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ties of fall and winter apples and pears, the 

 following varieties of peaches : Elberta, 

 Late Crawford, Wonderful, Lord Palmer- 

 ston and Pride of Canada ; and a set of 

 bound volumes of the Canadian Horticul- 

 turist and Reports of the Ontario Fruit 

 Growers' Association. 



Messrs. Simons, Shuttleworth & Co., 

 Liverpool, cable : No fresh Canadians up 

 in time for sale to-day. The market opened 

 steady and continued so throughout the 

 day. Good apples meeting with a strong 

 demand. 



Shipments last week from all parts will 

 aggregate 48,000 bbls. to Liverpool, 20,000 

 bbls. to Glasgow, 22,000 bbls. to London 

 (mostly from Nova Scotia), 300 bbls. to 

 Hamburg, a total of 90,300 bbls., against 

 89, 1 73 bbls. corresponding week last year. 



Year 1900 Apples at Paris. — At the 

 request of the Hon. Sidney Fisher we under- 

 took to forward two collections of Ontario 

 apples to Paris. The first lot, consisting of 

 thirty cases of summer and fall apples, with 

 a few pears, went forward about September 

 T5th, in cold storage as far as Manchester. 

 In this collection were such varieties as 

 Blenheim Orange, Alexander, Snow, Swazie, 

 Cranberry, King, Wealthy, Maiden's Blush, 

 St. Lawrence, Red Russet, Louise, . etc. 

 Our readers will be pleased to read the 

 following cablegram, dated Paris, October 

 15th, from Commissioner Dupuis, one of 

 Canada's representatives at the Exposition : 



Fresh fruit in splendid condition. Four addi- 

 tional gold medals awarded Canada on Thursday. 

 Prof. Drummond, from London, warns the 

 department at Washington to wake up, as Canada 

 leads in quality and quantity of products. 



(Signed) Dupuis. 



of Alex. McPhie, three miles out of town. 

 Mr. J. Ryerson, who sends the apples, 

 writes : " These apples average about the 

 size of the samples, 3 inches in diameter, 

 are entirely free from scab, not inclined to 

 drop from the tree, bear a full crop alternate 

 years, and a half crop the other years. The 

 fruit keeps till about January. The tree is 

 a chance seedling." 



This is certainly a most attractive looking 

 apple, almost equal to the Gravenstein in 

 appearance, and of a season to continue in 

 use from the time that variety is over in 

 October, throughout November and Decem- 

 ber. In form it is oblate, with deep rus- 

 seted cavity and large deep basin. The 

 skin is straw colored background, almost 

 covered with stripes and splashes of bright 

 red. The flesh is white, fine grained, 

 moderately juicy, of an agreeable, aromatic 

 flavor. 



This apple appears worthy of further 

 notice bv our fruit committee. 



A Fine Seedling Apple. — On the 6th 

 October we received two fine seedling apples 

 from Orillia, which originated on the farm 



Preserving Fruit for Exhibition. — T. 

 Cranefield, in Wisconsin station report, 

 gives results of experiments in preserving 

 fruits for exhibition purposes, and retaining 

 color and form. Sulphur fumes, corrosive 

 sublimate, salicylic acid, and solutions of 

 formalin in water were tried and found to 

 be of little value. Mixtures of formalin 

 and alcohol were tried, however, as pre- 

 servatives for plums, with considerable 

 success. A formula containing 2 per cent, 

 of formalin, 20 per cent, of alcohol, and 78 

 per cent, of water was found to be best 

 suited to the purpose. 



" Plums put in the above mixture one 

 year ago are at present well preserved. The 

 fruit remains firm, and in the case of the 

 lighter colored varieties the color is well 

 preserved and the liquid remains clear. The 

 color was not so well preserved in the case 

 of the dark-purple varieties. The Japan 

 plums are especially well preserved both in 



