58 MANUAL OF TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL FRUITS 



marketed for several years at an average net price of $5.25 a 

 crate averaging forty fruits. The average return from 1400 

 crates shipped from another grove was $5.50 a crate. 



Trapps have been shipped from southern Florida to all parts 

 of the United States. A few years ago one grower sent small 

 consignments every day during a large part of the season to 

 Seattle, Washington, and did not receive a complaint of a 

 crate received in bad order. These shipments were on the 

 road eight days, and were not sent in cold storage. It is the 

 general practice to ship from Florida by express. The shipping 

 qualities of Trapp are much better than those of the average 

 seedling. 



At present most of the Florida Trapp crop goes to the 

 markets of the eastern United States, Washington, Philadel- 

 phia, New York, and Boston each taking a good share. Some 

 growers have shipped heavily to Chicago and other points in 

 the Middle W^st, and small shipments go to the Pacific Coast 

 each year. 



The production in California has not yet become great 

 enough to permit of commercial shipments to eastern markets, 

 the crop being consumed locally. Since most of the returns up 

 to the present time are based on the crop from the parent 

 seedling tree of each variety, they are of little value to show the 

 probable profits from a budded orchard of the same sort. The 

 most remarkable record which has been made by a commercial 

 planting of budded trees is that of J. T. Whedon at Yorba 

 Linda. Whedon's planting of the Fuerte variety, containing 

 fifty trees (less than one acre), produced a crop of fruit when 

 five years old which sold for $1700. 



PESTS AND DISEASES 



In the early stages of many horticultural industries insect 

 pests and fungous diseases are not troublesome, but as the 



