THE NEW YORK MARKET. 



To the Editor 0/ the Horticulturist : 



Sir. — This vast, consuming market 

 is being supplied with celery from Cali- 

 fornia. It arrives here in best condi- 

 tion. The heads are extraordinarily 

 large and very white. There is very 

 little waste. It retails for 1 5 cents per 

 head, and taking size, quality and 

 freedom from waste into consideration, it 

 is not very dear. We thought it strange 

 a few years ago to receive celery from the 

 western part of Michigan, and to-day we 

 receive it in better condition from Cali- 

 fornia. Celery is a vegetable that can 

 be shipped in car loads to this market 

 with safety, so that the cost for trans- 

 portation can be reduced to a very small 

 sum per head. Hundreds of acres of it 

 are raised near Kalamazoo, Michigan, 

 and sent east to the market. 



Why can it not be raised most suc- 

 cessfully upon the strong fertile lands of 

 Ontario ? 



I am confident that there is more 

 money in shipping tomatoes to this 

 market from Canada than to Great 

 Britain. 



If the fruit growers of Ontario will 

 establish an agency in New York and 

 advertise prime Canadian fruits and 

 vegetables liberally, a permanent and re- 

 liable market can be opened for all 

 first-class goods you can send us. Cali- 

 fornia green goods are sold at auction 

 upon arrival for spot cash upon the 

 wharf where they are unloaded, so that 

 there is no expensive warehouse re- 



quired. They nearly all come by the 

 Erie Railway. For prime products the 

 competition among dealers is very 

 sharp. They are scheduled to arrive 

 upon certain days in the week after 

 midnight, and are unloaded, opened and 

 sold at auction early in the morning. 

 Capital and brains are pushing California 

 to the front as a fruit and vegetable 

 producing country. There is far more 

 good land in Ontario than in California, 

 and it is nearly 3,000 miles nearer the 

 great consuming markets of this nation of 

 feasters. Californians have learned not 

 to send second class goods to this mar- 

 ket. Such goods will not return charges, 

 when prime goods will pay handsomely. 

 The combination that is winning in 

 California can do so in Ontario. 



Francis Wayland Glen. 

 New York, March 21st, 1898. 



"The following clipping is from the 

 New York Sun : 



Pomona, Feb. 28th. — The most conserva- 

 tive estimates of the capital now invested in 

 orange and lemon growing in California put 

 the amount at $43,000,000. In Los Angelos 

 county alone some $12,000,000 is invested in 

 the citrus fruit industry. It is also estimated 

 that some $60,000,000 to $80,000,000 is in- 

 vested in California in the growing of prunes, 

 peaches, olives, apricots and small fruits. A 

 frost in midwinter, when the orange and 

 lemon trees are in fruition, and again March 

 or April, when the deciduous orchards are 

 blossoming, may, therefore, in a few hours 

 ruin the income from a capital of from $100,- 

 000,000 to $120,000,000. Since irrigation has 

 been made a science and a periodical rainfall 

 is not so all important, where insect pests are 

 annihilated by gases and chemical decoctions, 

 and where there is little possibility of damage 

 from tempests, frost is now practically the 

 only menace to fruit growers. 



Maiden-hair Ferns in the House. 

 —There are some people who will not 

 be convinced that it is possible to grow 

 maiden hair ferns in an ordinary dwell- 

 ing. The other day I saw, in a furnace- 

 heated, gas-lighted house, as pretty a 

 specimen of maiden-hair fern as any one 

 could wish to see. " I grew it just like 



my other plants," the owner said, " with 

 this exception." Then she lifted the pot 

 from its pretty jardiniere, and I saw that 

 the bottom of the jardiniere contained 

 four or five inches of water, and that the 

 pot rested on a stone placed in the cen- 

 tre that held the bottom of the pot up 

 just above the water. — Vick's Magazine. 



