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applfs in new jersey. 
X all this rush and roar about wonder¬ 
ful fruit-producing sections, let no one 
forget that New Jersey has not only great 
possibility as a fruit-selling State, but 
that her growers are producing some of 
the best fruit now grown on a tree. New 
Jersey is the great highway, running be¬ 
tween two of the largest cities iu the 
world. Scattered along this highway 
are dozens of great manufacturing towns, 
full of wealth, energy, and good taste in 
buying food. In addition to this, along 
the coast of New Jersey each year five 
million or more of people come down from 
the hills, or out of the interior, to play 
through the Summer on the ocean sands. 
All these people have good appetites, and 
most of them want the best. Not only 
so. but they have the money to pay for it. 
Thus so far as markets go, there is no 
State in the country so well supplied as 
New Jersey. Another thing—get inside 
fact that this ability to produce good I 
fruit is not going to die out with the pres¬ 
ent generation. The Jersey hoys are 
coming forward to take the place of their 
fathers, and this is more than can be said 
of many localities where the rise to apple- 
producing fame has been more rapid. 
At the last horticultural meeting prizes 
were offered for the three best-packed 
boxes of apples handled by boys under 
IS years. These boxes were to be packed 
at the meeting where all could see how 
the work was done. Three boys compet¬ 
ed, and the prizes were won by Chas. 
Barclay, Carroll Barclay, and William 
Black, names that have become famous 
to those who are acquainted with high- 
grade Jersey apples. J. II. Barclay tells 
us that his boys had done some packing 
at home, and they had practiced in se¬ 
lecting and grading fruit. At the meet¬ 
ing these boys did their work in an open 
room, and no one could say that they had 
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of this State and it is practically impos¬ 
sible to find a spot of cultivated land more 
than five miles away from a railroad. 
People who do not think or study would 
he likely to tell you that there are only 
three things in New Jersey—mosquitoes, 
dry sand, and salt marsh. Those of us 
who live there can afford to be sorry for 
the unfortunate people whose knowledge 
of geography and history is so poor. The 
fact is that New Jersey, from the point 
where its northern corner butts into New 
York State, down to the last vanishing 
sand at Cape May, comprises every pos¬ 
sible variety of soil, all the way from a 
pure glass sand to the solid rocky ledges 
of the northern part of the State, and 
every fruit and every product of the tem¬ 
perate zone can be grown in abundance. 
While the fruit growers of other sec¬ 
tions have made much more noise in the 
world, none has worked with greater in¬ 
dustry, or to better advantage than the 
Jerseyman. The New Jersey State Hor¬ 
ticultural Society is a solid, progressive 
body, sound and business-like, with a 
large membership and a wide influence 
within the State. It is very doubtful if 
the horticultural society of any other 
State in the Union has really had great¬ 
er home influence than that of New Jer¬ 
sey. and its results are now becoming 
very apparent. At the last meeting of 
the New Jersey Society, such men as 
John II. Barclay, Lemuel Black, and a 
score of others, made exhibits of fruit of 
such beauty and quality, that visitors 
from outside of the State were astonished. 
Nothing that ever came across the coun¬ 
try from the Pacific Coast could compare 
in beauty with those apples exhibited by 
Barclay and Black. It is safe to say 
that if the State of New Jersey were to 
raise a fund with which to send a car 
containing a load of Barclay’s fruit up 
and down through the country, it would 
raise a commotion among fruit growers 
such as never was known before. Some 
of our readers who have given no thought 
to the quiet but effective work which the 
New Jersey Horticultural Society is do¬ 
ing, may think this is extravagant lan¬ 
guage, but a simple examination of the 
fruit exhibit at the last show would con¬ 
vince them that we are making a fair and 
mild statement. And another fine thing 
about the New Jersey proposition is the 
any help whatever in selecting or hand¬ 
ling the fruit. Mr. Barclay says that he 
doubts if he could, with all his long ex¬ 
perience, put up a better pack himself. 
He said he told these boys to get busy on 
equal chances, and if either of them could 
win the first premium he would put up 
$5 extra, so they got the better of him at 
his own terms. The thing about New 
Jersey fruit growing may be summed up 
as follows: The good old State has the 
markets, the soil, the apples, the men, 
and the boys to follow them. What more 
do you ask for? 
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