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flavor is injured and the refrigerated pear is not a gastro- 

 nomic success. In November, I don't want a Bartlett ; 

 it is a hot weather pear. In that month give me a 

 Lawrence, and it keeps without cold storage. The pears 

 are packed in the cold-house by rule, and if care is not 

 taken, the top layer will decay ; the hot air ascending. 

 As soon as removed from the refrigerator the pear must 

 be shipped and sold. They don't stand up well. As a 

 rule, the boxes, to make sure, after having been taken 

 from the refrigerator, must be opened and culled over. 

 There is more or less average loss from decay. 

 MARKETING THE CROP. 

 Double extra pears should be packed in one-third 

 crates with a handle of rope or leather at one end, and 

 each pear wrapped in tissue paper. The extra care will 

 well pay the grower. Market extras in the regulation 

 peach baskets with covers, as the best package now 

 obtainable. We want a new package for extra and 

 double-extra pears made something like a grape basket 

 with a handle. Any display of taste and refinement 

 here, will come back with large returns. The new 

 fruit package, the ripe fruit carrier, I have hopes of, 

 although I have not yet examined it. It will hold about 

 one hundred large peaches or pears, each wrapped in 

 tissue paper and packed in its own individual apartment. 

 I think this is the package Mr. Cochran made his suc- 

 cessful shipment of peaches to Europe in, last year, and 

 it doubtless will carry ripe pears equally well. 



