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days. Some are then packed in barrels with perfectly dry sand, 

 gome iti buckwheat, and others are put in barrels without any thing 

 with them. They are tlien taken on a sled, or in the box of a wagon, 

 hung with eliptic springs, to a boat on the North river, and thence to 

 the vessel which takes them to London. In all these transhipments, 

 the barrels are never rolled, jolted, or jarred, so that the apples es- 

 cape bruising, and the consequence is, they arrive in London in far 

 beiter order than they are in general, when brought to the New-York 

 market. 



These precautions in shipping apples, agree perfectly with some 

 facts 1 obtained irom Mr. Serrell of the American Institute, formerly 

 engaged as a managing ship owner in London, connected with the 

 fruit trade. In drawing charter parties for a vessel to take fresh 

 fruits from Spain and Portugal to London,a special clause is inserted that 

 the boxes of oranges shall be hoisted into the vessel, by the tackle being 

 attached to each j and that the boxes also are to be stowed on their 

 bottoms, and never on their sides or ends. On landing in London, 

 the same care is taken in hoisting them out of the vessel. The boxes 

 are then placed on the heads of men known as fruit porters, and by 

 them carried to the warehouse, where they are examined and assort- 

 ed, and then sent out in the same manner, to the places of consump- 

 tion. The same precautions are used in taking the oranges from the 

 garden to the shore, from the shore to the lighter, and from the lighter 

 to the vessel. 



The Boston fruit dealers, when shipping cranberries to New Or- 

 leans or Europe, assort them by letting them run over a platform 

 slightly inclined. Only the perfect fruit runs over the whole length 

 of the platform, the rotten and bruised fruit lodge going down, and 

 are thrown away. The choice fruit is then put in tight barrels, and 

 when headed up, filled with water. The fruit will arrive at its des- 

 tination in perfect order, and has frequently been sold in England 

 and France, at $20 per barrel. 



CHOICE FRUIT. 



A farmer finds few things in life more diflficult and perplexing 

 than to make his selection of fruit trees from a nursery containing 

 several hundred varieties of fruit. .To obviate this difficulty, I pro- 

 pose giving a list and short description of such as will give satisfac- 

 tion to purchasers. I give the name best known in italics, but 

 when there are several names for the same fruit, I give the synonymes 

 in roman characters. 



Apples. 



Early Harvest, Prince's Yellow Harvest, July Pippin — Fruit me 

 dium size; bright straw color; flavor fine; ripe in July and August. 



Early Red Juneating, Red Margaret, Strawberry. — Rather smallj 

 very rich and fine — ripe in August. 



