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loam, with a reasonable prospect of fair 

 returns, but we would not feel justified 

 in assuring our correspondent of any 

 extraordinary profits. Only this sea- 

 son the writer has had some 50 bis. of 

 Barletts slaughtered in a glut in the 

 city of Montreal at from $2.00 to 

 $4.00 per barrel, and expenses to be 

 deducted. For a while Toronto market 

 was also glutted That is over now, 

 and Louise and Duchess are selling at 

 good prices. As a rule, from |4.00 to 

 $6 00 per barrel may be reasonably 

 expected for all good varieties of pears 

 in our city markets, but better prices 

 may often be obtained in small towns 

 north of our fruit regions than in such 

 cities as London, Toronto, and Mon- 

 treal. 



With regard to varieties, there are 

 many that are promising, but we would 

 recommend for summer pears Doyenne 

 d'Ete, Rostiezer, Clapps' Favorite and 

 Bartlett; for fall. Duchess and Louise 

 as dwarfs, and Beurr(^ d'Anjou and 

 Doyenne Boussock as standards ; and 

 for winter, Lawrence, Winter Nelis, 

 and Josephine d'Malines. 



Facing- Up Peaches. 



112. The other day a citizen bought fioiii a 

 Queen street fruiterer for $1.50 each two boxes 

 of Crawford peaches. But when they were 

 opened it was found thac there was merely a 

 layer of Crawfords along the top of each 

 basket, and that all the rest of the contents 

 were of a very inferior vaiiety. Naturally the 

 citizen was indignant, and he ordered the 

 baskets back to the dealer, and asked that 

 they be replaced by genuine Crawfords. But 

 the fruiterer represented that he had bought 

 the peaches for Crawfords, and was not aware 

 that the baskets were loaded up the other way, 

 and declined to make any reparation. The 

 citizen then carried his appeal to the police 

 authorities, and there was informed that he 

 had no remedy unless he could establish that 

 the dealer was aware that the fruit was not of 

 the character represented. Now, is not this 

 putting a premium on ignorance? It is all 

 very well to ar^ue that the fruiterer buys in 

 good faith, and is no party to the fraud com- 



mitted by the grower and i^acker, but ought 

 not he to ascertain that the fruit is of the kind 

 ordered ? and if he has been victimised he 

 ought to seek his remedy against the shi|)per, 

 just as the retail buyer should have his remedy 

 against the dealer from whom he purchases. 

 The retail dealer has no business to ask the 

 public to share the risks he assumes in buying 

 his stock, perhaps from growers of doubtful 

 methods and questionable honesty, and when 

 he sells a box of Crawford peaches that are not 

 Crawford peaches, no matter whether or not 

 he be a partner in the fraud, the customer has 

 a right to protection, and a right to insist that 

 the dealer shall know what he sells, and, where 

 the goods sujiplied are not according to sample 

 and reijresentations, he ought to fill the condi- 

 tions of sale or refund the money. Besides, a 

 great deal of the most objectionable " facing" 

 is done, not by the fruit-growers, but by the 

 storekeepers, who, by covering up bad fruit 

 with good, make to-day's consignments of fruit 

 carry off the remnants of last week's receipts. 

 — Toronto Globe. 



We have no pity to waste upon any 

 grower or fruit-dealer who is found 

 practising the contemptible trick of 

 " facing " up his fruit with extra 

 selected specimens, and concealing 

 second class stock in the interior of 

 the package. It is an old saying that 

 "there are tricks in all trades except 

 ours," and truly, if any class of men 

 are supposed to be free from trickery, 

 it is that to which the " honest 

 farmer ' belongs. But now it appears 

 that even among that class there are 

 some who love the dollar better than 

 they do their fair name. 



We wish to emphatically condemn 

 such trickery as pure dishonesty, and 

 unworthy of any respectable fruit- 

 grower. It brings disgrace upon one 

 of the most attractive, as well as most 

 ennobling, of rural occupations — the 

 culture of fruit trees and vines. Nor 

 does it pay ; for instead of making 

 money he loses it. The shipper of 

 such packages is soon "spotted" by 

 dealers in our markets, and his fruit is 

 looked on with suspicion, and sold at a 

 discount. 



