a bushel " Duchess " will in ten years pay $100 

 an acre. — Harvey Fuller, Minn. 



