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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



OUR FRUIT MARiCETS, 



FRUIT EXPORTS OF ONTARIO. 



Dear Sir, — I enclose you a table showing 

 the total exports from Ontario nine years, 

 ended June 30, 1888, value and price per bar- 

 rel : 



Year. 



Price per bbl. Barrels. 



I»»0 *2 37 32,250 



1881 I 50 99,834 



1882 2 10 90,024 



1883 3 15 47,639 



1884 3 25 12,323 



1885 2 21 62,433 



1886 I 85 102,303 



1887 I 92 141,260 



1888 2 06 226,070 



Value. 

 I 57.248 

 159,118 

 igi,i6o 

 149,962 

 40,047 



141.951 

 189,837 

 271,595 

 403.587 



Total imports into Ontario for eight years 

 ended June 30, 1888, value and price per 

 barrel : 



Year. 



Price per bbl. Barrels. Value. 



1881 $1 46 8,147 $11,953 



1882 1 82 4,167 7,588 



1883 2 49 6,850 17,088 



1884 2 71 6,028 16,348 



1885 2 10 5.448 -1.459 



1886 2 00 5.258 10,539 



1887 1 99 4,344 8,345 



1888 2 34 2,989 7,053 



— Yours truly, P. E. Bucke, Ottawa. 



OUR BOOK TABLE 



American PoMOLOGiCAL Society, Session 

 of 1889, containing the proceedings of the 

 22nd session, held at Ocala, Florida, Feb. 20, 

 21, and 22, 1889; compiled by the Secretary, 

 Mr. A. A. Crozier, Ames, Iowa. 



Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Con- 

 vention OF THE Society of American 

 Florists, held at Buffalo, N.Y. , Aug. 20, 21, 

 22 and 23, 1889 ; Secretary, Wm. J. Stewart, 

 Boston, Mass. 



Seventh Annual Report of the Ohio 

 Agricultural Experiment Station for 

 1889. Prof. W. B. Lazenby, Secretary of 

 the Board of Control, Columbus, Ohio. 



Digest of the Annual Reports of the 

 Agricultural Stations of the United 

 States for 1888, published by the authority 

 of the Secretary of Agriculture. Part I., 

 June, 1889. 



Transactions of the Iowa State Hor- 

 ticultural Society for 1888. Twenty- 

 third annual session, held at Des Moines 

 January 15, 16 and 17, 1889. Secretary 

 Geo. Van Houten, Lennox, Iowa. Cloth 

 pp. 494. 



Annual Report of the State Horticul- 

 tural Society of Missouri, 1889. Cloth, 



pp. 501. Secretary, L. A. Goodman, West- 

 port, Missouri. 



Catalogues : — The Idaho Pear, published 

 by the Idaho Pear Co., Lewiston, Idaho, 

 with colored plate of the pear. — Lovett's 

 Illustrated Catalogue of Trees and Plants ; 

 J. T. Lovett Company, Little Silver, N.J. 

 — Descriptive Catalogue of Dutch, French 

 and other Bulbous Roots, Fruit Trees, Roses, 

 etc. ; John Laing and Sons, Forest Hill, 

 London, S.E., England. — Wm Paul and 

 Son's Catalogue of Roses, Waltham Cross, 

 Hertfordshire, England. — Nursery Trade 

 List for Autumn, 1889, and Spring, 1890 ; 

 P. E. Transon Bros. ^Orleans, France. 



Mrs. Alpheus Hardy : Overheard at 

 THE Conference. — " Oh, ma, here's a 

 bearded Chrysanthemum !" exclaimed a little 

 girl at the Chiswick Conference the other day. 

 " You should not say bearded, my love ; you 

 should call it hirsute." " Her suit, ma ? I see 

 it is named Mrs. Alpheus Hardy. Does she 

 wear a hair suit ?" " No, my child, of course 

 not. I mean to say that the flower is hairy ; 

 that is the meaning of the word hirsute." 

 " Well, ma, I. can't see the difference between 

 bearded and hairy. I am sure Mr. Barnum 

 would be delighted to get this bearded lady 

 for his great show. What a jolly bit of fun 

 it would be." 



