THE EXPORT OF PEACHES. 



]T seems well proven that we cannot 



export the Early Crawford peach 



i with any certainty of success. One 



lot that was safely landed sold for 



$3.75 per bushel and clearly showed 



safe carriage. Not only is each peach 

 being wrapped with cotton batting, but 

 it is laid on a cushion of the same, and 

 a pad of this material separates each 

 row of fruit, as shown in our illustration. 



Fig. 1677.— Tray for Peaches. 



that our peaches would bring a long 

 price in England, if only they could be 

 landed in good condition, for the qua- 

 lity is most excellent and the color is 

 exquisite. But for the most part this 

 peach has arrived in a soft and worth- 

 less condition, and brought loss upon 

 the shippers. The package first used 

 was very clumsy and very expensive, 

 but of course if it were successful we 

 could stand the cost. It was a box holding 

 a little more than a bushel, having 8 trays, 

 each of which contained one layer of 

 fruit, and had to have a separate cover 

 nailed on it. The peaches were each 

 wrapped in tissue paper and tightly 

 packed. The labor of packing in this 

 way was most wearisome. This season 

 the same case is being used, but still 

 greater care is being taken to ensure 



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(Fig. 1677). Then a cushion covers the 

 whole, so that there is no possibility of 

 bruising, and if carried at a temperature 

 of 36 F., we see no possibility of failure 

 even with the Early Crawford. 



Two trays of them so packed were 

 left over at our cold storage building 

 at Grimsby, and three weeks later opened 

 at the Town Hall, at our Horticultural 

 Society Exhibition, and although of this 

 tender variety, they were in perfect con- 

 dition, with no perceptible change since 

 packing. 



The surest success in exporting peaches 

 will come about by the use of some bet- 

 ter shipper than the Early Crawford, and 

 we believe that in the Elberta we have 

 found such a peach. It is about as 

 large as the Early Crawford, longer and 

 flatter lengthwise, not quite equal in 

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