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Show California) Frnls itsU. If you are not a politician and want n got n plum you have to go to California for it, vicariously, perhaps, but none the less certainly at this season. So when you see a lot of thrme big purple beauties lying in little nest j of white tissue paper( looking as though they bwl just dropped from the tree all ready to be Wtt6, don't be deceived. They have all come from California; they have been handle in good part by Chinese chetp labor; they have taken a long journey over land, and have grown r"per on the way, but they are tremendously goo' all vhe ' lame. Just buy one and try it. And this contribution to New York's comfort from California is a godsend. For the fruit crops in the east here have fallen off very considerably this year, some say as much as OS per cent., or where there are usually 200,000 packages from New England, New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland there are now received, even on busy day, barely 8,000, and sometimes only 1,000 packages. But California, according to her fruit merchants here, has leaped into tbe breach like a constitutional Curtius, and promises to send here this year 600 car loads of fruit, each containing 20,000 pounds of the delicious products of rich soil and plentiful, dew mellowing sunlight. sun-light. All of this fruit comes herein refrigerating refriger-ating cars, and reaches the market here in admirable condition, all ready to be eaten. New York Herald. |