my best to arrange for such accommodation at 

 this side. Following- up your shipment to Bel- 

 fast, might I ask if you would be disposed to 

 try the Dublin market with some trial consign- 

 ments ? If you could see your way to do this I 

 will undertake to do my utmost to get you a 

 good return, and convince you that Dublin of- 

 fers a good and profitable market. 



" The first consignment of the season of Am- 

 erican apples arrived this week in Dublin. Thev 

 were sold as Baldwins and realized 21 shillings a 

 barrel; and Liverpool price being 14 to 15 shil- 

 lings. I examined several of the barrels, and 

 although sold as Baldwins, found they were 

 made up of different varieties, all of a very poor 

 quality and badly bruised. The fact of these 

 barrels being made up of different varieties still 

 further bears out the statements which I have 

 repeatedly made to Canadian growers, viz., that 

 a proportion of good quality Canadian apples 

 on arrival in England is mixed with a lot of in- 

 ferior American stuff and the whole parcel sent 

 over here and sold as first grade. This form 

 of tampering would be impossible were growers 

 to send consignments to this market, and Cana- 

 dian fruit would be thought more of than at 

 present." 



" There is nothing to prevent an English or 

 continental firm receiving consignments from 

 Canada having a branch house in Ireland, under 

 an assumed name, and working this market to 

 their own advantage. I merely mention the 

 matter to show one of the disadvantages which 

 growers have to contend with under the pres- 

 ent system. If for no other reason, I think 

 this ought to be sufficient to induce growers to 

 pack their own fruit and ship it to an agent here 

 to sell for them. I am anxious to get ship- 

 ments from growers for this market, and as it 

 is likely that some readers of my letter in The 

 Horticulturist may ask if you can give them 

 any information concerning me I might say I 

 am prepared to furnish any references that may 

 be desired. I am also prepared to give them 

 any guarantee they may wish that their inter- 

 ests will be mine, and the more I get for them 

 the better it will be for myself." 



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