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CORRECTION?. 



The Orillia Fruit Exhibit. — A correc- 

 tion. On page 422 Mr. Race frankly ad- 

 mits the " superiority of the Spy, Baldwin 

 and Greening." This should read the 

 inferiority of those varieties ; at the end of 

 the paragraph on the second column, instead 

 of " as far as possible education/' read 

 educative ; and at the bottom of the page, in- 

 stead of " the tree is said to be a good 

 grader/' read a good grower. 



Bruce County. — On page 402 of Octo- 

 ber number, instead of A Visit to Grey 

 County, read A Visit to Bruce County. 



APPLES ] ' 



THE Fruit Division, Ottawa, has sev- 

 eral times called attention to the 

 scarcity of fruit in Europe this sea- 

 son, and the consequent good prices which 



were likely to rule there for first-class Cana- 

 diaii fruit. In reporting on a cargo of 165 

 barrels of Canadian apples recently landed 

 at Bristol in such a condition that the juice 

 was leaking through the bottom of the cars 

 before leaving the dock, Mr. H. J. Goff, 

 Inspector of the Department of Agriculture 

 at that port, confirms the opinion frequently 

 expressed by Chief McKinnon, of the Fruit 

 Division. Mr. Goff says : " I feel confi- 

 dent that if our shippers are as particular as 

 they should be, shipping only first-class 

 fruit, properly packed and put up, this sea- 

 son is bound to prove one of high mar- 

 ket prices, as there is practically no fruit in 

 England." 



FRUIT, GOOD AND BAD. 



Mr. John Driscoll, Inspector at London, 

 reports that the S. S. Evangeline discharged 



