No less than 15,000 barrels of apples were received in Covent Garden market, London, during the week ending December 9th, 1886, and these were considered but the balance of a much larger quantity received during the week previous. These were all shipped from Canadian ports.

Few American kinds give satisfaction there; but the Mother Apple, a Massachusetts seedling, is everywhere esteemed.

We suppose figures must tell correct tales, and when the English tell us they paid us $3,500,000 for our apples last year we shut our eyes and are thankful.