OUR FRUIT IMPORTS. 191 



I hope the preceding will be useful to your readers. I have excluded dried fruits, except 

 raisins and nuts, because we do not produce them, with only an exception as to apples, 

 pears, peaches and apricots, and these are not given, except apples, which are not of any 

 large amount. Nuts are included because we are able to grow them, and ought, to while 

 we might try raisins. 



All our green fruit is imported from the United States, except grapes, oranges and 

 apples. 



Curiously enough we have brought apples from Australia. Thus in 1895 the importa- 

 tion was $1,277 ; 1896, $4,509 ; 1897, $976 ; 1898, So ; 1899, So. 



This year we have had the first direct importation of oranges from Jamaica into Ot- 

 tawa. 



It is peculiar that we are prepared to pay for taking oranges and lemons to Engl 'and 

 and then freight them back. 



We impbrt of this fruit from — 



As to the grapes which are imported from England and other countries other than the 

 United States are Malagas, and are not grown here. Of those from the United 

 States it is impossible to tell what part is competitor against our own grapes. How- 

 ever, the record is this way ; 



G. B. U.S. G. B. U. S. 



1890 $31,331^ $47,503 1895 29,711 26,068 



1891 32,847 46,413 1896 35.577 29,007 



1892 29,175 38,610 1897 20,393 26,671 



1893 31.979 38,146 1898 21,130 34.097 



1894 36,181 40,830 1999 22,,22(i 27,501 



It would appear that notwithstanding the general growth of trade, the importation of 

 grapes is not growing, and perhaps means we are supplying our own market more fully 

 than " has been." 



G. H. Fawcett. 



Ottawa. 



Ix Ger.manv certain restrictions have been terial. Experiments were also instituted to 

 put upon the importation of American fruit determine how long the scale insects would 

 owing to the San Jose Scale scare. Prof. live when removed from the fruit and care- 

 ts. Reh, of Hamburg, has conducted a num- fully transported to other fruit or to other 

 ber of experiments for the purpose of determ- situations. The experiments indicate that 

 ining the danger from the packing of import- death usually results within a short period 

 ed fruit, with the general result that living after such removal, 

 scales were very seldom found in such ma- 



