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fruit will arrive at market in good order, we will be pleased 
to hear from him. 
C. A. Hasenyager —I shipped some last year. I wrapped 
them and packed them in half boxes, the same as we use for 
oranges, and they sold in Philadelphia for $3.75 per box. 1 
picked them some time after Christmas, but the early ones 1 
have not succeeded in marketing yet. They were very hard, 
and I kept some of the fruit three weeks before it was fit to 
eat. I wrote small cards and cautioned the dealer that they 
must be kept until they were soft before they were ready for 
the consumer. They sold well. 
S. S. Harvey —I have made an effort to raise a small grove, 
having just lately become interested in the fruit. I have set 
out about three acres. I have raised a few trees. I shipped 
some fruit to Chicago last year. They would ship round the 
world. As the gentleman has just said it takes two weeks 
for them to get fit to eat. The difficulty I found in the first 
shipments was that nobody knew how to eat them or when to 
eat them, but they are learning rapidly in the western cities.. 
There is quite a difference this year. I shipped my fruit in 
the Sinclair boxes. They went to Chicago in good condition 
and they brought me an average of to 2f cents apiece. I 
had one tree with 185 fruits one year, another 235. The 
trees were about lour years old, possibly five, but there was 
not the slightest difficulty about shipping and reaching the 
market in fine condition. I think that if we make a success 
of this fruit it will be necessary to print a slip giving direc¬ 
tions in regard to using it, and put in each box shipped, cer¬ 
tainly for a year. My commission man in Chicago tells me 
that the fruit men buy them to ornament their stalls. From 
my sales last year I was encouraged to plant, aud I think it 
will be a good paying fruit. I had a difficulty in growing the 
trees, as I found there was some insect that attacked the 
leaves and curled them up. I used a solution of tobacco and 
got rid of the insects and have had no trouble about the curl¬ 
ing of leaves since. 
G. P. Healy —I would like to ask the gentleman how many 
are consumed in ornamenting ? 
Mr. Harvey —I do not think that is a matter of any mo¬ 
ment. I think the consumers are rapidly learning to know 
the fruit. My commission man informed me that they read¬ 
ily sold in the California market in 20-pound peach boxes 
last season for $3.50 to $3.75. 
T. K. Godbey —I have been growing the persimmon for 
about seven years. I had, I think, the first fruit planted in 
the state. I now have about 500 trees. I have never had 
