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Show l HORTICULTURE EUROPEAN MARKETS OPENING OPEN-ING UP FOR WESTERN FRUITS. There is considerable talk of overproduction over-production of fruit these days, but whtn we consider the whole world as our market it would seem that there is little danger of the overproduction over-production of a first class article. The following clipping is taken from the Chicago Produce News, what is being done in the northwest toward widening their market. Samuel Haines, pear and. apple exporter ex-porter of New York, announced in Spokane that he will ibuy 50,000 boxes, box-es, or 80 cars, of apples in the Northwest North-west this season for European trade, and that he expects to increase this to 250,000 boxes the season of 1909. He bought the carload of Wincsap apples exhibited at the National Apple Ap-ple Show here by H. M. Gilbert of North Yakima, Wash., winner of the second prize of $500, also three cars exhibited by General T. R. Tannatt of Farmington, Wash. The varieties variet-ies arc Wincsap, York Imperial, Black Twig, Rome Beauty and Spitz-enberg. Spitz-enberg. The cars will be sent to New York, where they will be rc-shipped rc-shipped to London and sold at auction auc-tion in the Floral Hall. The Wine-saps Wine-saps were labeled: "Winner of the $500 prize at the National Apple Show, Spokane, Wash. Packed expressly ex-pressly for Sam Haines." Mr. Haines said: "These four carloads I expect to have placed on exhibition for thro days in the big Floral Hall, It will be a novelty, as it is seldom that such beautiful apples are ever placed1 on display in the Floral Hall of the Cov-tnt Cov-tnt Garden, the largest market in London. The demand for the western west-ern apples is good abroad, so far as I know, though I have handled few apples from this district. The varieties varie-ties will be new on the European market .but I am satisfied that they will sell well, and particularly the Wincsap, as it appea.3 to be a good shipper and one of the finest apples grown. The prevailing idea that the European trade demands a green apple ap-ple is erroneous, except that Rhod'o Island Greenings always sell swell for a oooktng apYlc and the Yellow Newtown Pippin as a tabic apple. With the exception of these two varieties, va-rieties, which arc standard on the continent and on the isles, a red apple ap-ple ii demanded. The orchhrdists of the Spokane country and the Northwest North-west need not try to raise a large apple, as a pack of from 96 to 112 in the box is sufficient, and the 112 size is excellent. The larger sizes do not stand the" shipping well and do not sell as well as the smaller sizes when-put when-put on the market. There is certainly certain-ly a future for the Wincsaps and Mcintosh Mc-intosh Reds, as they arc good apples for shipping and will take the place of many poor apples now being sent from the eastern States. Rome Beauties Good Export Apples. "Rome Beauties have been received in the London markets from Australia, Austra-lia, but not many from this country. I feel confident that this variety will soon become one of the best apples for the export trade. The Mcintosh Red is also worth developing, as it will take the place of the Snow, which is a fine apple, but which will not stand the shipping. "The Rhode Island Greenings which I shipped from New York were selling for from $5.75 8.90 a box yesterday in the market at Liverpool, Liv-erpool, while some of those from Virginia have commanded as high as $11.50 a box. I have no idea what prices these apples I am now shipping ship-ping will bring, but they should command com-mand more than those from the eastern east-ern States, as they rc of a better quality and will stand the shipping better. It is nearly impossible to ship apples in the barrels used in the eastern States. Nearly all my apples are sold in the Liverpool or London markets, as the tariff in Germany Ger-many is prohibitive for a direct trade with that country. At present the Germans trade mostly through the Liverpool market. These apples arc sc t all over the continent, there being be-ing a large trade with Russia, which a person would hardly expect. The oars which I am sending" from the West arc all specially packed and the cars papered on the inside for the shipment across the continent. As a word of adVice to the orchardiat I want to say that he should never abandon the box for the barrel, as the M ,5 .., ... ,. ,- ... .. iMiiMir" former is by far the best package m for transcontinental freight. "I grade my apples into two grades I The first is known to the trade as I favorites and the second grade as 1 circles. The favorites often sell with- 1 out the lid broken, as they arc well I known in the European markets and 1 there is never any question as to the i quality, but generally sell readily. I The grower should look after the jf quality of his product, as it must be 1 better than that of the East to equal- tj ize the freight rate from -here to the East. It is also useless to try to raise ;j any of the varieties which have been ij 'i developed in the East, due to the ', cost of shipping from this district." 1 |