PEACH AND THE PEAR. 3O9 



Ship primes in the regulation fruit crate of the 

 Peninsula. Pears in transit must be kept out of the 

 reach of thieves and vandals, and for this reason the 

 crate is better than the open basket for the inferior 

 qualities. Sell through the Delaware Fruit Exchange, 

 if possible. Next, sell at your fruit house, or at your 

 Rail Road Station. If unable to do either of these 

 things, ship to the best market you can hear of Never 

 ship a car load or large quantities at once. The market 

 is sensitive as to pears, and a car load coming at once 

 from the Peninsula, especially, to even a large city, will 

 dull its edge. Ship, say, from twenty-five to fifty baskets 

 or crates every two or three days. I am speaking now 

 of late pears. When we are shipping early pears, we 

 must watch the market, and, by all means, get them in 

 early, before Peninsula peaches and northern pears. 



EVAPORATING THE PEAR. 



The process of evaporating is the same for all fruits, 

 and for its description I refer the reader to the proper 

 heading in the part of this book, devoted to the peach. 



The market for evaporated pears has, as yet, to be 

 made, but they form such a delicious and wholesome 

 article of diet, that there can be no doubt of their 

 speedy popularity, when thrown on the market in large 

 quantities. The Bartlett is, doubtless, the best of all 

 pears to evaporate. The Howell, the Duchess, (when 



