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to the young orchards, planted by new settlers, 

 coming into bearing. Mr. Johnston s estimate is, 

 that in five years from this time, Sussex county will 

 send millions of baskets to market. The strawberry 

 culture is just beginning on a large scale. But in 

 the common wild blackberry trade, the amount has 

 been so great as to be a most important item in the 

 cash account of every railroad in the State. Sussex 

 county has poured these things into Philadelphia 

 by tens of thousands of bucketfuls, the railroads 

 having opened a market for what formerly perished 

 in the fields. At every railroad station I saw the 

 platform covered with hundreds of buckets of these 

 berries, sometimes a thousand in one place, waiting 

 for the train, while men, women, and children, were 

 constantly bringing in additions to the huge supply. 

 There were buyers from the city who were taking 

 all that came, paying fifty cents per bucket of about 

 eight quarts. In less than twenty-four hours, the 

 great bulk of this supply would be eaten up by the 

 people of Philadelphia. 



It will be a subject of wonder with many as to 

 what becomes of this vast supply of light and ex 

 tremely perishable fruit. The history of a single 

 establishment will go far to remove it. A house in 

 Philadelphia, Messrs. Aldrich and Yerkes, has been 

 several years engaged in the business of canning 

 and preserving fruit. This firm occupies three 

 large five-story warehouses in Letitia street, in which 

 they manufacture pickles, jellies, marmalade, cham 

 paign cider, and put up great quantities of tomatoes, 

 strawberries, and blackberries, in cans. These va- 



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