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in their favor — a fine appearance, and it will be a long time before the 

 inhabitants of large towns learn to buy fruit for its flavor alone. Color and 

 size are indispensable to make any fruit sell well in the London markets, 

 and these points are just what the Tasmanian apples are strong in. Prob- 

 ably in a few years Tasmanian apples will be as plentiful with us as American 

 apples are now, although it must be borne in mmd that the cost of trans- 

 port is much more, not only by reason of a longer sea voyage, but also 

 because the deterioration of the fruit on the journey must be guarded 

 against by means of specially constructed cool chambers. The rapid 

 growth of this trade shows, however, that the profits are sufficiently large 

 to warrant this extra expense, and we may now regard Australian apples 

 as forming an important item in the supply of our fruit markets. 



Home growers, contrary to what is usually the case when a new source 

 of supply is opened, may regard the probable great extension of the Aus- 

 tralian apple trade with indifference, as they have time to dispose of their 

 own produce before the foreign fruit comes to hand. Whether the impor- 

 tation in bulk of good apples during the spring months is likely to affect 

 the value of home-grown forced fruits of various kinds is another matter, 

 but it is evident that the apple is as much appreciated at this time of year 

 as in the winter. — The Garden. 



HARDINESS OF THE PRINCESS LOUISE. 



IN the May number of the Horticulturist, page 155, L. Pasche asks a 

 question in reference to the above. It might be partially answered by 



one year's experience of its growth in Muskoka. The Princess Louise 

 apple was one of the trees and plants distributed by the Fruit Growers' 

 Association to its members for 1889. I selected it, and received it by mail 

 as usual in good time for early spring planting. With it I planted two 

 larger trees of the same apple, bought from a nurseryman. The trees grew 

 well. To-day, on looking to see how they had passed through the winter, 

 I found all three looking healthy and showing signs of growth, even to the 

 top buds of every young branch. 



Cape Elizabeth, Muskoka, Out. F. W. COATE. 



GROWING PLUMS IN THE COLD REGIONS. 



A T some of the meetings of our Association the novel mode of protect. 



(Stm ing plum trees from the destructive influences of the cold which has 



been employed in New Brunswick has been referred to and partially 



described. It is, therefore, interesting to notice in a late number of the 



