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VOL. II.] DECEMBER, 1879. [No. 12, 



ONTARIO APPLES IN THE MAPJTIME PROVINCES. 



We liave heard much of the fine apples of Nova Scotia, and that 

 in some seasons their surplus fruit had found a ready sale in the 

 markets of Great Britain at prices which were quite remunerative to 

 the shipper. Such being the case, it would seem like sending coals to 

 Newcastle for Ontario fruit growers to think of finding a market for 

 their apples in any of the Maritime Provinces, so long as Nova Scotia 

 had apples to spare which brought remunerative prices in England ; 

 much less would it be thought practicable to find a market for them 

 in Nova Scotia herself. But our President has recently received a 

 letter from Mr. Charles E. Brown, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in which 

 he says : " Since my first experimental order of ten barrels in 1875, 

 I have increased my orders to one hundred barrels last year and this, 

 as acquaintance with their excellence among my friends enables me 

 to dispose of them at cost and charges. In a year or two we shall 

 have all rail connection, and it will then be practicable to order car- 

 loads, at less cost for transit than over the present route. Tliere will 

 ultimately be a good market here for Ontario fruit if we can establish 

 relations with reliable growers. Honesty is a very essential point in 

 the fruit as in all other business. In some thirty years experience I 

 liave never found a shipper to ever approach Gage J. Miller in average 

 merit of the contents of a barrel of apples. Canada may be peopled 

 by such men, but they don't grow elsewhere." 



We called attention to Mr. Brown's orders for Ontario apples in 

 the January number, and endeavored to shew our readers that our 

 sister provinces would become a market for our surplus apples of prime 

 quality, put up with sound judgment and scrupulous integrity. The 

 quotation above given from Mr. Brown's letter sets before us iu the 

 clearest light the great importance of shipping only perfect fruit, not 

 allowing a single defective apple to get into the barrel. It is not 



