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fifty cents per dozen, while in October 

 of that same year Beurre Dix brought 

 seventy-five cents a dozen, and in No- 

 vember our thrifty ancestors paid, for 

 St. Germain, fifty cents to a dollar per 

 dozen. These figures are but typical; 

 even higher quotations might be cited. 



On the other hand, if little Nehe- 

 miah wanted an orange, his father 

 could have bought, on February 20, 

 1835, one hundred sour oranges for 

 one dollar or the very best for a dol- 

 lar and a half, or a hundred lemons 

 for between seventy-five cents and a 

 dollar, while a pineapple would have 

 cost between twenty-five and fifty 

 cents. These were all imported. 

 Along in July the price was up to 

 three dollars for oranges and in No- 

 vember they were selling at thirty- 

 seven to sixty-two cents per dozen. 

 Then, with a falling off in quality, 

 they dropped again to from twenty-five 

 to thirty-seven and a half. In 1838 

 Sweet Havanas appear in the quota- 

 tions, the February prices for these 

 being fifty to seventy-five cents a 

 dozen, while "common" oranges were 

 bringing twenty-five to fifty. Ha- 

 vanas held their price pretty consist- 

 ently. Lemons could be bought, even 

 in summer months, for twenty-five 

 cents a dozen, often for less. 



Other fruits seem rather high in 

 price. For example, here are the quo- 

 tations for strawberries by the quart, 

 June 29, 1843: Methven Scarlet, twenty- 

 five cents; Hovey's Seedling, thirty- 

 seven to fifty; Keen's Seedling, twenty- 

 five to thirty-one. 



Here, selected at random, are quo- 

 tations on plums, for August 28, 1841: 

 Washington, thirty-seven cents per 

 quart, "White Gage, twenty-five; Green 

 Gage, twenty-five; "common," twelve 

 and a half, and for Damsons, a dollar 



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a peck. That same year raspberries 

 were selling at twenty to thiry-seven 

 cents a quart; blackberries were bring- 

 ing seventeen to twenty. 



Now as to apples: the average prices 

 in the period 1831 to 1840 were some- 

 what below those of recent years. 

 Sunn- three or four years ago Mr. H. 

 lication, worked out the average 

 wholesale prices of apples in New 

 Yoik from 1893 to 1913. Though 

 these figures are not strictly compar- 

 able with tbc Boston prices for the 

 earlier period, we have utilized some 

 of them in an interesting table or two. 

 Then, ;is now, Baldwin constituted the 

 B. Knapp, in a Cornell University pub- 

 bulk of the apple trade. In Table I. 



the average prices, month by month, 

 for the earlier and later periods are 

 compared: 



TABLE I.— AVERAGE PRICE OF BALDWIN 

 APPLES. 



1834-46 1893-1903 1903-13 



September $1.93 51.75 J2.08 



October 2.09 1.85 2.16 



November 2.2:, 2.39 



December 2.43 2.61 2.54 



January 2.:.T 2.75 2.80 



Pebruarj 2.::. 3.03 3.19 



March 2.89 3.15 3.40 



April 3.54 3.45 3.64 



May l.i I 3.56 l. H7 



June 5.00 3.57 4.03 



These figures show, for that part of 

 tlic season when trading is most ac- 

 tive, a fairly uniform advance in 

 price, though the falling off in May 

 and June is noteworthy. This may be 



