Excerpt from Report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, for the Year 1887 In, any case, it pays to store long keepers here rather than ship early, as they will realize much better prices, besides keeping better in this dry climate that in the damp and clammy winters of Britain. The large grape crop of the present season and the exceedingly low prices, icauses the growers to ask what are the prospects of obtaining markets for an increasing supply? I firmly believe that if proper cold storage can be secured on the steamships, Britain will soon prove to be a good market for our open air grapes. But as the taste for them is' one that must be acquired largely, such a trade must be approached with all due care. The only class of grape consumers in Britain are those who can afford to pay very high prices for hot-house varieties, and those who are satisfied with the poor quality of the ordinary ' spanish white grape of commerce. I have no doubt at all that our grapes would find a ready class of consumers if once introduced in competition with the Spanish grape. It will be necessary to test various ways of carrying our grapes and various packages, so as to ensure their arrival in perfect condition. Those packed in berry boxes tightly enclosed in a case containing some ten or a dozen such boxes, carried better than in any other way to the Colonial at London last year. The square boxes used last year for apples and pears were not after all so serviceable as good neat barrels. Fruit could not be packed tightly in theboxes, and hence bruised badly. Undoubtedly the barrel is by far the best package yet tried for apples fiand when the quarter hoops are driven down far enough to allow the barrel roll upon them, it saves the fruit from bruising in the bilge of the barrel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.