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ig E us *a drink like the best southern cider is made from 
the bana 
A pro ik was made a short time ago to import bananas in pulp to 
Europe for the purpose of making wine from it, 
TRADE. 
esh Bananas in the United States.—The York is information 
iion in 1889 by a large dealer in bananas at New Yo d 
from the Agricultural Record of Trinidad, i., pp. 47, 48 .— 
“ Regarding bananas, good, large fruit and large bunches will alway 
bring good prices in this market, Small bunches and small fruit Bier 
months to ship bananas here. Extra fine large bunches in those 
months will bring $2 to $2 25c. per bunch and ready sale, when small 
bunches will not sell for over 60 c. to 75 c. per bunch and a drug in the 
market at even those low prices. 
* Bananas are brought to New York by the thousands of bunches 
very successfully, and the passage by steamer is from eight to nine days 
and oft times 10 days. Our market would take one million bunches of 
bananas a month at $2 to #2 25c. per bunch (extra fine fruit) in the 
months mentioned above, and the banana sitam is as yet only in its 
infancy. The demand is increasing each yea 
“T imported 20 years ago 4,000 bunches neci from Baracoa, it 
took 10 days to sell them. Ten years ago I imported a cargo of 10,000 
erazy; it took four days to sell them. This year I have seen 14 
steamers discharging cargoes in New York in one week, ranging from 
10,000 to 16,000 bunches bananas each. The cargoes were sold out in 
four to five hours.” 
The latest information in regard to the trade in fresh bananas at New 
York is contained in the oe note which appeared in Garden and 
Forest, May 9, 1 
* The demand for baci is shown by the quick sale of 130,000 
pen in this city alone last week, at a wholesale peins as high as 
1 65c.'a bunch. The scarcity and high vids of domestie and all other 
foreign fruits, m eon pineapples, help the sale of Pasii dd at this 
season, and large orders are received here from the interior and from 
Canada." 
Fresh RE m England.—Fresh bananas are acy shipped 
to this re the Continent from Madeira and the Canary 
è St : 
ists for the most 
(Musa Cavendishii). When well —— and allowed to get fully ripe 
i ent fru As seen in this country it is 
evidently gathered before it is fully. prn the pulp is dry and mealy, 
aud —— is " or no flavour. A few bunches of the best Jamaica and 
"ig bana oceasionally received in this country, but on the whole 
the English penis not shown a disposition to use bananas as a dessert 
fruit on anything like the scale seen in the temperate parts of the New 
World. 
» According to the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1886 [1], p. 498, “The 
exportation of bananas from Grand Canary and Teneriffe is report 
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