*THE CHRISTMAS FRUIT TRADE 



THE CANADIAN APPLE IN BRITAIN. 



SAMPSON MORGAN. 



DURING one week recently the im- 

 ports of Canadian apples into 

 British ports exceeded 70,000 

 packages, against 50,000 sent from the 

 United States during a similar period. Out 

 of these totals there were more barrels in 

 the Canadian shipments than in those from 

 the United States. These facts prove that, 

 as far as quantity is concerned, our great 

 apple producing colony maintains the pre- 

 mier position in the British apple markets, 

 especially at Christmas time. From the 

 direct and exclusive reports I receive from 

 the apple growing centres of the world, I 

 am in a position, authoritatively, to say that 

 Canada will send the largest supplies of the 

 highest quality apples that will be on sale ir 

 the public markets of the United Kingdom 

 during the festive season. 



In recent years the fruit export trade of 

 the colony has been developed in the most 

 remarkable manner. The increasing popu- 

 larity of the magnificent Canadian apple is 

 due, to a very great extent, to the admirable 

 manner in which the Department of Agri 

 culture at Ottawa, under the able supervis- 

 ion of Prof. J. W. Robertson, has worked 

 on both sides of the Atlantic. 



Then the fruit growers of Canada are tc 

 be congratulated upon the possession of ? 

 paper, I mean, of course, the Canadian 

 Horticulturist, which furnishes such sound 

 advice to growers, packers and shippers oi! 



the commercial aspect of fruit growing. It 

 gets into the hands of the producers on the 

 one side, and of the best distributors on thi:^ 

 side, and is doing a good work. 



For twenty years I have written in praise 

 of the Canadian apple. In my column ser- 

 ies on " Popular Fruits " in the London. 

 Echo, I dealt elaborately with this tooth- 

 some and sugary dainty. In such influen- 

 tial daily newspapers as the Times, Stand- 

 ard, Globe, Daily Mail, Westminster Ga- 

 zette, Birmingham Daily Vost, Sheffield 

 Daily Telegraph, Newcastle Daily Chronicle 

 and Glasgow Herald I have written again 

 and again on behalf of this fancy product of 

 the glowing Canadian summers. 



The petty trade magazines in England 

 carp at the eiTorts of the agricultural ofii-< 

 cials, who, through their splendid depot in 

 Parliament street, show the people here tht 

 secured despite the opposition of parties 

 who, without any actual experience of the 

 of the foreign producer and shipper. The 

 independent position maintained by the de- 

 the British fruit markets this Christmas 

 time, for which packers, shippers and all 

 true friends of the industry may feel justly 

 proud. 



*The article in November number of this 

 journal, from the Scottish Trader on The Brit- 

 ish Jam Trade, was written by this same au- 

 thor. — Ed. 



