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ULTURIST. 



better to send all there that is really good, as 

 freights there are, in any case, much in favor 

 of the shipper compared with freights here. Tt 

 is easily seen, also, that there is a great lack of 

 despatch in the C.P.R. in forwarding freii^^lit 

 here — and as for carriage, the fruit has the 

 appearance of having hnd a more than usually 

 rough handling in passage here. I never saw 

 such imperfect, badly bruised fruit. We certain- 

 ly cannot congratulate the C.P.R. on anything 

 they are doing for Ontario fruit growers. 



California grapes, which are very fine, w!Jl' 

 practically shut ours out of this inarket this 



I f .ir. -Alkx. McD. Allan. — Winni 

 pea, O'U. -.',"/, 1S88. 



G T.R. Denies Favoritism. 



,. ^IK, \Mnrs of 2()th received to day. There 

 has bi" n 11.. such rate as 48 cents per barrel 

 from aii\- iMiint in Ontario to Liverpool ; $1.00 

 .fa M^^ best figure that can be obtained, and 

 *"**■■ this is only good for present shipments. — 



QuiNN, District General Freight Agent. 



iUnn, 2'Jth Oct., 1888. 



OUR FI^UIT MARKETS. 



Shipping Direct to London. • 



Regarding shipments direct to this pdrti^ill 

 will not agree that it is cheaper. Tli.' fmgKt 

 may look lower, but the expenses of dock dues, 

 carting, &c., will cost you from Od. to Is. ]<1. 

 per barrel, which, by way of Liverpool, is in 

 elusive, and above all, the fruit gets much ux.io 

 knocked about than coming via Liverpool. 



You may commence making shipments of 

 Russetts and Spies about the middle of Nov- 

 ember. With Spies you must be assured that 

 they are really xound, hard fruit, otherwise the 

 condition at the time of arrival is bad. Good 

 choice Russetts ought to do well.— J. B. 

 Tnou.\^.— London, mh Oct., 1888. 



Covent Garden, London, England. 



Our market has been very good for fair fruit, 

 Greenings making from 12s. to 15s. ; Baldwins, 

 12s. 6d. to 17s. ; Fancies from 17s. to 25s., but 

 as regards Canadian fruit the arrivals appear 

 to be worse this season than in the past ; the 

 packing is very faulty, as well as the want bf . 

 discrimination as to the class of fruit that will 

 stand the voyage. Ji-. 



\our American contemporaries have taken 

 tlif Ic-soi] from past years, and with the result 

 that till y take care to pack and ship the proper 

 fruit, with the result that is knocking Cana- 

 <iian)fruit t'utirely out. We know, of course, 

 that later on when you commence to ship the 

 iiii^der fruit, better results will follow, but it is 

 ;ji,s (.well to commence well and finish better, 

 Uian'to coinnience bad and finish better.— J. 

 r>,^HO^u\'^. -London, 20th Oct., 1888. 



■ Liverpool. 



Mhssi;-. Williams, Thomais & Co., writes 

 undfir date of 8th November as follows : — 



Sir,— Su|i|)]ies of Apples during the week 

 have boon plentiful, but more moderate, con- 

 siiC[uently prices have improved, we quote : 

 l\ings, lOs. 3p. to 18s. 6p. ; Baldwins, 12s. to 

 ,14s.; Greenings, 12s. 6p. to 15s. 9p.; Russets, 

 Hs, '3p. to 15s. 6p.; 20 Ozs. and Ribston 

 ' Pippins, 14s to 17s. 3p.: Various, lis. to 16s. gp. 

 Good green fruit is scarce and wanted. 



Advices from New York are to effect that 

 shipments from that State will be light for some 

 time, so can recommend your shipping. 



REVIEW. 



Transactions loiua Horticultural Societi/,lSS7. 

 — Geo. Van Houten, Lenox, Iowa, Secretai-y. 

 A volume of 437 pages, bound in cloth, and 

 containing many interesting papers, from which 

 we hope to find room for some selections. 



Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Convention 

 of the Society of American Florists, held at New 

 York City, August 21st, 22nd and 23rd, 1888. 

 W. J. Stewart, Boston, Mass., Secretary. 



Illustrated and Descriptive Catalor/ue, Sim- 

 mers' Flowering Bulbs. — J. A. Simmers, 147 

 King St. East, Toronto. 



Lovett's Illustrated Catalogue of Trees and 

 Plants.-S. T. Lovett, Little Silver, N. J. 



The American Agriculturist, 751 Broadway, 

 N. Y. The American aloes, our native palms, 

 and the glacier pink, a beautiful flower of the 

 higher Alpine regions, are described and illus- 

 trated in the November number. 



American Grape Vines — Semi- Annual Price 

 List, Fall, 1888.— Bush & Son & Meissner, 

 Bushberg, Jefferson County, Mo. 



Wholesale Trade List of the Cayuga Lake 

 Nurseries, also of Foreign Fruit Tree Stock, 

 4;c. — H. S. Anderson, Union Springs. N. Y. 



Circular to Nurserymen, concerning next 

 Meeting of the American Association of Nur- 

 serymen at Chicago in June, 1889, at which a 

 nurserymen's institute is to be held. — Chas. 

 Green, Secretary, Rochester, N. Y. 



Catalogue D'Ognons a Flcnrs, t&c. — H. 

 ScHMiTZ, 20 Rue d Brabant Gand, Belgium. 



Wholesale Catalogue American Grape Vines, 

 Small Fruit Plant.s, &c.— Geo S. Josselyn, 

 Fredonia, N. Y. 



Bust (Puccinia graminis)— Bulletin 36, by 

 Prof. J. Hoyes Panton, M. A.; issued by 

 Ont. Dept. of Agriculture. 



