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The samples sent by Mr. Glen are truly excellent, but differ from the 

 common Canadian Snow apples. They evidently belong to the Snow apple 

 family, and are probably Mcintosh Red. A colored photo of which was in 

 our Journal for November, 1893, and was highly commended except for its 

 fault of scabbing almost as badly as the Fameuse. No doubt there would 

 be money in growing it, for its quality is about equal to the Fameuse, and 

 it is larger and more showy. The Scarlet Pippin, figured on page 382, is 

 another apple of this class, which may possibly be entirely scabproof ; and, 

 if so, will also be a most profitable apple for any market. 



Beurre Bosc Pears in New York Market. 



Sir, — I stopped at the fruit stand of James X. Bagnall, at the comer of Wall and 

 William Street-*, just as he was opening a keg (| barrel) of the finest and largest Beurre 

 Rose I ever saw. He only paid $1.25 for the keg. Why? Because they were badly 

 packed, and when they reached this market were bruised, and the bruised spots were dis- 

 colored. The best of them he was selling for 5 cents each, or three for J2i cents. Just 

 beside them he had some very handsome Beurre D'Coniice which came from California, 

 They had been carefully packed iu soft papers, and the skin was not in the slightest 

 degree bruised or disfigured. He was selling them for 10 cents each or three for 25 cents. 

 He has Ijeen thirty-five years in the fruit business at that corner I made a misiake in a 

 previous letter in saying he had been there for twenty-three years onlj*. He sells the 

 choicest of fruits of all kinds to the wealthy bankers and brokers of the Street. He 

 seldom displays his fruit before 10 a m. in the morning, and closes his business soon after 

 4 p m. in the afternoon. 



The object of this letter is to emphasize the value of careful packing. Had the Beurre 

 Bosc have been carefully packed, they woald have readily sold for $3.50 or $4 for the ^ 

 barrel. 



Francis Waylaxd Glkn. 



Dated October 21st, 1896. 



Those Snow Apples. 



Sir, — Yours of the 10th inst., came duly to hand, contents are noted, and in reply Ijeg 

 to say : In my opinion you are mistaken about the apples I sent you being Mcintosh Red. 

 I comp.ired them with Fa-neuse from Montteal, \Vestern New York and Pennsylvania, and 

 I am confident that they were genuine Fameuse. Since I sent them to you, I found some 

 Fameuse at the opposite side of Wall Street just as handsome and as large selling for one 

 cent each ; they were from the •'Southwest. Skin very thick, flesh far from firn), flavor too 

 mild to be refreshing or appetizing. The person I bought those of which I sent to you, is 

 an old gardener and has sold fruit from the same stand for twenty-thiee years, and is as 

 good pomologist as I have met since I sold oat my interest in the Rochester Commercial 

 Nurseries. 



I have no interest, direct or indirect, in any nursery, or in any firm or corporation 

 selling trees. My only desire is to promote the growth of such fruits in Ontario as will 

 command a profitable sale in the continental market 



The South and Califori-ia can l)eat Ontario in pears, peaches, early plums and grapes, 

 but Ontaiio and Quebec can beat any part of the United States in apples and late plums. 

 My opinion is that the foreign demand will relieve this market of the surplus of handsome 

 fruit (apples) and then the market will be opened at good prices for fruit of prime quality, 

 such as Ontario and Quel>ec can give us. If you send your fruit to Europe now, you will 

 compete there with a surplus from this country and be forced to sell at comparatively low 

 prices. On the contrary if you place your prime apples in dry cold storage and then ofter 

 them for sale in Boston, New York and Philadelphia, Cleveland, Detroit and Cincinnati, 

 later in the season you will command better prices than you will if you ship them to 

 Europe. 



I refer to prime fruit only, put up io comparatively small packages or quarter barrels. 



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