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large, and meets the want of a better class of buyers." Speaking of 

 Pomme Grise, we usually rank this variety as a small apple, yet it 

 brings from eighteen to twenty shillings sterling per barrel in the 

 Liverpool markets, while the King of Tompkins, which is three or four 

 times the size of the Pomme Grise, brings only from twelve to seven- 

 teen shillings. 



The fourth sort in our half dozen would be the Baldwin were we 

 planting in those parts of the Province where that variety does well, 

 for although it brings only from eleven to fifteen shillings per barrel, 

 yet such is the universal popularity of this variety in the world's 

 markets, and such the great productiveness of the tree, that it is 

 nevertheless a very profitable variety. Mr. Cochrane in his circular of 

 the eighth and sixteenth of October calls the attention of shippers to 

 the fact that in their anxiety to send their winter fruit forward they 

 have picked their Baldwins too early, in consequence of which they 

 have lacked color, which has had an injurious effect upon the price 

 obtained for them. 



Could we grow the Fameuse or Snow Apple free from those black 

 spots which so mar the appearance and quality of the fruit, we 

 should take that for our fifth variety, for the tree is hardy, vigorous 

 and productive, and the fruit sells readily at from fifteen to seventeen 

 shillings per barrel ; but alas, we can not rely upon securing fair fruit, 

 nay, it is often so badly spotted as to be worthless. If there be places 

 where it can be grown free from blemish, there it will be well worthy 

 of the planter's attention. 



Very probably some of our readers have been wondering why we 

 have not enumerated the Newtown Pippin in our list of varieties long 

 before this, seeing that it commands such a high price, from twenty- 

 five to thirty-five shillings, or from six dollars and a quarter to eight 

 dollars and three quarters per barrel. It is because, like the Snow 

 Apple, it can not be depended upon to yield fair fruit, but that on the 

 contrary the fruit may be so badly spotted as to be worthless. If 

 there be any place in Canada where it can be grown free from blemish 

 year after year, there it should stand at the head of the list of the half 

 dozen. But the region where this variety can be grown without 

 spotting is very circumscribed. In all the State of New York there is 

 but a very small territory on the bank of the Hudson River, near 

 Poughkeepsie, where it can be successfully grown, and no place haa 



