APPLE GROWING 



and profitable sale. Great attention is paid to 

 appearance and comparatively little to quality. 

 Fruit shipped to a wholesale market must be 

 packed in a standard package, which is not re- 

 turned, but goes with the fruit, and must be 

 packed so as to endure rough treatment. Out 

 of season fruit Is not in demand, but even the 

 general market sometimes has special prefer- 

 ences. 



Almost every market has favorite varieties 

 for which it is willing to pay a larger price 

 than other markets. Just as Boston wants 

 a brown egg and New York a white one, so 

 these and other cities have their favorite vari- 

 eties of apples. Some markets prefer a red 

 apple, others a green one, although the former 

 Is most generally popular. In the mining and 

 manufacturing towns working people want 

 smaller green apples, or " seconds," because 

 they are cheaper. Many second-class hotels 

 prefer small apples. If they are well colored, as 

 they go farther. The fashionable restaurant 

 and the fruit stand are the markets for large, 

 perfect, and highly colored specimens. House- 

 wives demand cooking apples like Greenings, 

 hotels want a good out-of-hand apple like the 

 Mcintosh, while private families have their 

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