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shillings ; and llibston Pippin, seventeen shillings. Russets, from the 

 Ignited States, brought from eleven and three pence to fifteen and nine 

 pence ; Maiden's Blush, from twelve and six pence to sixteen and six 

 pence ; Northern Spy, ten shillings ; King of Tompkins, ten and six 

 pence ; and Wagner, from seven shillings to twelve and nine pence. 



These are some of the leading varieties that are grown in quantity 

 for market. It is very interesting to note the estimation in whicli 

 they are held in Liverpool, taking the prices at which they were sold 

 as an exponent of their popularity. The outward appearance has 

 much to do with the sale of fruit everywhere, especially of kinds not 

 sufficiently known to have established a reputation for superior quality. 

 The exceedingly beautiful appearance of the Maiden's Blush has 

 doubtless much to do with the price obtained for it in Liverpool, for 

 certainly no one acquainted with the apples would ever give it the 

 preference for quality ove^r the Spy or King of Tompkins, and yet it 

 brought a higher price than either. On the other hand, the Pomme 

 Grise has established a reputation for quality as a dessert apple, and 

 though lacking in beauty of coloring, readily brings five dollars per 

 barrel. Besides this, in England the large apples are not considered 

 as suitable for dessert, but as finding their appropriate place in the 

 kitchen, hence the smaller apples of superior quality will bring a higher 

 price than large apples. 



We cannot close this article without directing the attention of our 

 fruit growers to the Nova Scotia markets. The consumers of apples 

 in that Province have been learning by trial and comparison that the 

 apples of Ontario are of superior excellence. The writer received a 

 letter from a life member of our Association, residing in Yarmouth, C. 

 E. Brown, Esq., bearing date the 22nd of October, in which he says ; 

 ^'Although our fruit crop is large this year, and prices unprecedentedly 

 low, markets all full of apples, and selling at fifty cents to a dollar and 

 fifty cents per barrel, I have ventured to order for myself and friends 

 one hundred barrels from Gage J. Miller," (of Virgil, near Niagara,) 

 " expecting to pay the average price of three dollars per barrel where 

 shipped ; expenses will be from one dollar to one dollar and twenty- 

 five cents per barrel. If Mr. Miller sends me a lot equal to those I have 

 had from him in 1876 and 1877, 1 shall have no difficulty in distribut- 

 ing my hundred barrels at cost and charges, even at the considerable 

 difference now ruling between Canadian and Nova Scotia or American 



