I20 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



Russets, and although they would take a few Kings or Spitzenbergs, they usually 

 objected to any other kinds. He also found that the fruit that makes the most 

 money is usually that which reaches market first, that is, of each variety as the 

 season advances. A pretty and attractive parcel was very important, and was 

 sure to command a higher price than the same fruit put up in an ordinary style. 



Iron Clad Apples. — By this term is meant such apples as cannot be seri- 

 ously injured by the winter's cold, and it is of course only a relative term. Dr. 

 Hoskins, of Newport, Vt., gave our Montreal friends the following list of iron- 

 clads : Mcintosh Red, Borsdorf, Bethel of Vermont, Tetofsky, Shiawassee 

 Beauty, Wealthy, McMahon's White, Northfield Beauty, Scott's Winter, 

 Iowa Russet, and Yellow Transparent. 



Mr. N. C. Fisk, of Abbotsford, gave the following as the most profitable 

 varieties for market for planting in the province of Quebec : Duchess, Wealthy 

 and Fameuse, standing thus in order of merit, but Dr. Hoskins claimed that the 

 Yellow Transparent was more profitable than the Duchess. 



The Golden White is very promising, and keeps, according to Dr Hoskins, 

 well into the month of January. 



Profitable Peach Growing. — Mr. J. H. Hale, of Massachusetts, seems to 

 have made a fortune out of peach growing. He thins the fruit by pruning the 

 trees after blooming, and afterwards picks off more than half the fruit. He 

 manures with ground bone and muriate of potash, applying looo pounds or 

 more of the former and 300 of the latter, to an acre. He finds that too much 

 stable manure causes short lived and unhealthy trees, but if any trees look 

 unthrifty, ne applies six or eight pounds of nitrate of soda to each. He has his 

 fruit nicely assorted and packed, employing ladies of good taste, who are paid as 

 high as $2.00 per day on account of their superior quahfications. The fruit is 

 put up in new baskets made of white poplar, labeled and guaranteed to be just 

 as good in the middle or bottom of the basket as on the top, and his fruit brings 

 from 75c. to $1.00 more than any other. He makes four grades. Last year, 

 according to the Rural New Yorker^ he sold 16,000 baskets, the best grade sell- 

 ing from $2.50 to $3.50 per basket, the culls from 15 to 40 cents, and the whole 

 averaging about $1.56. 



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