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Advices from Hamburg report A i Baldwins bringing $3.00 per barrel in 

 that market. Vienna and Paris also are promising markets for Canadian apples. 

 Mr. Edgar Skelly, of the well known firm of Griffin & Skelly, California, has just 

 returned from a European tour, and states he has great confidence that Austria 

 will yet be one of the best markets for Canadian apples. Perhaps we shall yet 

 command the best apple markets of the world, if we work on right lines, and 

 cease exporting second class apples. 



Farmers' Institute Speakers. — Arrangements have been made by 

 Superintendent Hodson, for over 450 meetings of Farmers' Institutes, with over 

 50 speakers. Among the latter we notice the following names : — H. L. Hutt, 

 J. H. Panton, of Guelph, D. W. Beadle, Toronto ; Alex. McNeil, Windsor ; Alf. 

 Brown, Picton ; A. W. Peart, Burlington ; James Sheppard, Queenston ; E. 

 Morden, Niagara Falls, South ; M. Burrell, St. Catharines ; W. W. Hillborn, 

 Leamington ; G. C Caston, Craighurst, etc. 



Mr. James Goldie speaking, in a letter, of certain incidents in the life of 

 his father, the late John Goldie, says in Meehan's Monthly, " My father visited 

 this country (Guelph, Ontario, Canada), in 181 7, returning to Scotland, I think, 

 in 1818. He came back again in 1819 and remained, I believe, till 1821. In 

 1824 he made a collection of plants, trees and shrubs for the Botanical Gardens 

 that were then being constructed in St. Petersburg, Russia, and went there with 

 them. He was connected with the gardens for some time. He travelled in 

 that country collecting novelties, and introduced many fine things. He after- 

 wards re-visited Russia and Siberia to investigate the rich botanical wealth there. 

 He came to Canada in 1844 with his family, and resided at Ayr till his death. 

 Nearly all of his journals and notes of travel in the various countries he visited 

 "were lost by the burning of his house." 



Canadian Fruit for Her Gracious Majesty. — As intimated in our 

 October number, a collection of some of our finest varieties of apples, pears 

 and grapes have been collected by Messrs. Copp & Heard of Hamilton, and 

 forwarded to the Queen, in order to show what beautiful fruit is grown in this 

 important section of her dominions. 



The fruit growers in the Hamilton fruit district responded heartily, and 

 made up a collection of twenty-nine cases, artistically packed in fifty pound 

 cases. These were on exhibition for a few days at Hamilton, before being 

 forwarded. 



~ Mr. Anthony Copp, of Hamilton, writes : — I have written Sir Donald 

 Smith, that we expect him to present the fruit to Her Majesty, and that he is 

 to have it inspected before presentation. I have also sent him a list of growers 

 and varieties of fruit, with description. The fruit sailed on the 7th November 



