292 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



BUFFALO. 



Peaches continue to arrive freely from Maryland and Delaware. Early State varieties 

 also in good supply ; all receipts in good conditio i in fairly good demand, especially good 

 yellow stock. Blackberries, only a few arriving. Huckleberries, arrivals continue libera], 

 demand only fair. Grapes in good supply, demand fair ; State stock arriving, selling fairly 

 well. Watermelons, receipts fairly liberal, demand fair for large fresh stock. Canteloupes 

 in fair supply and demand. Apples, market cleaned up, good demand for line State stock, 

 highly colored fruit wanted, inferior slow sale. Pears in fair supply. State Bartlelts com- 

 mencing to arrive. Plums arrive freely, moderate demand for best varieties. 



NATIVE FBITITS. 



Blackberries, per quart §0 06 to $0.08 



Huckleberries, n 7 to 9 



Apples, per bbl., sound 1.50 to 2.00 



ti inferior, per bbl 75 to 1.00 



Pears, Bartletts, State, per bbl. 3 50 to 3. 75 



„ u Southern, „ . 3.00 to 3.50 



„ per half bbl.. '. . 1.50 to 1.75 



I. other varieties, per bbl 2.00 to 2.50 



• Watermelons, per hundred, large 14.00 to 16.00 



medium 10.00 to 12 00 



Canteloupes, per crate 1.00 to 1 25 



11 per basket. 50 to GO 



Nutmeg Melons, per bbl 1 25 to 1 .75 



Plums, per small basket 25 to 35 



II per large basket 50 to 75 



Prunes, per basket to 



Peaches, Maryland and Delawares, yellow fancy, per basket 75 to 1.00 



11 II M red, per basket 50 to 65 



M Jersey, yellow, per basket 50 to 60 



red, „ .. 30 to 45 



II Early varieties, n 25 to 30 



II State Crawfords n to 



II Canadian, ,1 60 to 70 



Grapes, River, per case 1.50 to 1.60 



II large, per basket 35 to 40 



II small, II 20 to 25 



CROP PROSPECTS. 



The yield of apples will this year probably be light, so far as Ontario is concerned, 

 lighter even than last year. The quality of the fruit is, however, very fair, and the sample 

 generally well shaped and free from blemishes. Harvest apples have yielded somewhat 

 better than the later varieties. Pears are also a light yield. The causes of the deficiency 

 are stated to be frosts at the time of blossoming, and the general drouth. The trees are 

 stated to have blossomed well, but even where the young fruit had formed it afterwards 

 fell off, in some instances on account of insufficient moisture. There has been a fairly good 

 yield of other tree fruits. Cherries have been unusually abundant. Plum trees are well 

 loaded with fruit, but their number has now been so greatly diminished by the black-knot 

 scourge that the yield of fruit cannot be a large one. Grapes and peaches were slightly 

 injured by late frosts, but the yield of both is good. Small fruits have been very plentiful 

 almost everywhere, but least so in the Lake Erie district. Raspberries were unusually 

 plentiful in some of the more northern counties. Strawberries yielded fairly well, but the 

 fruit was rather undersized. On the Niagara peninsula there has been a good yield of all 

 varieties. Plums are yielding well, and so are peaches, with the exception, perhaps, of 

 Crawfords. 0rapes will also yield well, and both peaches and grapes are pretty free from 

 blight or mildew. 



— Bulletin <?/, Ontario Bureau of Industrieu, 1891. 



