158 FRUIT RANCHING. 



(401bs. — lOd. per lb.). The fruit was bought by 

 Seeley, Mason and Co., of Portland, who disposed of 

 it the next dnv to New York parties for the fabulous 

 sum of $12 (£2 10s.) per box (Is. 3d. per lb.)." 



The winner of the above-mentioned car-load of 

 apples at the Spokane Apple Show sold 150 boxes 

 of the exhibit at $10 (£2 Is. 8d.) per box to Mr. James 

 J. Hill, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the 

 (American) Great Northern Railway Company, and 

 his son, Louis W. Hill. The remainder of the car- 

 load, 480 boxes, were sold to Messrs. D. Crossley 

 and Sons, of Liverpool, England, for approximately 

 $4,000 (£800). The varieties were Jonathan, Wine- 

 sap, and Spitzenberg. 



With the above may be compared the price of 

 twenty-six shillings offered for the Cox's Orange 

 Pippins sent by the Nelson Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tion to (he Colonial Exhibition in London in Novem- 

 ber, 1907. The Winter Banana is a novelty, and as 

 yet scarce. W'hen it has been grown as long as Cox's 

 Orange Pippin, and is as plentiful, will // too fetch 

 twenty-six shillings the box? 



