THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



This variety we have shipped to various 

 markets this season, e. g. to Liverpool, 

 Edinburgh and Glasgow. When the re- 

 ports come in we will make them public 

 for the benefit of the members of our 

 Association. The following is an extract 

 from the "Produce World" pubhshed 

 in London, Eng., dated 9th November, 

 1895. 



About three years ago a beautiful apple was 

 imported into Liverpool from Canada called 

 the Cranberry. This was a remarkable apple, 

 both in size and sweet, juicy taste. The 

 Baldwin is also a very fine apple, but people 

 were attached to the Cranberry, and it is 

 perhaps remarkable that the latter class of 

 fruit should not have been imported latterly. 

 Newton Pippins are a type of apple shipped 

 over the Atlantic ferry, and some people, in 

 fact, most people, are inclined to the belief 

 that this apple is unsurpassable ; but the 

 public taste is one of perhaps eccentric var- 



iety, and where one would place faith in the 

 Baldwin, another's penchant for the Pippin 

 was surprisingly funny. However, there ap- 

 peared to be little doubt as to the Cranberry's 

 excellence, and it ia a matter of regret that 

 the shipmeat ceased so abruptly, at any rate, 

 declined into utter insignificance as far as 

 Liverpool exportation is concerned. Hope is 

 expressecl that the next few days will bring 

 forth a bigger shipment, and my informant 

 before-mentioned has graciously acquainted 

 me of the fact that since advising me of the 

 Campania^ shipment from New York, another 

 steamer with 2,000 barrels from Boston is to 

 hand, making in all 8,000 barrels. 



Notwithstanding our favorable exper- 

 ience with this variety, we would not com- 

 mend it for general planting in Ontario. 

 We know it is adapted to our soil and 

 climate on the South shore of Lake 

 Ontario; indeed it originated on this 

 parallel, on the Hudson River bank, 

 but it might utterly fail in other locations. 



NEW MARKETS FOR OUR FRUITS. 



WITH one consent, the fruit 

 growers of Ontario have 

 come to the conclusion 

 that their business is no 

 longer profitable unless some new mar- 

 kets can be opened up for the disposal 

 of their products. With commendable 

 industry the N. D. F. G. Stock Com- 

 pany have been establishing agencies in 

 every town for the better distribution of 

 our fruits in our own province ; these 

 towns we have surfeited with all kinds 

 of fruit, and yet we have a surplus and 

 have to accept ruinous prices or else 

 allow it to rot in our orchards. 



It is evident that we must go farther 

 and reach some portions of the world 

 where the population is great enough to 

 take our surplus without too much 

 affecting the prices. 



Such a country is our own Great 

 Britain, whose vast metropolis, the city 

 of London, alone, contains more inhabi- 

 tants than the whole of Canada, and 



numerous other cities containing each 

 hundreds of thousands of inhabitants. 

 This httle sea-girt isle has the accumu- 

 lated wealth of centuries, an over-flowing 

 population, and land too limited in 

 extent to furnish the food necessary for 

 their subsistence, much less the luxu- 

 ries. Though the temperature is usually 

 higher than ours, the continued fogs 

 from the gulf stream so obscure the sun 

 that many of the finest fruits cannot be 

 ripened out of doors. Grapes for ex- 

 ample are grown under glass, and the 

 finest varieties are very expensive, cost- 

 ing from 25c. to 50c. and even more per 

 pound. 



Peaches can only be grown against 

 walls exposed toward the sun ; they are 

 pruned and trained flat against a stone 

 wall or side of a house, to catch every 

 sunbeam, and thus ripen this delicious 

 fruit. Under such circumstances is it 

 any wonder if peaches bring almost 

 fabulous prices in England, and if there- 



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