Canabian |f orticdtek 



VOL. II.] JANUAEY, 1879. [No. 1. 



APPLES IN THE LIVEEPOOL MAP.KET. 



Wl^en a cargo of apples arrives in Liverpool, the consignee does not 

 hold them and look about for purchasers, but proceeds at once to put 

 them up at auction on the next market day, and sell them off to the 

 highest bidder. This being the understood custom of the trade, those 

 who wish to purchase apples attend the sales and bid on the particular 

 varieties and brands they wish to purchase. Some of our Canadian 

 fruit growers have already won for themselves an enviable reputation 

 in the home markets for the quality of their fruit and the honesty of 

 the entire package, so that their brands have become known, and when 

 they are put up the competition to secure them is animated, and in 

 consequence they bring the best prices. We know this to be true in 

 particular of the "beaver" brand, by which the apples of E. N. Ball, 

 one of our members, is designated in the Glasgow market; a fact 

 which emphasizes the advice given to fruit packers by L. Woolverton, 

 in the number for December of last year. 



We have just been favored with quotations from a Liverpool 

 circular, of November last, sent to us by our esteemed Vice-President, 

 W. Eoy, of Owen Sound, giving the quotations at which different 

 varieties of apples were sold at that time in the Liverpool market. 

 From this it seems that apples from Canada have a standing there 

 quite distinct from those sent from the L^nited States, our Canadian 

 apples sometimes taking the lead in price. It is very noticeable that 

 the Newtown Pippin apple takes a very high stand in the home 

 market, bringing as high as forty-four shillings and sixpence sterling, 

 or about eleven dollars per barrel. Unfortunately this apple will not 

 come to perfection in all soils. There is only here and there a soil 

 that suits it perfectly, and no one may hope to reap any profit from it 

 unless planted on a soil abounding in lime. There was, and perhaps 

 yet is, near Poughkeepsie, on tlie Hudson Iviver, an orchard of this 



