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The Apple Crop in Western New 

 York is reported to be about one-half a 

 full crop. 



The Official Report of the Annual 

 Fruit Growers' Meeting of Prince Ed- 

 ward Island for 1898 is at hand, and 

 proves clearly that the people there are 

 wide awake to their interests, and are 

 planting apple orchards quite freely, in 

 view of the excellent results obtained 

 from their first trial shipment. 



At the recent great International 

 Horticultural Exhibition at St. Peters- 

 burgh, the Wiboltts seed establishment 

 in Nakskov, Denmark, was awarded the 

 highest prize, viz., the largest silver 

 medal for Danish grown cauliflower and 

 cabbage seed. 



Harrison Watson, Imperial Institute, 

 our Dept. of Agriculture, give some en- 

 couragement to ship raspberry pulp this 

 season. The old country crop is very 

 short, owing to drouth, and now is the 

 most favorable time to forward some 

 cases for a thorough trial of this indus- 

 try. We hope our Committee will make 

 preparations for this, and give us a com- 

 plete and reliable report of the prospects 

 of the trade, because, if a success, it 

 would help the price of the fresh fruit 

 in our country. 



Raspberry Pulp. — A letter from 



The Wickson Plum. — On the 21st 

 of July we received a fine sample of this 

 plum, from Mr. W. E. Wellington who 

 has so much confidence in it that he has 

 planted it quite largely to grow the fruit 

 for profit. It is the largest of the Japan 

 plums, a cross between Kelsey and Bur- 

 bank, and is of such a fine bright red 

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