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The Canadian Horticuli URi^r. 



The Experimental Shipment of tender fruit to England was a grand 

 failure, owing to the collapse of the cold storage. The provisions on ship board 

 must have been wretched, for a cable has come to hand announcing that every 

 thing was spoiled except the few cases of apples, which, of course, would have 

 carried without cold storage. Surely something is wrong when California fruit 

 growers can ship their peaches safely across the continent, 3,000 miles, and then 

 across the Atlantic, and land them in London in good condition, and we 

 almost at the coast, cannot do it ! It is to be hoped that the Dominion Gov- 

 ernment, which provided the cold storage, will not allow the shippers to be at 

 a loss, after offering cold storage and failing to provide it. 



A Visitor from Russia. — Our readers must be quite familiar with the 

 name of Mr. Jaroslav Niemetz, of Rovno, Podolia, Russia, whose correspond- 

 ence so often appears in this Journal. Mr. Niemetz is one of the most promi- 

 nent pomologists of Russia, and direc- 

 tor of a very large fruit garden, for 

 experimental work. Of apples alone 

 he has under trial some twelve hun- 

 dred varieties, and of other fruits in 

 proportion. He has recently made 

 numerous exchanges of seeds and 

 scions from Russia and Silesia of novel- 

 ties with us, in return for American 

 and Canadian varieties of fruits. The 

 Czar of Russia has so recognized the 

 value of his work that he has sent out 

 Mr. Niemetz to make a tour of Canada 

 and the United States in the interests 

 of Russian pomology. He visited us 

 at Grimsby, just before the Industrial 

 Fair, and was exceedingly pleased with 

 the orchards in this section. From 

 Grimsby he went to the Central Ex- 

 perimental Farm in Ottawa, and then 

 spent three days at the Industrial in 

 Toronto, taking copious notes for his 

 report. 



Fig. 828. — Mr. Jaroslav Niemetz 



Canadian Markets. — Messrs. Vipond & Co., one of the leading commis- 

 sion firms of Montreal, sends a circular under date of the 13th September, in 

 which they express lack of confidence in any good results from the attempt to 

 place our tender fruits in the English market by cold storage. They say further : 



