portation of fruit is coined alic entirely 
‘Other F js exported are of trifling quantity and average in value 
le over a huudred dollars a year. 
ep Rem Fruit exported the average value is not much over a 
thousand dolla 
ing to iud Fresh vet T have said there is no separate 
| kept of. this at the Custo From inquiries I have made of 
erchants in the trade it seems to y about equal the value of the e ii 
"uit. - It does not exceed from four thousand to five thousand dollar 8 
| Presero ed Fruit imported Mas Ses in annual value between 
nd and seven a a 
* 
ulti- 
the produce. Shippers are : 
e cultivators being, as a r 
ing ies, livir om hand to mouth, they cannot 
shipping themselves. I have suggested that a company 
ld i be formed to undertake the Uses or that Government should 
few years to vessels rrying fruit. If it were 
y taken up. and judiciously man managed, E believe a very important 
be established from the for which none of the 
tes is in. possession. of better tncilities. 
emarks on the Principal Fruits of Colony. 
These being the a article of food o 
, their produetion come = ext to sugar (though race 
ation) as one of the staple industries of the Colonies. They are 
red green before maturity, and used as a vegetable, boiled or 
roasted. Cut when full grown, but while still green, they are used by 
'olonists roasted in ashes. At this period they have a soft mellow, 
d > ice, ept for a Migs or 
n and turn yell 
is hardly 
r of bunches annually 
m ent three hun dred 
