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also appears the Yellow Bellflower, which in this market has, for so- 

 many years, sold higher that any other variety during? its season, while 

 it lasted. The supply of the Yellow Bellflower the present season 

 has been the smallest known in the experience of the writer, a fact 

 which enabled the Jonathan, an apple of great merit, to take a decided 

 step to the front. Indeed the Jonathan was almost unknown to the 

 general purchaser until this season, when it became all the rage, sell- 

 ing as it did, when the market was glutted, at $2 per barrel when fine 

 Ben Davis were offered side by side at $1.40 per barrel. However,, 

 this is no reflection on the Ben Davis, since any orther variety would 

 have suffered by comparison during its season in the market. For a 

 month or six weeks the local demand would take but little else, and 

 were willing to pay the difference and the shippers, too, were liberal 

 patrons. The grower who has a crop of Jonathans next season is sure 

 of fine prices regardless of the general supply or condition of our 

 market, a fact that should stimulate growers to raise more of them. It 

 is, I think, the finest eating apple before the public. That excellent 

 variety, the Eome Beauty, which always figures conspicuously in the 

 apple market from September, did not even have a ghost of a show 

 with the Jonathans. The supply of the Rome Beauty was unusually 

 light this year, a fact regretted by most of the dealers, and its absence 

 at this time leaves a void in the market not easily filled. 



The Willow Twig and I^ewtown Pippin are purchased freely dur- 

 ing November for storing purposes ; the latter, however, is not as de- 

 sirable as the former variety, lacking in size especially. 



The Ben Davis, which comes here so freely during October and 

 November, notwithstanding the great crop thrown in the market thi& 

 season, stands undisturbed, the great apple for commercial purposes^ 

 For a while nearly half the entire receipts were Ben Davis, especially 

 during October. No variety was ever before put to such a test. How 

 could it head the list of high priced apples ? No other variety grown 

 would bring the same price if shipped in such quantities or comprised 

 such a large portion of the receipts. We can readily see the Ben Davis 

 could not be replaced. Give it a better show in the struggle for exist- 

 ence by planting a few more Eome Beauties, Winesaps, Willow Twigs 

 and Huntsman's Favorite. The latter variety has caught the public 

 eye and commanded fancy prices, appearing about the first of November 

 and now (Dec. Gth) nearly gone. 



.1 had almost forgot to mention the Domine, which appeared here 

 in large quantities this fall. The price paid' for it averaged lower than, 

 perhaps, was offered for any other variety. It has nothing in particu,- 



