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IHE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



15 half boxes (20 lbs. of fruit), No. i 

 Bartlett, at $1.46. 



38 half boxes (20 lbs. of fruit), No. i 

 Bartlett, at 97 cents. 



3 half boxes (20 lbs. of fruit), No. i, Bart- 

 lett, at 30 cents. 



30 half boxes (20 lbs. of fruit), No. i 

 Bartlett, unsalable. 



152 half boxes (20 lbs. of fruit), A No. i 

 Bartlett, at $1.95. 



30 half boxes (20 lbs. of fruit), A No. 1, 

 at $1.71. 



5 half boxes (20 lbs. of fruit), A No. i, 

 at $1.34. 



1 half box (20 lbs. of fruit), A No. i, at 

 55 cents. 



26 half boxes (20 lbs. of fruit), unsale- 

 able. 



9 boxes (40 lbs. of fruit), A No. i, at 



$347- 



2 boxes (40 lbs. of fruit), A No. i, \A 



$2.01. 



15 half boxes Champion peaches, unsal- 

 able. 



Notwithstanding the loss of 71 cases, 

 which arrived overripe and had to be thrown 

 out, the net proceeds of the 567 packages 

 was $555.18, or about $1.00 each. 



The account sales of the other lots were 

 passed on to the other shippers. Suffice it 

 to say, they netted about $1.50 a package. 



This first experimental shipment of this 

 season simply proves the excellent possibili- 

 ties before us if we could depend upon the 

 ocean storage, and it does seem unfortunate 

 that with all the subsidies granted these lines 

 for cold storage, we fruit growers cannot 

 have our peaches, pears and plums carried 

 at a proper temperature, and a golden op- 

 portunity to get high prices for these tender 

 fruits, lost, which should if made practica- 

 ble, put new life and spirit into the hearts 

 of Ontario fruit growers. 



WARM INSTEAD OF COLD STORAGE. 



Our consignee, in writing, says : "A per- 



centage of these pears arrived here in a very 

 bad condition, and this, I understand, was 

 due directly to the temperature having been 

 kept too high while on board the steamer. 

 It appears that the refrigerator chambers 

 were packed full of fruit, and therefore the 

 cases in the centre of the chamber were 

 blocked in from the air, and it was impossi- 

 ble for the engineer to keep the temperature 

 down sufficiently. The pears were carried 

 at a temperature of 44 to 46 degrees, and I 

 have asked Mr. Brown, the government in- 

 spector here, to write you, as he is making a 

 full report thereon to the government. Some 

 of the cases of pears were in perfect order, 

 and sold remarkably well, but others again 

 were in ripe and overripe condition. Had 

 the fruit been all in green condition, the 

 A No. I would have realized $2.00 and the 

 No. I $1.50, but as explained above these 

 ripe and overripe had to be allowed for. The 

 fifteen boxes of peaches were just a mass of 

 decayed fruit and could not be offered for 

 sale at all. The pears would have looked 

 better had they been wrapped in paper. 

 There were also some California plums in 

 the same chamber which also landed in bad 

 condition. They should not have put such 

 a great quantity of fruit in one chamber, nd 

 should have left air passages so that the tem- 

 perature could have been kept at a right de- 

 gree." 



THE GKEENING IN PERTH COOTY. 



THE finest samples of the Rhode Is- 

 land Greening apple that I ever 

 saw (says Mr. T. H. Race, of 

 Mitchell) were brought in to me a few- 

 days ago by a farmer of Hibbert township, 

 county of Perth. The farmer, Mr. John 

 Kemp, has five trees of the same variety in 

 an orchard of perhaps two acres, which has 

 not been broken up for years. The apples 

 brought to me were off one of the five trees, 

 but were so much larger and cleaner than 

 the fruit off the other four that -some per- 



