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Apple and Other Fruits In the Argentine RepubUc 



By Robert N. Justo, of the Argentine Republic, a student of the Oregon Agricultural College, Department of Horticulture, under Prof. C. I. Lewis 



BUENOS AIRES, the metropolis of 

 southernmost of South American 

 Republics, is a seaport, a river 

 town and the nucleus and terminus of 

 many great railroad systems making 

 a giant spider web on the map of the 

 surrounding territory; it is an excellent 

 collecting and distributing center, and 

 its markets are a ready index to the 

 capacity of the country with which it 

 communicates. From the fertile oasis- 

 like province of Tucuman there drift in 

 at nearly all times of the year small 

 quantities of tropical fruits such as 

 avocados, pineapples and chirimoyas. 

 Boatloads of oranges of varying quali- 

 ties come down from Paraguay, and 



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they are undoubtedly the cheapest and 

 most plentiful fiuits at all times of the 

 year. The true navel orange is brought 

 at times from its original home, Bahia, 

 on the coast of Brazil, by steamers en 

 route from North America or Europe. 

 In the same manner the banana is 

 brought by vessels touching at the 

 great coffee port of Santos in Southern 

 Brazil, where it is grown in the imme- 

 diate vicinity of the city. Lemons come 

 mostly from Italy, while Spain sends 

 both lemons and oranges. One tropical 

 or sub-tropical fruit now so common 

 in this country, the grapefruit or 

 pomelo, is entirely unknown. The 

 earlier varieties of temperate fruits 

 come from the Banda Oriental, the 

 eastern shore or Republica Oriental, as 

 Uruguay is generally known in Argen- 

 tina. This is especially true of the 

 strawberry, which is less grown on the 

 western side of the Plata, and of which 

 the few seen in the market are high 

 Ijriced and of poor or medium quality. 

 The bush fruits do not thrive in the 

 warm climate of that region and are 

 all practically unknown. During the 

 summer months the gardens and farms 

 of the vicinity of the capital and of the 

 numerous country towns within a 

 radius of seventy-five miles contribute 

 handsomely to the fruit supply of the 

 market. Peaches, apricots, plums, nec- 

 tarines, cherries, figs, loquats, medlars, 

 pears, (luinces and apples make up the 

 list that comes from that neighborhood. 

 The islands of the lower Parana, one 

 of the greatest rivers that go to form 

 the Plata, near the populous summer 

 resort of the Tigre, constitute the rich- 

 est fruit-growing region near the City 

 of Buenos Aires. Mendoza, situated 800 

 miles inland at the base of the Andes, 

 constitutes another big factor in sup- 

 plying markets of the capital. Among 

 imported temperate fruits one sees in 

 season beautiful specimens of An- 

 gouleme pears from France, or sum- 

 mer apples from both France and 

 Portugal, grapes and boxed Mazzard 

 cherries from the Iberian peninsula, 

 and apples from Uruguay, Chile, New 

 Zealand and last, but not least impor- 

 taiil, both apples and pears from the 

 United States. 



Grapes and peaches are the cheapest 

 and most plentiful of the Argentine- 

 grown fruits. Better table grapes of 

 the vinifera varieties can be bought in 

 Buenos Aires than are to be found in 

 the cities of Eastern United States. 

 They are all shipped from the rich irri- 

 gated wine-producing region of Men- 

 doza. The best varieties retail at 

 about seven cents per pound in Buenos 

 Aires, but are nearly given away in 

 their place of production. They consti- 

 tute a sort of side line to the wine 

 industry, but still have yielded enor- 

 mous profits to some growers. The 

 production of wine alone amounts to 

 about one million gallons annually, or 

 about twice that of California or Chile. 

 In this industry enormous sums have 

 been made until very recently, but it 

 is only fair to say to those that might 

 be interested that the industry at the 

 present time is going through a crisis, 

 due principally to overproduction of 

 cheap wines. The prices for grapes 

 delivered at the wine press, posted for 

 the season of 191,5, were about one-half 

 to one cent per pound, respectively, for 

 Mendoza and the newer region of Rio 

 Negro in the south. The growing of 

 the Labrusca type of grape of our East- 

 ern States is carried on to some extent 

 also in Eastern Argentina, where the 

 moister climate is not suited for the 

 growing of the "vinifera" varieties, but 

 there also the larger part of the product 

 is employed in the making of wine. 

 The experiment of placing some of the 

 best shipping varieties of table grapes 

 from Mendoza in the markets of New 

 York has been successfully tried. As 

 the seasons in Mendoza and California 

 are the reverse of one another this feat 

 would w'ork both ways, enabling the 

 California grower and commission mer- 

 chant to ship to Argentina in the same 

 manner as the Spaniards already ship 

 the conuuon Malaga grape to all parts 

 of South America. In the same man- 

 ner also a better (luality of Mazzard 

 cherry could be shipped from our 

 Pacific States than what now comes 

 from Europe. Peaches come from the 

 frost-free lands on the Islands of 

 Parana near Tigre from Mendoza and 

 San Juan and from the many orchards 



