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6. They always sell. 



7. They cook well before they are ripe. 



8. They cook well when ripe. 



9. They are the best for drying purposes. 



10. There is more money in them than in any other variety. 



The Willow and Rome Beauty follow it. The Jonathan and Redstreak 

 are of the best also. Only one exception among apples can be noted— the 

 Huntsman. Taking these points, it will not be hard to tell the market fruits 

 of Kansas City. 



The i)ear must have some of tliese choice characteristics to be a market 

 fruit of our city. The Bartlett tills these wants, especially if they are red 

 cheeked, as many are on the south side. The Flemish Beauty and Howell 

 are choice for this market, as also is the Buerre d'Anjou and Sheldon. The 

 market of our city demands a highly colored, large size and beautiful pear. 

 The Bartlett is so well known everywhere that it is hard to dispossess it of 

 its advantage. A finely colored, large California pear will sell for more than 

 our best pears, although deficient in flavor. Size and beauty sell it. 



The peach is the same as with the apple. Quality has very little to do with 

 the sale unless it be to families and those who know the variety and call for 

 it. If you do not think so, just try to sell a white peach which has a clear 

 skin without a particle of color to it, at the same time offer one much inferior 

 in quality, but beautifully marked and colored, and you will soon find what 

 the market demands. 



For home use and among those who will believe you when you tell him a 

 peach is of excellent quality, you. can easily sell some of the poorly colored 

 peaches; but for market in general and where large quantities are wanted 

 by shippers, you can not teach them. 



The Amsden peach never would have had the sale it did if it were not for 

 the bright red cheek. S ly what you will, Kansas City would never have 

 bought those poor flavored peaches had it not been for the attraction to the 

 eye. Try a bright Crawford Late peach and a Ward's Late, or even a Smock 

 and very soon our market will make a distinction. 



Ask any fruit grower and he will tell you that the Smock lacks color to 

 sell well ; that the Heath cling would and does bring double when you select 

 those specimens that have a beautiful red cheek. The eye must be pleased 

 as well as the palate. The mirket peaches and the ones for money here, are 

 Amsden, Early York, Mt. Rose, Crawford Early, Old Mixon, Crawford Late, 

 Smock, Salaway, Heath. 



The plum, apricot and nectarine are nothing with us for money, except 

 the Wild Goose and Weaver plum, which are very profitable and in good de- 

 mand. 



The grape would seem to us to be the exception to the rule, if there should 

 be one, for it seems that our market demands a white grape and one without 

 color, no matter if it is poor. A white or flesh colored grape seems to at- 

 tract the eye more than one of the most beautiful of purjile or black grapes, 



