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as a dessert fruit ; perhaps later in the 

 season the acidity may become less 

 prominent. We think it would make 

 an excellent cooking apple. If the tree 

 be extremely hardy, capable of endur- 

 ing the extreme cold of Northern On- 

 tai'io, this seedling will be very valuable 

 as a winter apple for those parts of the 

 country where our higher flavored 

 varieties utterly fail. 



APPLES IN ENGLAND. 



Keeling & Hunt, London, England, 

 report sales, Febriiary 6th, 1885, of 

 Baldwins at 15s. 6c?. to 1 9s. sterling, 

 the latter price being for high-colored 

 fruit ; R. I. Greenings at 8s. to 18s.; 

 Roxbnry Russets at 23s. 6fZ.; American 

 evaporated apples at 40s per hundred 

 weight. 



Green &, Whineray, K. 30, Exchange 

 Buildings, Liverpool, England, report 

 on 7th February, as follows : 



The following quotations are for tight 

 barrels : Baldwins, Boston, 14s. to 17s.; 

 do., Maine, 16s. to 17s. 6d.; do., New 

 York, 15s. to 16s. 6fZ. ; do., Canadian, 

 16.'^. to IDs.; Greenings, 13s. to 16s. Qd.; 

 Black Oxford, 1 4s. to 15s.; Newtons, 

 20s. to 25s.; Rox Russets, 12s. to 15s.; 

 Golden Russets, 17s. to 19s.; Golden 

 Russets (Canadian), 22s. to 26s.; 

 Northern Spy, 13s. to 18s.; Kings, 20s. 

 to 23s. Slack packed, 12s. to 14s. (id. 

 Slack and wet, 9s. to 12.s-. Qd. 



Arrivals for the week are as follows : 

 Wyoming, at New York, 812 brls.; 

 Britannic, at New York, 2,215 brls.; 

 Sardinian, at Portland, 3,993 brls.; 

 N'orseman, at Boston, 4,850 brls.; Vir- 

 ginian, at Boston, 2,439 brls.; Samaria, 

 at Boston, 1,414 brls.; Istrian, at Bos- 

 ton, 2,146 brls. Total arrivals for 

 week, 17,869 brls. Total arrival to 

 date, 409,070 brls. 



CHARLES DOWNING. 



The Fruit-Growers' Association of 

 Ontario, at its winter meeting, passed 

 the following resolution, expressive of 

 their sense of the loss sustained by rea- 

 son of the death of this eminent horti- 

 culturist : 



Moved by Alex. McD. Allan, seconded 

 by P. C. Dempsey, and resolved "that the 

 Ontario Fruit-Growers' Association have 

 learned with feelings of the profoundest 

 regret of the death of the venerable Charles 

 Downing, of Newburg, N.Y., one of the 

 most unselfish of men ; in his writings 

 pointed and always reliable ; in his cor- 

 respondence prompt and obliging ; charit- 

 able towards all men, yet firm in all good 

 principles. There is, we believe, no hor- 

 ticulturist of the present century who has 

 left behind him so valuable a work of 

 reference ixpon frviits and fruit culture, 

 and at the same time retained so warm a 

 place in the hearts of all true friends of 

 horticulture. A man possessed of the 

 finest traits of character that combme to 

 make a perfect model of the true horticul- 

 turist, the man and the Christian. In 

 placing upon record our sentiments at 

 parting with one of so great value, not 

 only to horticulturists, biit to humanity at 

 large, we know that the gain is his while 

 we deplore the loss, and that he is now 

 reaping the rewards of so pure a char- 

 acter." 



THE LONGFIELD APPLE. 



Doctor T. H. Hoskins, of Vermont, 

 writes to the Rural New-Yorker that 

 this is the only winter apple of the 

 Department of Agriculture's import- 

 ation, that has fruited sufficiently with 

 him to give an idea of its merit. It is 

 of the size, color, form and general 

 appearance of Fameuse, but covered 

 with a heavy blue bloom. Tlie stem is 

 short and slender, inserted in a small 

 but i-ather deep cavity. The calyx is 

 closed and in a very shallow, regular 

 basin. The core is rather large for the 

 size of the apple. The flesh is much 

 like that of Fameuse and of very good 



