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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



and more each ytar. This means a great market 

 some day and the dis.iict ih^t gets ia position lo 

 supply this want will protit m a marked degree. 



In line with the above, and in confirmation 

 of the position taken by the Star, we have 

 just now received an urgent inquiry from 

 England for fruit pulp, from Messrs. Ro- 

 thon & Co., 54 Great Tower street, London, 

 E. C, as follows: 



Sir,— We shall be glad to know if you can 

 offer us any Fruit Pulp of any description. We 

 are in a position to handle any quantity, large 

 or small, of all kinds, including Apple Pulp, and 

 if you can make us tny shipments we can secure 

 lor you a very good price indeed. If you can con- 

 veniently do this, we shall abk you to make us a 

 small trial shipment as early as pofcsible, and if 

 you will kindly cable us on receipt hereof what 

 you are in a pos.tion to ship, we shall be vt-ry 

 ple-ised to reply by cable, giving you any informa- 

 tion that you may require. 



In view of the risk attending the export 

 of plums and peaches and pears in cold stor- 

 age, and the expense involved, it is evident 

 that a great saving would be made by first 

 reducing these fruits to pulp, or jam, and ex- 

 porting the manufactured product. Not 

 only would there be a great deal less bulk to 

 transport, but the charges would also be re- 

 duced, because such goods would carry m 

 ordinary storage. Herein appears to be a 

 good field for co-operative factories among 

 fruit growers, so that the advantages would 

 be retained by them and not given over to a 

 company. 



THE BRITISH JAM TRADE. 



THE following article from the Scottish 

 Trader will give an idea of 

 the extent of the British jam indus- 

 try, and of the prices paid for fruits 

 used in jam making: "Not for five 

 and twenty years has jam been so dear 

 as it will be for the next twelve months. 

 The soft fruit season has closed, and rasp- 

 berries made as high as £45 and even £50 a 

 ton. The plum season is in full swing, but 

 values range from £30 to £40 a ton, so that 

 jam cannot possibly be cheap. The above 



ruotations refer quotations refer to jam fruit 

 only. Of course, dessert raspberries made 

 considerably higher prices. We saw quan- 

 tities sold at 9d. and is. a pound first hand, 

 these prices being equal to £84 and iii2 ? 

 ton respectively. As to the plums, the Vic- 

 toria, Pond's Seedling and Prince of Wales 

 plums are making from 7s. to los. a half 

 bushel. The former is largely used by jam 

 makers, being, in fact, one of their stock 

 plums. At from £30 to £35 there are buy- 

 ers open to purchase hundreds of tons of 

 plums. These fruits, especially the im- 

 ported samples, are more plentiful than rasp- 

 berries, currants, or strawberries were. The 

 jam manufacturer is depending upon the 

 plum to replenish his stocks, though the lat- 

 ter will at the end of the stone fruit season 

 be far under the average of previous years. 

 The bulk of the plums on sale at the present 

 time come from Holland, Germany and 

 France. Though it is stated in the official 

 statistics that American plums are on the 

 market here, they are never used for jam, 

 being far too expensive. Continental plums 

 are plentiful. About 100,000 packages of 

 these fruits have been unshipped in English 

 ports during the past six days. Out of this 

 quantity over 80,000 packages full had been 

 grown in Germany. This season German 

 shippers are monopolizing the plum trade cf 

 the British markets. Quite 75 per cent, of 

 the plum jam that will be sold as new sea- 

 son's jam this year will have been made 

 from German plums. Of course, these in- 

 creased foreign fruit shipments are due to 

 the failure of the British fruit crop. If Ger- 

 man plums were not used in English jam we 

 should get little of that popular preserve th's 

 season. As it is, despite the seemingly 

 large arrivals referred to, English jam will 

 be unusually dear. It is unfortunate that 

 jam makers have not only had to face a 

 great shortage of fruit and high prices, but 

 that sugar has also increased in value." 



