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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



District No. 13. — Algoma, Simcoe, Muskoka and Parry Sound. — G. C. 

 Caston, Craighurst, Director. 



Summer. — Duchess of Oldenburgh and Yellow Transparent. 

 Autumn. — Alexander, Colvert, Red Beitigheimer and St. Lawrence. 

 Winter. — -Pewaukee, Golden Russett, Scott's Winter, LaRue and Ben Davis. 



In compiling the foregoing Fruit Lists we have consulted the Directors as 

 well as the leading fruit growers throughout the several Districts. We have also 

 tried to frame the lists so as to advise the planting of such varieties as bear the 

 highest general points for each district for hardiness, growth, bearing, shipping 

 quality of fruit and commercial values, both in local and foreign markets. In 

 point of season, we have drawn a line for summer apples up 'to September ist ; 

 autumn to December ist; and after that date, winter ; upon the understood prin- 

 ciple that varieties arriving at maturity within the periods named belong to such 

 seasons, although many, if not all, the varieties named are often kept and sold 

 in market later in the season. We are also well aware that a few of the varieties 

 named are placed in this list a little out of proper season so far as some sections 

 are concerned; but, as it is necessary to draw a line,'we have done so, taking the 

 Province into consideration and the area within which such varieties can be most 

 successfully cultivated. 



Thos. Beall. 



P. C. Dempsey, 



Alex. McD. Allan. 

 Trenton, ^th August, i8gi. 



A Convenient Fruit Packing Press. — The 

 press shown herewith and patented by Robert Randall 

 of New York, is designed to be operated by hand for 

 pressing dried fruits, etc., in a case when packing them 

 for market, and may also be adapted to the pressing 

 of juices from fresh fruits. The pressing roller or 

 wheel is mounted in a bracket depending from the 

 inner end of a hand lever, where the lever is also ful" 

 crumed in a bracket upon an upright. The box or 

 package to be filled is surmounted by a removable 

 frame, with depending flanges' holding it fairly on the 

 box and constituting a hopper. Any ordinary platen 

 follower is placed on the fruit or substance in the 

 hopper, and receives the pressure of the lever roller as 

 the fruit is forced down. The device is constructed 

 to weigh only about seventy pounds, so that it can be readily moved about a 

 warehouse or other place where it is used. — Scientific American. 



Fig. 00. — Fruit Packing Press. 



