SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1.00 per year, entitling the subscriber to membership of the Fmit 

 Growers' Association of Ontario and all its privileges, including a copy of its valuable Annual 

 Report, and a share in its annual distribution of plants and trees. 



REMITrANCES by Registered Letter are at our risk. Receipts will be acknowledged upcn 

 the address label. 



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Sample of a Seedling Gooseberry comes to hand from Mr. J. P. Crouch, 

 Davisville, which grew on a bush three years old. The berry is dark green, 

 oblong and slightly obovate ; size nearly equal to Whitesmith. 



The p. Barry Pear must be a good keeper. Garden and Forest states 

 that this variety from cold storage was being offered for sale on the ist of July 

 in New York City, along with the first harvest apples of this season from Cali- 

 fornia. 



Cider. — In reply to an inquiry published in this Journal last February, on 

 page 72, a subscriber writes : I beg to say that Messrs. A, H. Rurdan, Co., of 

 Annapolis, N.S., are engaged in the manufacture of that article, under the style 

 of '• The Valley Cider Works." 



How TO Sell Our Apple Crop to advantage will be a problem facing 

 Canadian fruit growers this fall. Never was there known such a yield, and so 

 few calls. Fortunately Europe is open for a large quantity, but even those 

 markets will be too small this season. We have proved that Australia is an 

 excellent market for Canadian apples, our Cranberry Pippins bringing nearly 

 four dollars a bushel at Sidney. The only blockade is the want of a cool storage 

 for crossing the tropics. What greater public benefit could our new Dominion 

 Government bestow upon Canada, than to subsidize the C P. R. steamers on 

 condition of providing cold storage accommodation for Canadian apples to New 

 Zealand and Australia. What a source of wealth would thus be gained to the 

 Canadian apple growers ! 



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