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SCIONS OF FRUIT TREES IMPORTED 

 FROM RUSSIA BY THE ONTARIO 

 FRUIT GROWERS ASSOCIATION, 

 SPRING OF 1890. 



Sir, — I sent you a large box, 500 Kilo- 

 grammes in weight, with about 2,000 Scions, 

 7na Warsaw, Hamburgh, Liverpool and per 

 Beaver line to Montreal, to be forwarded to 

 Grimsby. 



You will find many of the same names, 

 because I have collected them from various 

 parties ; but this will be interesting to you 

 for more careful identification and nomencla- 

 ture. You will no doubt find some among 



them which are already disseminated in your 

 country, only under other and incorrect 

 Russian, or English names, but it is difficult 

 for me to know which you have. 



I selected everything which I thought 

 would succeed in Canada, and hope you will 

 be pleased. I have not yet received your 

 box, for, as I wrote you. it was arrested at 

 Bremen, on account of the two little grape 

 vines which were in it. It has cost me a great 

 deal of money, and now after all, I fear it 

 will be lost. Yours very truly, Jaroslav 

 NiEMETZ, Rovno Wolinia, Russia. 



Note by Editor. 

 in May number. 



-The list will be given 



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THE APPLE MARKET. 



During the third week in March there were 

 only about 4,000 barrels of apples exported 

 from all the Atlantic ports to Great Britain. 

 Although prices in Britain are high, they are 

 also very high in our own markets, and con- 

 sequently there is little reason for exporting. 

 Toronto market quotes apples at from $3.00 to 

 $4.00 per barrel; Buffalo, .$4.00 ; Montreal 

 at I4.00 to $6.00; New York City, $5.00, 

 The stock in hand at Montreal is very low, 

 the Trade Bulletin placing it at only 1,500 

 barrels, which quantity will soon be 

 exhausted. . 



APPLE CULTURE IN NOVA SCOTIA. 



Mr. C. F. Just, of London England, writ- 

 ing to the Standard, extols Nova Scotia as 

 an apple growing country. He says : — 

 " Thousands of acres have been planted for 

 years past, and these are rapidly coming 

 into bearing. The western section of the 

 Province around the Bay of Fundy is the 

 most favorable for apple culture, and there 

 is plenty of room for young men, with say 

 one thousand pounds, willing to learn. A 



Nova Scotia orchard with one thousand 

 trees was declared to me, by the Secretary 

 of the Fruit Growers' Association , to be capa- 

 ble of a return, from the tenth to the 

 fifteenth year, at the rate of two hundred 

 pounds a year, and for thirty years there- 

 after at the rate of four hundred pounds a 

 year, and all at the initial cost of six hundred 

 pounds. The climate of Nova Scotia is 

 excellent under the influence of the Gulf 

 Steam, which washes its shores. 



I was interested to find among the settlers 

 several Englishmen who had tried orange 

 growing in Florida, and had moved to Nova 

 Scotia and grown apples, with profit to their 

 health and their pockets. In fact I was 

 assured that, taking a number of years, the 

 profit from apple culture exceeded that from 

 oranges, apart from the additional benefit of 

 a good climate and of the institutions and 

 laws dear to Englishmen under their own 

 flag. 



I could give additional details as to what 

 is being done outside England in apple grow- 

 ing, but conclude that I have said enough in 

 my remarks above to satisfy all as to the 

 renumerative investment it affords if con- 

 ducted on proper and intelligent lines. 



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Books: — The Horticulturist's Rule Book. 

 A compendium of useful information for 

 fruit growers, truck gardeners, florists and 

 others. Completed to the close of the year 

 1889. By L. N. Bailey, Horticulturist at 

 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Few 

 books contain so much useful information in 

 so little space. — Transactions of the Indiana 



Horticultural Society , for the year 1888, being 

 the proceedings of the 28th annual session, 

 held, at Indianapolis; C. M. Hobbs, secre- 

 tary. 



Journals : — The Canadian Queen, a fine 

 illustrated ladies' magazine, de%oted to fash- 

 ion, art, literature, flowers, toilet, borne de- 

 coration etc., published at Toronto, Ont. 



