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bright red and yellowish white ; flesh, 

 tender and good quality, or perhaps fine 

 quality. Size of Fameuse. Season, Oct. i 

 to 15, and not much longer, and shows 

 bruises, etc., a good deal, and in these ways 

 not satisfactory. 



I said season not much longer than Oct. 

 15, but pick carefully and put into cellar 

 before too ripe, and it might keep a long time. 



Blushed Calville has only borne with me 

 two little specimens in nursery, and did not 

 strike me. 



Arabka (of EUwanger & Barry) is young 

 and abundant bearer, vigorous grower and 

 rather upright, and fruit large — in fact very 

 large, and deep purplish red with lovely 

 bloom, and keeps longer than Longfield. 

 My five trees were a perfect sight, but 

 quality acid and thin 



Vargul fruited in nursery by my neighbor, 

 John M. Fisk, is the Russian apple of finest 

 quality we have grown here. 



Furstlicher Tafelaffel (Royal Table) hails 

 from Schroedu, of Moscow, and though 

 marked tender by him, is quite hardy, so far 

 with me. It is a )X)ung and abundant 

 bearer, good size, good quality, good both in 

 texture and flavor, and seems likely to keep 

 some time. I have but two little trees of it, 

 and it is very promising. It and Repka of 

 Dep. of Agr., would seem to be my best 

 keepers. 



I cannot yet recommend. I have given 

 you my facts so far. 



1 could send you some scions of some, but 

 not in quantity. — C. Gibb, Abbotsford, P.Q., 

 gth Nov., 1888. 



Oar Tmiit JVTarkets. 



The Apple Glut. 



Never before in the history of the apple 

 trade was such a glut of supplies flung upon 

 the market on both sides of the Atlantic as 

 at present, and it is thought that several 

 weeks must elapse before a clearance can be 

 effected. Cable advices from Liverpool on 

 Wednesday reported sales of good Baldwins 

 and Spies at gs. to iis., with the market 

 sick and declining. One of our large 

 shippers informed us that about 18,000 

 bbls. of frosted apples were on the way to 

 Liverpool from Portland alone, and that a 

 large quantity shipped from Boston was in 

 the same condition. Shippers, therefore, 

 dread the result of these damaged lots going 

 on the English market, and more unfavorable 

 returns are looked for. A London buyer 

 advanced %\ per barrel on a large lot of 

 apples booked on a through bill of lading 

 from the west by the S.S. Pomeranian, but 

 the apples could not be put on board, and 

 were frozen as hard as cannon balls on the 

 wharf. It is estimated that the stocks 

 in store in this city are about 75,000 bar- 

 rels, although some believe there are more. 

 One of our oldest and richest apple dealers 

 made the following remark a few days ago : 

 — " This is a most extraordinary apple year, 

 and we have all got bitten through paying 

 too high prices." 



Regarding the English market, a large 

 Liverpool firm writes : — " The arrival of two 

 large cargoes yesterday from Boston proved 

 too much for our market, and prices had at 

 length to give way. Boston Baldwins sold 

 freely at 8s. gd., gs. 6d., los. and los. 6d. for 

 really good fruit, and with the prospect of 

 60,000 to 70,000 due next week, we do not 

 see much chance of any immediate recovery. 

 Ntv>f York fruit participated in the decline. 



Baldwins made los. 6d. to iis. 6d. A great 

 deal of poor and wasty stuff is also coming 

 forward, and this does more damage to 

 prices than anything else. Buyers are 

 afraid to buy when they see such quantities 

 of wasty apples, and will not bid for any but 

 choice lots." — Trade Bulletin, Dec, 1888. 



The Export Apple Trade. 



Recent mail advices from Liverpool, dated 

 December 8th, state that " the continued 

 heavy arri\-als have at length had such an 

 effect upon our market, that buyers have 

 positively to ha\e the fruit thrust upon them, 

 and that at their own prices. Good New 

 England fruit continues to sell at 8s. gd. up to 

 8s. 6d., while New Yorks are neglected atgs. 

 to los., a very few parcels of choice fruit 

 making iis. to 12s. Canadian arrivals are 

 exceptionally heavy, the last three steamers 

 from Montreal docking within a few hours 

 of each other 36,000 barrels. Very many of 

 these were small and of poor quality, and 

 sold at gs. to los 6d., while the rejections of 

 ' slack packed ' and wet have been excep- 

 tionally heavy, having evidently suffered from 

 long passage in severe weather. In London, 

 they have had two steamers direct with 

 35,000 barrels, the prices obtained meeting 

 about the same as Liverpool, while a lot of 

 Nova Scotians sold for 7s. 6d. to 13s. 6d. It 

 will take until after Christmas to clear off 

 the accumulated stocks, when we should see 

 better prices." 



Montreal. 



Apples. — The market is as dull and un- 

 satisfactory as it can be imagined, sales of 

 frozen fruit having been made at 42c. up to 

 ?! per barrel, which shows a big loss to 



