Show FRUIT PRESERVED IN discovery recently made considered of high importance what Is considered a high highly v import ant discovery has just been made in the matter of the shipment of fruits it Is believed that a solution has fuel ly been found on the problem of porting delicate tropical fruits long distances the experiments haw have been made by a french company y under the aus pic es of the french government the shipments have been made from G guiana ui a n a a and n d t the he i island s 1 a n d 0 of f fr guadeloupe u a d e lou p e i in n t the h e leaser L e a se r an antilles t i 1 le s to t 0 france a n c e and a n d the outcome Is declared most satis fac tory the secret of the new process Is the envelopment envelop mert of the fruit in a lar kind of peat or turf that namely abich Is known as yellow bellow dutch peat pineapples bananas mangoes sapo vis ond and other c Lel leate fruits have been taken when in perfectly ripe condition enveloped in the fibrous substance and atter after federal weeks spent in tran tation have arrived at their destine tion in a perfectly fresh and sound n peat as Is known Is vegetable mat ter more or les decomposed which passes by insensible degrees into rite fhe less perfectly decomposed peat Is generally of a brown color that which Is perfectly decomposed is often black now moist peat it has tor for some time been known possesses a decided and powerful anti sept c prop erty this is ascribed to the pres pros ence of gallic acid and tannin it is man tested ested f not only in the perfect of ancient trees and of leaves fruits and the like but som soma times even of animal bodies thus tn in some instances human bodies have been found perfectly arese prese preserved arved in pea peat t atter after the lapse of centuries mexican herald |