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more than forty-three pounds of potash. This suggests the use of ashes, or 

 of the potash salts, as a dressing for orchards. 



In reply to an inquiry concerning the distance at which fruit should 

 be allowed to remain, the editor of the Country Gentleman says : — the dis- 

 tance will vary with the size of varieties, and with the intended uses of the 

 crops; but as a general or approximate rule, large peaches should be four or 

 five inches apart on the bearing branches, ^nd small or early ones three or 

 four inches ; pears should be at quite as great distances, with more variation 

 for differences in size, for while such diminutive pears as the Summer 

 Doyenne need not be more than two or three inches apart, the Angouleme 

 should be at least six inches. Plums may be rather less than peaches, but 

 the necessity of thinning is even more urgent, to save from rotting. Any 

 orchardist may have observed the improved quality, as well as size, in 

 apples with a moderate crop, and should thin accordingly. It should not 

 be forgotten or overlooked that fruit properly thinned is so much improved 

 in quality, as well as size, that no loss m the magnitude of the crop occurs, 

 and a positive gain in quality and price is secured by thinning. 



TRADE IN CHOPPED APPLES. 



IT is stated that the export trade in chopped apples — a dried product fron* 

 inferior fruit and material left after the preparation of the best quality 

 of evaporated fruit— had increased from small orders in 1880 to 11,000,- 

 000 pounds in 1888, and 20,000,000 pounds could have been sold in 1889^ 

 Cider is consumed in France at the rate of 276,000,000 gallons annually.^ 

 American chopped apples are largely used for conversion into cider, and 

 preferred to the home-grown article, being better preserved and of finer 

 flavor. It appears now that there is room for all we will be able to exports 



TASMANIAN APPLES. 



®N April 28th, 2,400 cases of these were sold in Covent Garden Market- 

 They consisted chiefly of Ribstons, Cox's Orange Pippin, Scarlet 

 Nonpareil and King Pippin, other kinds, including Sturmer Pippin, 

 Blenheim Orange, Prince Albert and Crow's Egg, also several cases of 

 Pears. There can be no doubt that in the near future these Australian 

 apples will take a very important place among foreign fruit imports. It 

 cannot well be otherwise, for they have no competitors worth speaking of^ 

 our own apple season being practically at an end by the time they are due^ 

 They have but one fault, and that is a want of that crispness that distin- 

 guishes good fruit of home growth. But they have what is perhaps more 



