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father procured imported fancy willow baskets, holding about one pint 

 each, and carefully packed these in crates made for the purpose. This 

 mode proved a success, both in carrying them securely and in making them 

 very attractive. The putting up such a fine variety of fruit in this way 

 gave it notoriety at once, and it brought at first as much as one dollar 



per quart. My father was so well 

 satisfied with his experiment that 

 he advised his sons, Alexander, 

 Edward and myself, to extend the 

 culture of this variety largely. 

 We entered into the business, and, 

 pursuing it with diligence, were 

 well compensated. Our success HHH^B!^' 

 made others desirous of engaging 

 in it, and so it spread out into 

 its large dimensions." Mr. Taber's The Rush for the Night Boat 



graphic picture of " Rush for the night boat " suggests how extensive 

 that business became. The line of wagons at Marlboro' Landing 

 was often nearly half a mile long. Mr. Alexander Young estimates 

 that in the year 1858 1,000,000 pint baskets, or about 14,700 bushels, 

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