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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
not know that there are any good peaches 
until in July and August when the Elber- 
tas and the later, better class of fruit is 
being marjketed, and for that reason there 
is no strong demand in May and June. 
A burned child dreads the fire and will 
give it a wide birth after suffering from 
its effects. So also the careful housewife 
who after buying one or two lots of in¬ 
ferior peaches with no quality, hesitates 
about trying another lot. Restaurants 
and Hotels will not put peaches on the 
menues until the Stewards know that 
there is a sufficient supply of good fruit 
so that they can be sure to get it daily and 
in sufficient quantities for their needs. 
As the situation now exists, Florida 
peaches only reach the Cheap Dago fruit 
stand trade. There is no real life in most 
markets for our peaches and there will 
not be until sufficient quantities are pro¬ 
duced for them to become an item in the 
markets. 
If Florida produced from twelve to fif¬ 
teen hundred carloads of peaches a year 
the average price per crate would be fully 
25 cents higher than has been realized. 
The Secretary has a few account sales 
realized by the Grififing Florida Orchard 
Company the past three years, which he 
will pass around for those interested to 
examine. These I consider fair prices 
and which will yield the owners of an 
orchard as great a percentage of profit 
as any branch of fruit growing or truck¬ 
ing. These account sales are taken at 
random, out of three years sales, we of 
course omitting those, that owing to de¬ 
lays in transit, insufficient or improper re¬ 
frigeration caused the fruit to arrive in 
bad order, and covers the shipping season 
from early in June until late in July. 
The following are memorandums from the 
Account Sale Exhibited: 
H. B. Williams, Inc. 
Philadelphia, Pa., July 8th, 1903. 
409 crates peaches sold @ $2.00 to 
$2,50 . $956.00 
Freight, Comm, etc. . 369.58 
Net proceeds . $586.42 
F. G. E. Car 15207 
H. B. Williams, Inc. 
Philadelphia, Pa., June i8th, 1903. 
449 crates peaches sold @ $1-75 to 
$2.25 $ 973-00 
Freight, Comm, etc. 409.12 
_ • _ 
Net proceeds . $563.88 
The Lyon Brothers Co. 
New York, June nth, 1904. 
416 crates peaches and cante- 
loupes .... 
277 crates peaches sold @ 
$2.00 to $2.50 . $587.50 
139 crates canteloupes sold 
@ $1.50 to $3.00 . 305.13 $892.63 
Freight, Comm, etc. 363.32 
Net proceeds . $529.31 
(Net for the 277 crates peaches $345.19). 
The Lyon Brothers Co. 
New York, June i6th, 1904. 
334 crates peaches in car C. F. X. lo¬ 
ots sold @ $2.00 to $3.00 . $785.88 
Freight, Comm, etc. 298.54 
Net proceeds . $487.34 
H. B. Williams, Inc. 
Philadelphia, Pa., June 13th, 1904. 
436 crates peaches sold @ $2.00 to 
$2.75 . $993.75 
Freight, Comm., etc. 388.32 
Net proceeds . $605.42 
M. O. Coggins Co. 
Pittsburg, Pa., July 5th, 1904. 
403 crates peaches C. F. X. 10900 .... $700.20 
Freight, Comm., etc. 269.41 
Net proceeds . $530-79 
