CAiVA DIAX llORTJClLTiniST. 



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188.1. A Russian aj)i)le tree, now alioiit t»i 

 feet high. 



I received all tliese liy post. 



A. I). I-'kriuku, 



FEiuiUS, Dec. \lih, 1887. 



Bkookvillk, Dec , 1887. 



Sir, — As suggested in your prospectus for 

 this year, 1 ciioose from your very liberal 

 list, " No. 4, I'ackage of spring tlowcring 

 bulba." Your ever improving, and always 

 welcome and instructive niontldy, deserves 

 the support of everyone owning either gar- 

 den, orcliard or house plants. How you can 

 afford to give so niucli for so small a sub- 

 scription, I cannot imagine, and I do iiope 

 you may be rewarded, as you deserve, by a 

 largely increased subscription list for 1888. 



VVisliing you every possible success, 

 Yours truly, 



Jons Oochkank. 



BKUt'KVILLK, O.NT. 



Sir,— Please find enclosed my subscription 

 to Canadian Horticulturist for current 



year. 1 could not tiiiiik of doing without it. 



'I'lic (Jataliui you sent me two years ago, 

 after doing lirst rate the first year, has this 

 year withereil and died. 1 think our climate 

 is t<to cold for it. 



The Ontario Strawberry has done splen- 

 didly. 1 liave now from tiie three plants you 

 sent me, over Wvc hundred, and had fruit 

 this summer wiiich measured HA inches in 

 circumference. The flavor is ilelicious. I 

 tliink that next summer I will have all the 

 fruit I want for home use, and some to spare. 

 Yours very truly, 



I). S. MauDonali). 



Maiion Bav, N.S., Oct. 1st, ISSj. 



Sir, — The Dewberry received last year 

 bore several berries this season. Jet black ; 

 larger tlian Snyder, and ripe witii <>regg 

 blackcap ; )><)or flavor, will need mulcliing to 

 keep tlie fruit clean. W. M. 



OSHAWA. 



OUR MARKETS. 



Applks. — Our anticipations have l>een well 

 sustained respecting the price of tliis fruit. 

 They are quoted in Toronto (a SH.OO for best 

 winters, with upward tendency ; Philadel- 

 phia, about ditto ; Montreal, about ditto in 

 car lots ; while English market reports con- 

 tinue most encouraging, showing a sharp 

 advance of prices. Choice varieties now 

 bring about $.5,00 per bl. in Liverpool mar- 

 ket. 



Onions.— ^Messrs. Pancoast & Griftitli, 

 Philadelphia, write: "The Onion crop is 

 generally reported quite light in the principal 

 onion growing districts of the United States. 

 In Connecticut tlie crop does not average 

 more than •27") bushels per acre, on her 800 

 acres, wliich is below her usual production, 

 and is small, and bad keeping stock. 



In New York the crop is not turning out 

 liJO buslu'ls per acre, on her 2, .500 acres, 

 against '248 bushels per acre last year. 



About tlie same shortage is sustaine<l in 

 New Jersey, and similar reports are received 

 from the west. Yellow Onions are now worth 

 $2.7o to *3.00 per barrel. Dec. 8tii. 



In Toronto tliey Acre quoted, about the 

 same date, at from §3.2.') to ^3.50 per bl. 



PoTAToKS are reported a shorter crop 

 tiian tliat of 1881, so that they slu)uld 

 sell unusually liigli before spring. In Toronto 

 retail prices range from 00 to 0.") cts. per 

 bushel for best (pialities. In Montreal, on 



Dec. SO, they were (pioted at 75c. per bag in 

 car lots. 



Messrs. Pancoast X: Griffiths, Philadelphia, 

 write : Dear Sir, — It is evident this spring 

 we shall have to look elsewhere than to 

 Maine for our supply of seeil potatoes, and it 

 occurs to us tiiat some of your patrons might 

 find it to their i)rofit to ship unmixed Rose 

 hei-e the latter part of February and in 

 March, when we shall have demand for 

 several tliousand l>airels, principally for pure 

 Early lioxt. The demand is commencing 

 already from Florida and (Jeorgia, and we 

 are .selling the l)est Rose seed at ."?3 2") per 

 barrel here, and look for prices to rule up in 

 February and March. 



MoNTKKAL. — Messrs \'ipond McBride 

 write, " Trade is fairly brisk mainly in an- 

 ticipation of holiday recjuirements ; apples 

 are easy, and inclined to be lower." They 

 send quotations as follows: — Apples, best 

 selected, .^.S.OO } car lots, .^2.25 to 2.7.'); 

 Catawba grapes, 10c. to 12c. per lb. ; dried 

 apples () to 6ic. per lb. ; evaporated ditto, 

 9 to 10c. per lb. 



Crapes. ^A report of the sale of 150 

 baskets of Canadian (irapes, ship])ed to 

 (ilasgow, Scotland, last October, will appear 

 in our Februarv number. Tliis and much 

 other valuable matter has been crowded out 

 of tiiis nund»er. — Ki>. 



