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the fruit, it would be waste of money to make experi- 
mental shipments on any large scale from this port by 
the Canadian Steamers under existing circumstances ; 
and that only the least perishable fruit, such as Oranges, 
Grape-fruit, Limes and Pine-apples, could have any 
chance of arriving in a marketable condition at their 
destination. It was, therefore, decided only to make a 
few small separate shipments of the last mentioned 
fruits, whicl\ were carefully carried out, with the fol- 
lowing results : — 
On the 8th of June, three small crates containing 12, 
12 and 16, respectively, of selected Montserrat Pine- 
apples, cut green and packed with partitions between 
each fruit to keep them firmly in position, were shipped 
by the s.s. Ocamo to the Boston Trading Company, 
Halifax, where, on their arrival on the 26th June, after 
18 days' voyage, 14 out of the 40 Pine-apples were 
reported as unsaleable, and the remaining 26 so over- 
ripe that no grocer would buy them, and they had to 
be sold to a syrup manufacturer at 5^1 per dozen. 
On the 3rd of August — 
3 crates Oranges, containing about 300 each. 
2 ,, Grape-fruit ,, ,, 130 ,, 
2 ,, Limes ,, ,, 400 ,, 
which fruit having been picked full, but dead green, 
carefully sorted, selected and wrapped separately in 
tissue paper, were shipped per s.s. Ocamo, and con- 
signed to the Boston Trading Co., Halifax, whose 
report on the same was as follows : — 
•'Halifax, Septr. 13th, 1901. 
- I regret to have to write another letter of poor 
results : the oranges were much wanted if thev had 
