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A SHiPiviENT OF Plums, Pears and 

 Tomatoes is being made to Great 

 Britain by Mr. G. E. Fisher, of Bur- 

 lington, by steamer Numidian. Should 

 these experiments prove a success, a fine 

 export trade in Canadian fruit will soon 

 be developed. 



The First Shipment of Canadian 

 tender fruits by cold storage left 

 Grimsby on Tuesday, the 7th, to be for- 

 warded by steamer Merrimac to Lon- 

 don, via Bristol. It consisted of 890 

 cases of Bartlett pears, Crawford peaches 

 and tomatoes, each case containing 

 about a bushel of the choicest fruit. 

 Mr. J. W. Robertson examined the fruit 

 at Montreal as it was loaded, and found 

 it in good condition, but some cases of 

 peaches were too ripe, and the pears 

 not graded high enough. The arrival 

 and sale of this fruit in London, Eng- 

 land, will be watched with great interest. 



The English Fruit Market. — 

 Messrs. R. Marks & Sons, of Leeds, 

 quote Williams (or Bartlett) pears $1 

 per case of 48, and tomatoes at 8 to 10 

 cents a pound. 



The First Cold Storage Shipment 

 of fruit to England was photographed 

 by Mr. E. S. McCully, Grimsby, the 

 picture showing drays of cases, the 

 loaded car, the shippers and the ware- 

 house. 



Magnificent Gladioli. — On the 

 29th of Aug. we received a large basket 

 of cut blooms of Gladioli, huge spikes 

 of the loveliest colors, enough to give 

 one a mania for growing this flower. 

 How few realize the possibilities before 

 one of Mr. Groff's scientific turn, who 

 by hybridizing can produce such end- 

 less shades of rich colors, both plain 



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