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variety that has attained a world-wide celebrity. The fruit is handled 

 with the greatest care, only perfect specimens are put up for the English 

 market, each apple is most carefully wrapped in tissue paper, and 

 these packed in the very neatest of barrels got up in attractive style. 

 It is said that these samples have brought as high as twenty dollars 

 per barrel. If any of our readers have the soil that suits this variety^ 

 one that is warm, well drained, and abounding in lime, and will take 

 the requisite pains in handling the fruit after it is ready for gathering,, 

 they will find it a profitable variety. In the writer's experience with 

 it on a moist, cool soil, naturally deficient in lime, the fruit is often 

 very poor in quality, and covered with black spots. 



The Lady Apple sold for thirty to foi?ty shillings per barrel, say 

 from seven to ten dollars. This is strictly a fancy apple. It is in 

 demand about the holidays for table decoration as much as for the 

 dessert. The apples are very small, but most beautifully colored, with- 

 a bright red cheek on a straw-colored ground. We have known them 

 bring as much and more in the New York market ; but every speci- 

 men must be perfect, without a spot or blemish of any kind. It is 

 very probable that this kind also is more certain to produce perfect 

 fruit in soils abounding in lime, for in other soils it is sometimes 

 badly spotted. 



Baldwins from the United States brought from six and three pence 

 to thirteen and nine pence, while those from Canada are quoted at 

 from twelve to thirteen shillings. If anything were needed to enforce 

 the lesson of care in the selection and handling of fruit for market we 

 certainly have it in the quotations before us. The difference between, 

 a dollar and a half and three dollars per barrel is well worth attention.- 

 The cost of the barrel, of the packing, shipping, and insuring, is as 

 great in the one case as the other, but the chances of a profit are very 

 decidedly in favor of the man who gets three dollars instead of a dollar 

 and a half per barrel. 



American Ehode Island Greenings brought from seven and six 

 pence to eleven and six pence ; those from Canada, from nine and three 

 pence to eleven shillings. Esopus Spitzenbergs, from eight to thirteen 

 shillings; Canadian samples, twelve and six pence. Talman Sweet, 

 from Canada, sold for ten and nine pence; from United States, for 

 tM^elve shillings. Eambo, from Canada, brought eleven and three 

 pence; Yellow Bellfleurs, eleven shillings; Pomme Grise, twenty 



