. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 24 BETTER FRUIT January, 1^20 fT'uit is a new vai-iety produced by \V. \V. Scott at his I-'ruitvale ranch. Some persons profess to belie\'e the itainier is a sport from the Delicious and llie Hiibbertson Nonsuch. It has tlie spiciness and juice of the former and resembles it in shape ^^hile in appear- ance it favors the latter. .\s a keeper, how- ever, the Rainier is claimed to far excel either variety. The Yakima Coimty Horticultural Union says the Itainier has been sold for con- sumption in July and August and that it is an long keeper. Ca
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 24 BETTER FRUIT January, 1^20 fT'uit is a new vai-iety produced by \V. \V. Scott at his I-'ruitvale ranch. Some persons profess to belie\'e the itainier is a sport from the Delicious and llie Hiibbertson Nonsuch. It has tlie spiciness and juice of the former and resembles it in shape ^^hile in appear- ance it favors the latter. .\s a keeper, how- ever, the Rainier is claimed to far excel either variety. The Yakima Coimty Horticultural Union says the Itainier has been sold for con- sumption in July and August and that it is an long keeper. Canada is buying virtually no American apples this year, according to P. R. Parks, general manager of the Spokane Kruit Grow- ers Company. In the past the northwestern provinces have been large consumers of Wash- ington boxed apples, particularly the "C" grade. The Okanogan districts of British Co- luinliia hnve big orchards in bearing this year for the llrst time and are supplying the northwestern Canadian trade. The policy of "Buy-in-C:mada" is being vigorously pressed since the war. American ai>iiles pay a duty of about M cents a box when they cross the line. "Prices are not quite as high as tliev were earlier in the season because of indis- criminate shipijing, but they arc higher than they were a year ago, barring the fancy figures received for a little stulV at the cnii oi the season. The growers will realize handsome returns this year again, although the crop is slightly under that of a year ago," according to Mr. Parks. A pile of ." boxes of apples was one of the sights of the warehouse district at Grand- view, Wash., the pile being owned by the Washington Dehydrated Kood Company, "to be Last Big Block of the Canadian Pacific Reserved Farm Lands THIS announces the offering of the last big block of the Canadian Pacific Reserved Farm Lands. Until this block is disposed of you can secure at low cost a farm home in Western Cana
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