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quite 12c. per basket. By the time the 

 shipper receives his account sales, he 

 would be apt to conckxde that there 

 was no profit in expressing fruit to this 

 market. 



FRUIT EXPORTS. 



Statistics Furnished bv Wm. J. Fletcher, Ottawa. 



Eruit of all kinds (green) produced 

 -in and ex[)orted from Canada : — 



Value. 

 Fiscal year ending June 30, 1877, $194,942 



1878, 149,33.3 



1879, 157,618 



1880, 347,166 



1881, 645,658 



For 5 years; 1877-81 $1,494,717 



Fiscal year ending June 30, 1882, $540,464 



1883, 499,185 



1884, 173,048 



1885, 635,240 

 •' " " 1886, 499,598 



For 10 years, 1877-86 $3,842,252 



i^.B.—Of course the heavy crop of 

 1886 does not show in this table. 



APPLE CROP OUTLOOK IN U. S. 

 FALL OF 1887. 



In many fruit growing sections the 

 apple crop will be almost a failure, and 

 nowhere is there a fair prospect of an 

 average crop. In New England, where 

 earlier reports were most promising, we 

 now hear of marked declines in the 

 prospects, and though present indica- 

 tions are more favorable there than 

 anj'where else the crop can average 

 only medium. A few localities in New 

 York and the New England States 

 promise good quality fruit, but the 

 general tenor is to the contrary. Pres- 

 ent approximate averages of the princi- 

 pal States are : — New York, Rhode 

 Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, 86; 

 Maine, Vermont, Michigan, 74 ; Penn- 

 sylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Kan- 

 sas, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, 

 53 ; Ohio, Illinois, 30. Taken as a 

 whole the prospect is for a crop below 



medium quality and one of the shortest 

 on record. Yours, etc., 



PANCOAST & GRIFFITHS, 

 Sept. 20, 1897. 122 Dock St., Philadelphia. 



Jloreiitrg 



SOME OF THE NEWER ORNA- 

 MENTAL TREES. 

 By favor of Mr. Thomas C. Meehan, 

 of Germantown, Philadelphia, we are 

 able to show our readers the excellent 

 illusti'ations of some of the newer ever- 

 green and deciduous trees used under 

 the above heading, in this, and in the 

 succeeding number of the Canadian 

 Hortictdturist. 



If there is one point, more than 

 another, to be aimed at in the laying out 

 and planting of pleasure grounds, it is 

 to secure a pleasing variety. Mono- 

 tony tii'es the eye, and shows a lack of 

 taste. Many of our public parks, 

 school grounds and private lawns are 

 sadly at fault in this respect. It would 

 almost seem as if there were no decidu- 

 ous trees in existence, except the hard 

 and soft maples, and no evergreens 

 with which to cheer the barren land- 

 scape in winter except the Norway 

 spruce. 



And in the planting of evergreens 

 how little judgment is shown in select- 

 ing kinds suitable to the size of a lawn ! 

 A Norway spruce is often planted in a 

 little door yard twenty feet square. 

 At thirty years of age its branches 

 extend from ten to fifteen feet in every 

 direction, and rob the owner of every 

 foot of his lawn, unless prevented by 

 the most vigorous pruning. 



Among the pines, the Scotch and the 

 Austrian have been considei-ably plant- 

 ed in Ontario, and although these are 

 slow growers and dwarfish, when com- 

 pared with our Canadian natives, they 

 are coarser in foliage, and hence less 

 ornamental. In the 



