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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



tar, but since I put on the protector there 

 are none. Had I known of the protector 

 sooner I believe I could have saved some 

 fine fi\e-year-old peach trees, which I lost 

 with the borer, for it attacks the tree near 

 the surface of the ground. You say your 

 custom is to' bank up all the young trees 

 throughout your orchards with fine earth, 

 after clearing away all rubbish with a good 

 sharp spade. What a cost that must be, and 

 then in spring, I suppose you have to take 

 it away again. Now, I save my trees at 



three cents each, for the cost of putting the 

 protectors on and off amounts to nothing. 

 My plan is to put a lot of, say one dozen, to- 

 gether, rolled up, and then, opening them out 

 a little, to draw out one at a time, and put it 

 about the tree without tying ; and this can be 

 done in about a minute for each tree. I 

 leave them on altogether, sliding it up a 

 little, if I want it away from the surface of 

 the ground. I would not be without mine 

 for a great deal. — Thos. G. Caston, Hamil- 

 ton, Out. 



Odp Imiit jyTarkcts. 



Hull, England. 



The following lines from a letter from 

 Messrs. John Seed & Sons, Hull, may be in- 

 teresting, as showing the opening which ex- 

 ists for Canadian, apples in many towns of 

 England, not so favorably situated as Liver- 

 pool : — "Our port has hitherto had very 

 little connection with Canada for apple trade 

 but there is no reason why a good business 

 should not be done here. Of course, we 

 cannot take the large quantities as Liver- 

 pool, but our prices are usually a shade 

 higher for everything and direct shippers 

 receive the advantage. Last week, 15,000 

 barrels came in here. American and Cana- 

 dian apples, rather depressed the market. 



Philadelphia 



Sir, — Below we hand you a summary of 

 the present conditions of our good potato 

 market with current quotations, and to 

 which we invite your careful attention. 



Comparatively, our market is in rather 

 light supply. Arrivals are also light. These 

 conditions give our market a favorable out- 

 look, particularly for choice N. Y. White 

 Stars, Burbanks and Hebron, and other nor- 

 thern and western grown choice table var- 

 ieties. Maine, New Brunswick and other 

 Can. Rose and Ohio Rose are also in 

 scant supply and active demand, being 

 wanted for seed purposes by our southern 

 custom. If you have any choice stock to 

 dispose of, it will be to your interest to con- 

 sult us about the handling of it at once. 



Table Stock, we quote: Choice N. Y. 

 White Stars, 40 cents per bushel, Hebron, 

 40 to 43 cents per bushel ; Burbanks, 40 cents 

 per bushel ; strictly fancy, 2 to 3 cents per 

 bushel more ; rough stock and other varie- 

 ties, 35 to 38 cents per bushel. Seed Stock 

 we quote : N. Y. Rose choice, 50 to 52 cents 

 per bushel ; Ohio and Pa. choice 52, to 55 

 cents per bushel ; Maine, New Brunswick 

 and Canada choice, 58 to 60 cents per bushel 

 ajid ?i.75to $1.85 per barrel ; Hebron, I1.40 



to ^150 per barrel and 50 to 53 cents per 

 bushel. 



Whenever we can serve you please to 

 order. — Pancoast& Griffiths, Jan. 7th, '89. 



London, England. 



Sir, — By cable to-day from W.N.White, 

 fruit broker, Covent Garden Market, -London, 

 England, we are advised as follows: viz., 

 Market strong, prices advanced, quotations 

 now IIS. to i6s., considerable decrease in 

 supplies, prices will go higher, immediate 

 shipments would meet ready sale. — W. T. 

 CosTiGAN & Co., Montreal. 



Liverpool. 



Sir, — Arrivals since our last have been 

 greatly reduced and prices show a slight im- 

 provement with better tendency. We quote: 

 Baldwins 8s. to los. 3d., Greenings gs. to 

 gs.gd.. Spies 6s. to gs.. Russets gs. to 13s., 

 Various ys. 3d. to 13s. 6d., one parcel of extra 

 fine Kings realized 22s. 6d. A percentage of 

 last arrivals show signs of having been 

 touched by frost. The market with a con- 

 tinuance of light shipments must improve. 

 Awaiting your favors. — Wm. Thomas & Co. 



Fruit Imports. 



Mr. G. S. Morphy, fruit grower, Grimsby, 

 hands us the following letter from Mr. F. E. 

 Galbraith, Toronto. It is evidently unfair to 

 fruitgrowers, that, while the policy of pro- 

 tection is followed in the interests of manu- 

 facturers it should not also be in the interests 

 of fruit growers. In the line of apples, how- 

 ever, more evil than good would result from 

 an import dutv, because our exports far 

 exceed our imports. For instance in 1887, we 

 only imported from the U. S. 36,000 bbls., 

 while we exported to that country over 

 100,000. Mr. Galbraith writes : 



Sir, — As you are, no doubt, already aware 

 there is no protection to the thousands of 



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