4 SUCCESSFUL FRUIT CULTURE 



should be sufficient to largely take the surplus that 

 our owTi population does not consume. In a single year 

 we exported over 3,395,000 barrels of apples to Europe 

 (largely, or almost wholly to England), and a demand 

 for other fruits in large quantities will no doubt arise 

 whenever we can deliver them to these markets in a 

 satisfactory condition. The great progress being made 

 in methods of preservation and shipping fresh fruits 

 will, no doubt, soon solve this important problem, when 

 we can hope to ship successfully to European markets 

 our oranges, grapes, pears, plums and even peaches. 



Within the past few years a large demand has 

 arisen for our evaporated fruits in foreign markets, and 

 the fact that in this condition these products can be 

 kept for an almost indefinite time, occupy the least 

 possible space and can be shipped to the remotest mar- 

 kets of the world must lead in the future to their largo 

 consumption. In 1897 30,883,921 pounds of evaporated 

 apple was exported from the United States to foreign 

 countries. 



The business of utilizing the products of our 

 orchards and gardens by evaporation and canning, 

 while in its infancy, has reached large proportions, espe- 

 cially in seasons of abundance, where the supply can 

 thus be carried over to seasons of scarcity, but is des- 

 tined to become a far greater factor in the future of 

 fruit growing. The immense wastes of our orchards 

 during the summer and autumn, when fruit perishes 

 very quickly, may be in this way saved. It is said that 

 over 600 carloads of evaporated apple were shipped 

 from one county in New York State in the season of 

 1894, and other sections are rapidly increasing in this 

 method of utilizing the poorer grades of apples. The 

 city of Boston in one season consumed over 1,000,000 

 pounds of evaporated apple and more than the same 

 number of gallons of canned apple. The surplus and 



