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The Baldwin holds a remarkably high place in the British market, not- 

 withstanding that its quality is only ordinary. No doubt its fine color, and its 

 excellent shipping quality, showing so little the effects of rough usage, combine 

 to give it the precedency which it commands. In the month of December it 

 was only excelled in price by the King, an apple of far superior quality, but not 

 its equal in keeping qualities. On the 21st of December last Kings were sold 

 in Liverpool at 18/ to 23 , and Baldwins at 16/6 to 22/6 per barrel. 



Boxes vs. Barrels for Apples. — The Secretary of the Ontario Fruit 

 Growers' Association has been experimenting with an apple box for fancy apples, 

 shipping 100 of them to Liverpool, 100 to Glasgow, and 200 to Edinburgh. 

 The Liverpool dealers oppose it as a novelty, and declare in favor of the barrel. 

 They say no package is equal to the barrel for apples, and that the multiplying 

 of the number of the packages in this way would mean a disadvantage to the 

 shipper. Glasgow and Edinburgh, however, seem to think that for a special 

 fancy grade of apple, the apple box is a good package, and would pay for the 

 additional cost incurred. 



Waterloo Horticultural Society. — Mr. James Lockie, the President 

 of the Waterloo Horticultural Society, is evidently determined to make their 

 Society a grand success. He writes : " We are getting out a circular regarding 

 the premiums which we are offering for the next year. When we get our list 

 completed, we will ask several florists and nurserymen for tenders guaranteeing 

 healthy good stock. We will get them in bulk and to distribute them will be a 

 good deal of trouble for some of us, but we are bound to have our Horticultural 

 Society the best of its kind. ' No prizes ' is the key-note of our success. I will 

 send you a report of our annual meeting which is to be held on the 8th of 

 January." 



Care of Fruit Trees is the subject of two bulletins from Cornell, Nos. 

 102 and 103. The first by Professor Bailey, particularizes, from general observa- 

 tion, that lack of tillage and fertilizers must be the chief reasons why our apple 

 orchards are barren ; he also suggests that propagating with cions cut from 

 unproductive trees, may increase the trouble. 



Prof Roberts writes the latter bulletin, aiid generalizes the same con- 

 clusions from careful and particular analysis. By careful weighing and 

 analyzing of wood, fruit and leaves, he finds " that the value of the nitrogen, 

 phosphoric acid and potash which would be removed from one acre of bearing 

 orchard in twenty years, would be about $400, while the value of these fertilizers 

 removed by grain crops in the same length of time, would not amount to over 

 one-third that sum. It is evidently, therefore, more important to annually fer- 

 ilize a bearing apple orchard than a grain crop, and no one would think of 

 neglecting the latter. 



