This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V29", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
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.
 
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