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CATALOGUES. 



Reid's Handy Pocket Price List of everything for the Fruit Grower. E. VV. Reid, 

 Bridgeport, O. 



Wholesale Trade List of George Achelis, Morris Nurseries, West Chester, Pa., 

 U. S., for the fall of 1893. 



Price List of the Sarcoxia Nurseries. James B. Wild & Bros., proprietors, 

 Sarcoxia, Missouri. Fall, 1893 ; spring, 1894. 



Illustrated Catalogue of Flowering Bulbs, Autumn, 1893. James A. Simmers. 

 147-1 ">1 King St. E., Toronto, Ont. 



THE BRITISH APPLE MARKET. 

 LIVERPOOL. 



Messrs. Simons, Shuttleworth & Co., Liverpool, cable: — "The few Canadian apples 

 here this week have been sold at low prices, averaging 4/ to 6/ per barrel. New York 

 fruit doing 1/ to 2/ better. We do not advise the shipment of early fruit ; home and 

 continental supplies are very heavy." My early advices of an abundant fruit crop 

 throughout Europe are being confirmed by every mail ; I must therefore strongly impress 

 upon our shippers' minds the necessity of exercising great caution this season. Not jonly 

 is there a very large apple crop in Europe, but all kinds of fruit will be very abundant 

 and cheap. The Almeira grape and the Mediterranean orange crops will be unusually 

 large, all contributing to force and keep down the price for Canadian apples. It will also 

 be well to bear in mind that trade, generally, is in a very unsatisfactory state ; the colliers' 

 strike can only be looked upon with apprehension ; without a good supply of cheap coal, 

 every industry will be disorganized. I need but refer to the effect which the cotton 

 operatives' strike, last year, had upon the price of fruit in the British markets, to show 

 that this is not an imaginary danger. Great Britain requires but limited quantities of the 

 very best apples, and these at moderate prices this season. 



Yours truly, 



Toronto, Sept. 9, 1893. J. M. Shuttleworth. 



