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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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that it is safer to dealdirectly with a compatriot than indirectlywith a stranger. As the result, Italy is stillthe largest importer of fruit in America.Spains attempt to introduce her oranges wasunsuccessful, and now, with the exception ofher lemons and her Malaga and Almeriagrapes, she sends but little of her product tothis country. The great changes in the conditions ofthe American fruit trade have all occurredsince 1865. Prior to that time the importerof foreign fruit had little reason to figureupon any great local competition, but, sincethe close of the Civil War, the developmentof American resources has completely al-tered the situation. In the earlier days. NewYork, New Jersey, and Delaware were prac-tically the only States in which small fruitswere raised in any considerable quantities,but, even in such instances, there was nothinglike a systematic trade in these products. Ifthe Delaware peach crop failed, there was noother section of the country that could come FRUIT GROWING.
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I. Dewberry field in Maryland. 2. Gaiherini; peaches in Georgia. FRUITS to the rescue, for California at that time wasnot what she is to-day, one of the most re-sourceful fruit-growing States in the Union.The first consignment of fruit from Cali-fornia came by express to New York, in1867. Although picked green, and broughtthrough with as much care as possible, con-sidering the primitive methods of shipmentthen in vogue, the condition of the fruit uponits arrival did not compensate for the ex-pense involved in the experiment. Althoughfinancially a failure, however, both the ship-per and the transportation company hadlearned something from the experience, withthe result that, in November of the followingyear, a second shipment of pears and grapeswas brought through in such good condi-tion that the pears sold at ?3-50 to $5 a box,and the grapes, which were principallyTokays, from $10 to $15 for each 40-poundcrate. This fruit, which was consigned toN. R. Doe, came from California in fourv

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