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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



January, 1910 



Shipping Peaches to England 



In recent years a tew attempts have been 

 made by Ontario fruit growers to place 

 peaches upon the British markets in good 

 condition and to sell them tUere with a 

 profit, but not until the past season did 

 the government enter into the proposition. 

 The fruit branch of the Ontario Department 

 of Agriculture sent 25 cases to London. 

 Each peach was wrapped in paper and 

 surrounded with cotton batting. The 

 peaches were in fair condition on arrival, 

 despite the fact that they were not shipped 

 in cold storage, from the starting point, 

 St. Catharines, to Quebec, that there was 

 no cold storage from Liverpool to London, 

 and that the fruit was delayed a few days 

 at Liverpool before being shipped to Lon- 

 don. Reports from various Old Country 

 sources on the condition of the fruit and 

 on the feasibility of working up a market 

 there for peaches, have been received. Ex- 

 tracts from some of them are as follows: 



Harrod's, London: "Packing will have 

 to be different before Ontario peaches can 

 be sold in London. Did not think much 

 of them." . „ T J 



Army & Navy, Victoria St., London: 



FOR SALE AND WANTED 



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 serted at rate of two cents a word for each 

 insertion, each figure, sign or single letter 

 to count as one word, minlmun cost, 25 

 cents, strictly cash in advance^ 



WANTED— A capable man, married preferred, 

 to take charge of a Nursery and Fruit Farm 

 in the Province of Quebec. Must understand 

 the propagation and cultivation of Nursery 

 Stock and be qualified to manage successfully 

 large and email fruit orchards. An excellent 

 opportunity for the right man. Apply stating 

 age, experience, salary expected, etc., to 0. S. 

 Clark, Box 278, Montreal. 



"Very good when opened; flavor fine. 

 Could dispose of them easily if they came 

 in better shape. They must be packed 

 more carefully. Want to know the cost 

 of peaches laid down here." 



VVhitfley s, London : "Packing is. not good. 

 Could sell them if packed like the French 

 or African peaches. If this peach could be 

 put on the English market at 2}^d. could 

 sell lots of them." 



Fortune & Mason, Piccadilly, London : 

 "On exhibition three days. Sold some at 

 six pence each. Flavor was fine. Packing 

 is bad. Recommend them being shipped 

 in small boxes, single tier." 



Canadian Pacific Railway, London: "Had 

 several enquiries as to whether they were 

 tvax or real. Color very much admired." 



Grand Trunk Railway, London : "All went 

 bad between Saturday night and Monday 

 morning. Several people admired them in 

 the window on Saturday." 

 ..Journal o/ Horticulture, London: "Fruit 

 is large, exquisite in flavor and rich in 

 color and bloom. Arrived in splendid con- 

 dition." 



Gardeners' Chronicle, London: "Peaches 

 airived in very satisfactory condition. Un- 

 less they can be placed on the market at 

 a cheaper rate than 6d., each they will 

 scarcely succeed in competing with outdoor 

 peaches grown in this country." 



Fruii Grower and Fruiterer, London : 

 "Ontario fruits have established an excel- 

 lent reputation but that peaches in such 

 quality as those which are row on show, 

 and of which the markets are promised an 

 ample supply in due course, would ever be 

 posible has not, we think, been altogether 

 appreciated." 



London Daily Mail : "Fruit is large, 

 richly colored and of an exquisite flavor." 



London Times : "The fruit, although not 

 specially packed arrived in good condi- 

 tion." 



"While some of the reports are not very 

 very flattering," writes Mr. P. W. Uodgetts 

 chief of -the fruit branch, Toronto, "still 

 they give sufficient encouragement for us 

 to believe that certain of our varieties 

 of peaches can be landed in Great Britain, 

 and sell at a nice profit to the growers 

 here. If South Africa can land this fruit 

 in Great Britain in good condition I see no 

 reason why our Ontario peaches should 

 not, with a handicap of only half the time, 

 arrive in just as good shape. 



"I have received some correspondence 

 from the agent of the Dominion Express 

 Company in which is shown that to get 

 a refrigerator service from Liverpool to 

 London, payment would liave to be made 

 on 30 cwt., which is the minimum for re- 

 frigerator cars there. In addition the 

 cost of icing, which amounts to about 15 

 shillings, has to be borne by the shipper. 

 At the same time the agent there points 

 out that it is hardly necessary to send 

 peaches forward in refrigerator cars in 

 Great Britain, at the time of year, when 

 such goods would go forward." 



Shipments of peaches were sent to Eng- 

 land also by the Biggs Fruit and Produce 

 Co., Burlington, Ont., and by Mr. Hamilton 

 Fleming, Grimsby, Ont. Mr. Fleming's 

 peaches did not arrive in good condition. 

 Further reference to these experimental 

 shipments of peaches will be made in next 

 issue, together with some notes on packing 

 and packages, made by Mr. W. A. Mac- 

 Kinnon, Canadian Trade Commissioner, 

 Birmingham, in one of his reports to the 

 Department of Trade and Commerce at 

 Ottawa. 



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