June, 191 1 



THE CANADIAN HOETIC U LTU RIST 



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Fruit Shipments to Glasgow 



Reporting to the Dominion Department 

 ot Agriculture, Jas. A. Fiudlay, cargo in- 

 spector at Glasgovv, lias the following to 

 say regarding shipments of Canadian fruit 

 to that i)ort for the year ending March 

 31st last : 



"The Canadian apple trade with Glas- 

 gow this season has been of an unsatisfac- 

 tory nature, the importations being the 

 smallest on record for a considerable num- 

 ber of years; the qualty also was disap- 

 pointing. At moment of writing barely 

 81,000 barrels and 15,330 cases have arriv- 

 ed, as compared with last year's totals of 

 312.165 barrels and 31,843 boxes from On- 

 tario and 38,601 barrels and 189 boxes from 

 Nova Scotia. There were no direct ship- 

 ments this season from Nova Scotia, though 

 a few hundreds arrived in Glasgow via 

 London by rail and coasting steamer. 



"This shortage from Canada was partly 

 met by increased arrivals from other 

 sources, but not in sufficient quantities to 

 supply the demand, consequently prices 

 ruled higher on the average for all var- 

 ieties than during the 1909 season. The 

 shortage mentioned resulted in larger im- 

 portations of barrel stock from various dis- 

 tricts of the United States, viz., Virginia, 

 Maine, and the Western States. The 

 Virginia fruit was of excellent quality; 

 Maine Baldwins very fair, but "Western 

 State apples poor in size and quality. Lar- 

 ger quantities of box fruit from Califor- 

 nia, Oregon, Washington, etc., arrived; 

 the Oregon Newton and Spitz have been of 

 excellent quality and pack and received 

 universal praise. 



CONDITION 



"The condition of Canadians on arrival 

 throughout the season was generally very 

 fair ; a few parcels among the early sum- 



mer fruit arrived over-ripe and towards 

 the end a small percentage indicated frost 

 effects. With these exceptions arrivals 

 were in sound order as a rule. The quality, 

 as stated, was unsatisfactory; the high 

 prices conduced to shipment of somewliat 

 inferior grade and generally the pack was 

 irregular, very few choice parcels of fruit 

 arriving. 



"Good winter stock was very scarce; 

 Baldwins generally lacked color. Spys 

 throughout lacked color and keeping qual- 

 ity, and were also scarce. The feature of 

 the Ontario shipments was the pack of the 

 Norfolk fruit growers, several of their 

 shipments being of choice grade and qual- 

 ity. The Newcastle fruit growers also 

 placetl one or two good parcels on this mar- 

 ket; these with a limited few smaller ship- 

 pers forwarded reliable fruit. 



BOXES 



''The box apple trade in Glasgow is one 

 of increasing dimensions, and this year's 

 trade indicates that Glasgow offers an out- 

 let for a large proportion of high class 

 boxed fruit at all periods of the recognized 

 apple sea.son ; boxes containing apples char- 

 acterized by uniformity of size and color, 

 with skins free from blemish and clean for 

 the variety, fairly bold in size — but not 

 exceedingly so nor irregular in shape so as 

 to be deemed coarse — -will return to shippers 

 a much enhanced price over the barrel 

 equivalent. 



"The barrel, I presume, will always re- . 

 tain its place as the popular commercial 

 package, but very large quantities of boxes 

 were shipped here from United States dis- 

 tricts this season, influenced no doubt by 

 the scarcity of Ontario and Nova Scotia 

 barrel supplies. Buyers are becoming in- 

 creasingly discriminating regarding value 



PAEONIES 



June is the month of Paeony bloom; Sep- 

 tember is the month for planting Paeonies. 

 We do not sell cut flowers at retail, but any 

 reader of The Canadian Horticulturist who 

 purposes buying Paconiea for planting next 

 Setpember may have specimen blooms, while 

 they last, of any of 40 varieties that we shall 

 offer in our Fall Planting List to be Issued 

 Ist of August next— not more than 2 blooms 

 of any variety, correctly named, to any 

 buyer and not less than 10 blooms in any 

 order at 25 cent« for 10 blooms, to cover 

 cost of packing and postage. Stems will be 

 about half the usual length. This offer is 

 good until 15th June, and not longer. 

 Postal note with order, please. 



JOHN CAVERS 



Douglas Gardens, Oakville, Ont. 



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(Member Toronto Board of Trade) 



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UNUSUAL PEACHES 



WE HAVE A BLOCK OF OVER 



125.000 PEDIGREED PEACHES 



FOR THE COMING SEASON'S TRADE 



Every one of these trees is propagated from a select bearing tree 

 loaded with ripe peaches when the buds were cut and they are 

 budded on transplanted seedlings. ^ Such ^ock must be true to 

 name and the best obtainable. We believe that this block of trees 

 is unique in the fact that not one bud was cut from the nursery 

 row. We cannot sell this stock at low prices. It costs too much 

 to produce, but consider the trees cheap at the reasonable prices 

 at which we offer them. ^ Every tree is guaranteed. Orders 

 should be sent in at once as over 25,000 are already reserved. 



AUBURN NURSERIES 



QUEENSTON, ONT. 



