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BETTER FRUIT 



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and gardens existing near the City of 

 Buenos Aires on the cultivated prairie 

 land of the neighboring towns. In both 

 Tigre and Mendoza there are large can- 

 neries. The majority of the named 

 varieties of peaches are of European 

 origin, althou.^h there are varieties 

 from the United States, especially 

 among the early-ripening kinds. It is 

 in connection with the gathering, pack- 

 ing and picking of peaches that some of 

 the marketing methods in vogue in 

 Argentina can be best observed. Many 

 growers, especially those of Mendoza, 

 do their own gathering and packing, 

 and ship direct to the canneries or 

 commission men, but in the neighbor- 

 hood of Buenos Aires, the commission 

 men send out agents, who buy up the 

 crops before ripening them, during the 

 season, about January to March, in- 

 clusive, send out a foreman, who lives 

 on the place during that time, engages 

 a few peons and attends to all picking, 

 packing and shipping. 



The absence of suitable materials for 

 the manufacture of boxes and crates 

 has given rise to the use of peculiar 

 receptacles and packing methods. The 

 basket willow is easily and cheaply 

 grown in the Islands of Parana and 

 other low and moist lands in Eastern 

 Argentina, and packers and shippers 

 are unanimous in proclaiming the 

 wicker basket far superior to any kind 

 of crate. The price of a double basket 

 is about fifty cents and is returned 

 when empty and used again for three 

 or four years. Railroads give reduced 

 rates on fruits, usually half of the rate 

 on general merchandise, or as low as 

 one-fifth of the usual tariff, returning 

 the empty baskets either at the same 

 reduced rate or entirely free. 



One fruit largely produced in Argen- 

 tina of which all South Americans seem 

 very fond, but which naturally is not 

 much found in the market in the fresh 

 state, is the quince. It is remarkable 

 how well it is adapted to the soil and 

 climate; apparently little effort is re- 

 quired to grow it. Especially is that 

 true in the Islands of Tigre, where the 

 quince has evidently found remarkably 

 favorable conditions for growth, having 

 escaped from cultivation in many 

 places, and are able to battle success- 

 fully with the native vegetation and 

 yielding large c|uantities of fruit. It 

 has done the same on the Islands of 

 the lower Rio Negro in the desert 

 country around Viedma, where the 

 roots find plenty of water near the 

 river banks. The favorite and ever- 

 present dessert on all South American 

 tables consists of cheese and a thick, 

 stiff marmalade, both of which are cut 

 and served in the same manner, and 

 usually without the addition of bread 

 and pastry. This marmalade, put up in 

 flat tins of convenient sizes and made 

 from ([uince, is known in the Spanish- 

 speaking countries as "dulcc de mem- 

 brillo," or sweet of quince, and in 

 Brazil as marnielade, from marmelo, 

 meaning quince, although there the 

 guaibade, made from guavas, is far 

 more conmion and popular. 



In no part of Latin America has the 

 sale of fresh fruit as an industry 

 attained tiie development that it has in 



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