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AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Ben Davis. Nova Scotia puts upon the London market Fameuse, Graven- 
stein, Tompkins King and even Northern Spy in perfect condition. Admit- 
ting that this can be done, and admitting another greater fact, that an Eng- 
lishman knows quality in apples, there, is no excuse for shipping inferior 
sorts, simply because they can be packed loosely and still carry fairly well. 
The other day, in a commission house in my own city, a connoisseur picked 
up a beautiful apple, and tasting it, remarked, “This is not fit to eat!” And 
the commission man responded, “Hardly, but it is a great shipper.” In a 
horticultural meeting last winter we were discussing desirable varieties for 
market, and several lovers of good apples emphasized the importance of 
growing Truits of higher quality than those generally found on the market, 
when a large grower remarked: “You may talk all you please about high 
quality in apples; I shall continue to grow the Ben Davis because there is 
money in it.” I do not expect to deter the large growers of apples from 
putting on the market fruit like the Ben Davis, in which they find an immedi- 
ate large margin of profit; but I do wish to emphasize and maintain that the 
greater proportion of apples placed upon the market (are put there by small 
growers. These men wall not find the largest margin of profit in fruits of the 
type of Ben Davis, Cabashea, Gilliflower, Pennock, or even Baldwfin. These 
growers raise fruits for their own use, and put upon the market the surplus. 
They deal with the same individuals year after year. An apple that pleases 
the consumer in every way is the one he will demand from year to year. If 
this demand can be satisfied by the grower, he has a profitable market for 
that quality of fruit. 
In a recent discussion on early apples at the meeting of the Grand River 
Valley Horticultural Society, a majority of the market growers were opposed 
to the Primate as a market variety because, they said, it is not attractive in 
appearance, it does not ripen evenly, and will not pay to grow. But one 
gentleman said the Primate w r as the most profitable apple he had at its period 
of ripening because he had a few customers wdio appreciated it and would 
have nothing else, and would pay him his price for it. In the same meeting 
• we discussed the Gravenstein, and the consensus of opinion was that it would 
not pay to grow this variety for market. But one man said that his tree of 
Gravensteins was the most profitable single tree he had in his orchard. Upon 
inquiry I found that his market was with certain individuals who appreciated 
the high cooking qualities of the Gravenstein, w r ould have nothing else, and 
were willing to pay a large price for it. 
A friend of mine has a little orchard of Red Canada, Wagener, Jonathan 
and Tompkins King. These, as you all well know, are rated by the authorities 
as having high quality. My friend has a line of trade that takes his output 
of these varieties at a high price, no matter whal the ruling price for ordi- 
nary varieties on the market may be. He makes them far more profitable 
than any of his other winter varieties, which include all of the common sorts 
found on the market. 
The nurseryman will not advise the orchardist to plant the Red Canada 
and Jonathan, because they are poor growers in the nursery, and he cannot 
afford to raise them at the price he can get, but this should cut no figure 
with the grow r er. He should plant the varieties that wfill give him the high- 
est satisfaction and the largest income. I make these two points together 
because they are equally important. It is worth just as much to a man to 
get keen satisfaction from the things he puts on the market as it is to make 
