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a plethora of bush and ground fruit, all of which will have disappeared with the arrival of 

 wintry weather. Apples from English orchards are selling now at from id. to Id. per lb., 

 but this is because they are poor and wasty, and largely unfit to eat, or tasteless : but 

 even now, as high as -ki. and 6d a pound is charged in the shops retail, and correspondingly 

 high prices wholesale. There is not an abundance of good fruit, and there is hope for ship- 

 ments of the best from Canada, But I do not expect to see anything but low rates for 

 inferior fruit. The experiment of sending tomatoes from Canada I will deal with next 

 week. It is a risky business, with our immense available supplies. 



Messrs. Simons, Jacobs & Co., of Glasgow, cable under date October 22nd, 1895 : — 

 Market for good, sourui truit steady. Prices in some instances a shade better than they 

 have been. The market opened firm and closed the same ; demand good. The following 

 quotations are for No. 1 sound Baldwins and Greenings, 16/ to 19/, Kings, 21/ to 24/ ; 

 poor and wasty fruit weak and inactive. 



Garden and Forest of New York, under date October 23rd, says -; — Among pears now 

 in season are spicy Seckels from Rochester, New York, at fifteen cents a quart. Showy 

 Cornice, the best-flavored of the larger sorts now offered, the greenish-yellow Easter Bcurre, 

 and the medium-sized russet Winter Nelis, all range from seventy-five cents to $1 a dozen 

 for the best. Quinces are becoming scarce; and the best in the retail stores §6 a barrel. 

 Among the few peaches still arriving are good specimens from western Maryland and Penn- 

 sylvania, and some choice White Heaths from the Hudson River district. These sell in 

 tile fancy-fruit stores at fifty cents a dozen. Selected King apples bring fo a barrel at 

 retail, and Albemarle Pippins $6. Apples generally are advancing in price, as the Euro- 

 pean crop is not so large as anticipated, and the high quality of the American crop has 

 been lowered by recent unfavorable weather. The bast grades of Alexander and Snow cost, 

 in wholesale lots, $3 to $3 75 a barrel, and Jonathan and Alexander $3 and upward. Small 

 Lady apples, not yet in their brightest colors, cost forty cents a quart. The showiest 

 objects now seen among the best collections of fruits are the orange-red Japanese persim- 

 mons ; they cost sixty cents a dozen. Jamaica oranges are being hurried on the market at 

 the beginning of the season for high prices, many of them but half-grown, green and sour. 

 As a consequence, prices are lower and likely to fall below the paying point. There is a 

 steady demand for Alligator pears, and one of the fancy-fruit stores, on the arrival of a 

 shipment of this fruit, sends notice to two hundred regular customers. The fruit at this 

 time is coming from Nassau, and sells quickly from twenty-five to thirty-five cents a piece, 

 and the supply is never as great as the demand. A remarkable sale of figs occurred here 

 on last Wednesday, when $40,000 worth of this fruit was sold at wholesale auction in one 

 hour. Prices ranged from 6i to 15J cents a pound, and on the succeeding day the extremely 

 high price of I9| cents a pouud was reached. Thirty-four car-loads of California fruits 

 were sold here last week, mostly Tokay grapes. The last German prunes are now shown 

 and cost seventy-five cents for a package containing three dozen fruits. Extra large sized 

 chestnuts, from New Jersey, have sold as high as §12 a bushel, and bring forty cents a 

 quart at retail. 



Messrs. Woodall & Co., of Liverpool, writes : — Of this week's arrivals about 3,000 

 were not landed in time to be disposed of, but the quantity was sufficient to test the 

 market, and it has demonstrated beyond doubt that however large the English and Con- 

 tinental crops may be they do not prejudice the sale of good varietiea of American and 

 Canadian fruits. The quality and condition of arrivals from both places has been all that 

 could l)e desired, and although no material advance can be quoted, there was an active 

 demand at last week's extreme rates, and net results will be more satisfactory than any 

 this season, there being an absence of slack and wasty barrels. Greenings especially hare 

 shown excellent quality, and the best realized an advance of fully 2/ per barrel. Kings, 

 on the contrary, are not generally up to the mark, being doubtful in condition, and with- 

 out their usual brilliancy, there were some bright exceptions, and up to 24/6 was touched 

 for Canadians. A further arrival of Albermarle Pippins was scarcely equal to that of last 

 week, but realized a ready sale at 27/ to 28/, and a few medium Newtown Pippins sold at 

 22/ per barrel. 



Messrs. Simons, Jacobs k Co., quote to-day (Oct. 29th) Glasgow market as follows : — 

 Market opened firm, and continued so throughout the day. Demand good. The following 

 prices are for No. 1 sound fruit, Baldwins, 16/ to 19/; Greenings, 13/ to If/; G. and R. 

 Russets, 12/ to 15/ ; Spies, Seeks, C. Reds and Spits. 14/ to 17/ ; Kings, 21/ to 24/ ; 

 Cranberry and Ribstons Pippins, 7/ to 10/, 20 oz. 15/ to 18/ ; Snows, 18/ to 21/. 



