THE EXPORT OF TENDER ERUITS. 



ter scheme and decided to place one 

 wharehouse at Grimsby, providing grow- 

 ers there would agree to provide the 

 necessary fruit to make up one carload 

 a week, and buy over the warehouse, 

 provided the experiment proves a suc- 

 cess. 



Nine prominent growers of peaches, 

 years, grapes, tomatoes, etc., agreed tp 

 the scheme, and on the yth of September 

 the first shipment was made, consisting 

 of Bartlett pears, Crawford peaches and 

 grapes, for Covent Garden, London, 

 England. 



Our frontispiece shows these nine 

 shippers loading the first car of these 

 fruits, and a corner of the warehouse. 



In all seventeen carloads of our 

 choice varieties were sent forward, the 

 last car leaving on the 12th of October, 

 mostly loaded with grapes. The two 

 markets chosen were London and Glas- 

 gow. The result of the season's experi- 

 ment has been of great value, although 

 not without considerable loss at the first 

 shipments It has been proved that our 

 Canadian Crawfords and Bartlett pears 

 are just what the trade wants in England 

 being identical with the favorite Eng- 

 lish pear Williams known in France as 

 Bonchretien. Some half cases containing 

 about 6 dozen each of this pear sent 

 over on the steamer Georgia, arrived in 

 excellent condition and sold about Oct. 

 ist for $2.30 per half case, or the equiva- 

 lent of about §15.00 per barrel! This is 

 sufficient to prove the market for such 

 goods, especially for well-grown samples ; 

 while on the other hand, it has been 

 proved that a second grade cannot be 

 exported without loss. The first ship- 

 ments arrived in an over ripe condition. 

 This was not the fault of the growers, 

 for the fruit was gathered very green, nor 

 of the packing, as the papers state ; for 

 if the fruit men of Southern Ontario do 

 not understand packing fruit, after a life- 



experience, it is passing strange ; but of 

 the temperature in transport, which was 

 from 40" 1048° F.— altogether too high- 

 to carry such tender fruits withou^ 

 change of condition. For this reasori 

 the Crawford peaches were over ripe, 

 and unsalable, and the Bartlett pears 

 were also over ripe. For these fruits the 

 average temperature in the refrigeratoiS; 

 should be between 33° and 35°. ' 



The first packages used (see Fig. 1253) 

 were too large for peaches and pears, 

 and too expensive, being bushel cases, 

 each containing eight wooden trays, in 

 which it was very difficult to pack fruit 

 closely, so that it would not move about 

 when shaken. Toward the latter part of 

 the season a half case holding about six 

 dozen pears, was adopted, which proved 

 much more satisfactory, for while a case 

 of Bartlett pears sold for 15 , a halfcase 

 at the same sale brought 9 7. The tem- 

 perature also of the later shipments was 

 held somewhat lower, averaging about 

 38°. If this can be still further reduced 

 perfect success will result. It will no 

 doubt interest our readers to see some 

 extracts from the account sales showing 

 some of the lowest and some of the 

 highest prices obtained for our fruit, viz : 



Covent Garden, London, Oct. 21 — 

 (ex " Hurona," sold by Garcia Jacobs 

 & Co.) 



Duchess pears, §1.04 to $2 1 9 per bushel case 

 \y Aiij3u \.?,\ 



Louise .S.90 



Howell 54 cts. to 'iOT 



Bartlett '•! cts. to 3 00 



Early Crawford peaches, 



1. -2.5 to 2.44 

 Wager 1..58 " 



Centenuial 2.44 " 



Quackenbos plums 3.77 " 



I'lunis (other var'es )60 to l.lo " 



Tomatoes 1.28 to 1.71 " 



Rogers grapes 97 per case 45 lbs. 



Delaware " 55 " 



Concord " 24c. to 74 



Wordcn " 2.5c. to 36 " 



Niagara " 12c. to 47 " 



.■\8soited " 22c. to 2.fi.S •' 



