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Immense quantities of apples wereTshipped 
abroad last season.’ |The prices realized were 
not satisfactory; [oftentimes the charges for 
freight and storage consumed all the profits. 
The great apple crop of last year clearly 
showed that in such times of plenty careful 
packiug and sorting must be relied upon to 
bring out the best prices. lu such times the 
best specimens always find the first sale, while 
the inferior lots can hardly be given away. 
With low prices, ordinary customers can af¬ 
ford to be fastidious, and they enjoy their 
brief moment of authority to the utmost. 
The low prices for apples here seriously 
affects the trade in dried fruits. Dried 
apples are from one-and-one-half cent to two 
cents cheaper per pound than in previous 
years, and other dried fruits are correspond¬ 
ingly lower. If farmers have reason to regret 
this state of affairs, city people have every 
reason to be grateful. Thousands of people 
are enjoying an abundance of fruit this year, 
that hardly knew what it meant before. 
Apple sauce and apple puddings bold an hon¬ 
orable place on many a boarding-house table, 
that had previously been guiltless of such 
healthful fare. One hears little of the dried 
apple pies and sauces so common upon the 
tables of the poor in years of high prices. 
Many city housekeepers bought their supply 
of apples and vegetables directly from some 
friend or relative in the country. This prac¬ 
tice appears to be growing in favor. It would 
doubtless interfere seriously with the business 
of the produce merchant, if good storage could 
be secured. It would be greatly to the advan¬ 
tage of the farmer if city houses could be 
built with some better system of storage, 
where a Winter's supply of vegetables and 
fruit could be kept in fair condition. 
The retail fruit trade in this city is enor¬ 
mous. It is estimated that over 500 barrels 
of apples are sold every pleasant day from the 
fruit stands alone. Add to this the great 
quantities of bananas and oranges disposed 
of, and we see how much of the health of the 
city depends upon these humble places of 
business. Everybody patronizes them from 
the newsboy to the Wall St. banker. The 
average New Yorker is always in a hurry. 
These little stands, where he can buy and eat 
his fruit almost without stopping, suit him 
exactly. If they were abolished he would uot 
eat half so much. Red, medium-sized apples 
find the best sale, for eating purposes, in this 
market. People distrust a very large apple 
or a very small one. The first they consider 
too apt to be coarse and tasteless, and the 
other is too small for a fan- bite. The sharp¬ 
est dealers select a medium-sized, strongly 
acid apple, and thus retain their regular cus¬ 
tomers. A barrel of apples sold on one of 
these stands brings about $12, The retail 
prices seldom vary from year to year, regaixi- 
less of the wholesale price. Apples are always 
about the same size, and the prices seem to be 
fixed at one cent apiece, two for five cents, or 
three for five cents, according to size. No 
wonder some of these dealers grow rich at the 
business. 
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screw vise. The power 
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iron bolt passes through the roller lengthwise, 
hut uot quite at its center. The hole should lx 
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Objectionable and reasonable changes of 
variety; names of fruits; examples. 
I have noticed with much surprise that in 
the recent exhibitions of fruits of the Mass¬ 
achusetts Horticultural Society, our old aud 
well-known pears have been shown under en¬ 
tirely new names. For instance, that fine 
pear, the Doyenne du Comice (the Doyenne of 
the Committee), is called the “Commice;” the 
Duchess d'Angoulfune, the ‘‘Duchess,” and 
there were similar changes all round. Boston 
is celebrated for its notions, and many of them 
1 believe to be mighty good ones—some are 
indifferent—and occasionally some of them 
are bad. 
Regarding this new notion, I had intended 
to notice it before. Our good aud worthy 
President, in his address at the late meeting 
of the American Pomologiesl Society, at 
Grand Rapids, made some suggestions as to 
the ridiculousness of some of the names given 
to fruits by the old cultivators, and the really 
nonsensical, meaningless and often uucouth 
and foolish ones of more recent fruit growers, 
such, for instance, as Big Bob, Old John Brown 
aud Wizard of the North, Strawberries ; Iron- 
Clad and Wild Goose Plums; Rancocas Rasp¬ 
berry; Wilson Junior Blackberry; Upper 
Crust Pear, etc. Here, indeed, his suggestions 
were very timely and valuable, and I hope 
important enough to prevent the further ap¬ 
plication of such absurd titles to good fruit. 
But I did not suppose he intended, now in his 
ripe old age, to alter old names and undo what 
he has for many years, as President of the 
American Pomologieal Society, devoted time 
and thought to accomplish—the improvement 
of the nomenclature of our fruits—and aided, 
so energetically, in detecting synonyms with 
which our catalogues were so full some few 
years ago, and which only perplexed aud wor¬ 
ried every one interested in fruit culture. 
But now, after all the labor performed by 
the committee especially appointed to revise 
the names of fruits, and systematize and pub¬ 
lish them in the Transactions of the American 
Pomologieal Society, the work has to lie gone 
over again. Those who looked upon the So¬ 
ciety’s Report as some authority for names, 
now find they have to begin anew. That 
favorite old pear, which the late A. J. Down¬ 
ing thought identical with Beurrd Bose, the 
Paradise D’Automne, is now only the “Para¬ 
dise;” the Hovey’s Seedling Strawlxny is 
only the “Hovey,” and so on, depriving the 
enthusiastic cultivator of the honor of produc¬ 
ing perhaps the best fruit of its kind. Any¬ 
body can raise a Hovey Strawberry, if he so 
chooses to call it, but anybody cannot raise 
Hovey’s Seedling. Sir Thomas Andrew 
Knight raised a cherry which he called 
Knight’s Early Black, because there was an 
old Early Black, and he was ambitious (mo¬ 
dest as lie always was) to have his name con 
nected with it; it is now “Early Black;” and, 
as regards that superlative pear before re¬ 
ferred to, the DoyenmS du Comice, how 
ridiculous to write “Commice;” the pear hav¬ 
ing been christened by a committee of the 
Horticultural Society of Angers. France, who 
first decided upon its merits, the “Doyemte of 
the Committee,” being in form, smoothness 
and beauty of skin, fineness of flesh aud de- 
Iiciousness of flavor, similar to the old and 
well known White Doyennd, in its palmy 
days, the typo of all the numerous Doyennes 
that have since been produced. “Commice” 
is a word unknown in any language and more 
ridiculous aud unmeaning than even Big Bob, 
and the name is a blot upon tbe reputation of 
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inches long for the saw to play in, from the 
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block B, saw in five-eighths of an inch, and 
split out to admit the boards A A, and bolt 
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admit a bolt (H) 8'..f inches long. On this 
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inch thick, then an iron washer, then the 
handle (D, 44 inches long) hung in the center 
of the stick; another washer and another 
block of wood, D being a round stick two 
inches in diameter, flattened ou each side to 
five-eight inch in thickness at one end. F is a 
tapering stick 4x1 : .< inches at one end, two 
inches square at the other, in which is an 
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of an inch wide, to admit the handle D. 
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save the strain on the two screws fastening 
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farm {Topics. 
MARKET THOUGHTS. 
How is the apple market! Farmers who 
have been bolding their fruit for better prices 
are anxiously asking the question. The mar¬ 
ket has shown little signs of improvement 
thus far. The prices for the past six years are 
given below. The figures given are the prices 
quoted for best Greenings on the first of each 
month. 
.Tan. 
Feb. 
March. 
April. 
1885 
$2.25 
$8.25 
$8.00 
$8.25 
1881 
4.00 
0.50 
8.75 
4.00 
mi 
8.75 
4.00 
4.50 
5.00 
1882 
8.75 
8.50 
3.75 
3.75 
1881 
1.75 
1.02 
1.50 
1.87 
1880 
2.50 
2.75 
3.50 
8.50 
The quotations for February 1, 1886, were 
$2.25 for best Greenings, with Baldwins 25 
cents cheaper. Towards the end of the season 
red apples sell the best. After March Bald¬ 
wins are always quoted at 25 to 50 cents higher. 
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