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Botes, Communications, anb 
IReviews. 
NEW MODES OF DISPOSING OF FRUIT AND 
VEGETABLES. 
In the height of the cherry season this year I had the pleasure of 
showing Mr. Emory E. Smith, an eminent fruit-grower and horticul- 
turist from California, the Kentish methods of cultivating, picking, 
and packing cherries. He was much impressed with the size and 
vigorous growth of the trees, the mode of treating them, and the 
quantity and quality of the fruit ; but he shuddered as he saw the 
ripe, juicy cherries poured into the half sieves, or half bushels, 
from the baskets of the pickers without any selection or assortment. 
“Such fruit as this,” Mr. Emory Smith said, “we should pick just 
before it was quite ripe, handle it most tenderly, and classify it 
carefully, and put the best into shallow wooden boxes, arranged in 
tiers, and send it to New York and other large cities and towns. 
Although it would be perhaps sometimes three days or more on its 
journey, it would arrive as fresh as when packed, and command high 
prices.” It might not be possible to treat the whole of a large crop 
of cherries in England in this way, but the best might at least be 
packed in small quantities after the American fashion, and would, it 
is believed, be readily saleable in all large towns in Great Britain, and 
even in Paris and other Continental cities, whose inhabitants would 
soon appreciate the incomparable lusciousness and flavour of fine 
English cherries. 
We may learn many other lessons as to the distribution and 
disposal of our fruit from the Americans. Our own systems are 
imperfect. The same remark applies equally to vegetables. We 
can grow fruits and vegetables to perfection. In many cases, it 
may be said in most cases, the producer gets only the lowest whole- 
sale price for these, and this frequently is an unremunerative price, 
not because the whole of the fruit-loving and vegetable-eating 
portion of the population are surfeited with these luxuries, but that 
there is a glut in a few centres to which the growers crowd in their 
produce. 
Mr. Dan. Pidgeon’s interesting paper entitled Fruit Evaporation 
