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Niagara grapes, but there was a good deal of iron about 

 the soil on which they were raised and the grapes had an 

 iron taste about them. These grapes came to London and 

 immediately sold on their appearance, but the next day 

 they came back and the money for them was refunded. 

 They were then sent to Glasco, hoping the Scotchman 

 would eat them, but they were not accepted, and the last I 

 knew of them they were piled up among the waste of a 

 certain commissionman waiting for the garbage man to 

 carry away. They are now shipping a better kind of 

 grape — the Catawba, which stands shipment well and is 

 better flavored. 



The plums shipped from this country always find favor, 

 as do also the oranges, and I believe the day is coming 

 when the California navel orange will bring the highest 

 price of any orange in the English market. Most of our 

 oranges now come from Spain and Italy, but they 

 do not compare in flavor and size with the California 

 orange. 



When customers have once proven a certain brand to 

 be reliable they insist upon having it, regardless of what 

 else the dealer has on hand. When you go before a class of 

 buyers, it is not a question of prices, but a question of 

 whether you have something fancy, and if you have, you can 

 get your own price, even to the two shillings for a peach. I 

 believe in the coming season, in time for the fall crop, you 

 will find plenty of accommodations with any of the Atlantic 

 steamers fitted up with the nicest kind of refrigeration and 

 they will handle your goods in the most careful manner 

 from the time they leave the American port until they 

 reach the other side. In shipping via Southampton, we 

 have large cold storage warehouses there, at deepest 

 water, where two largest ocean-going steamers can lay 

 along side and unload at one time, and facilities for taking 

 out as many as 100,000 packages an hour, and cars run 

 directly into these cold storage houses, and as it is only one 

 hour and forty minutes to the center of the Covent Garden 

 market, London, produce can be kept in storage until 

 market conditions are all right and then be put on the 

 market inside of two or three hours. 



