Show some chat about these familiar fruits the bananas that we daily seo in our markets come to us daue fields nicaragua they are picked from the trees when they are green and shipped to new orleans by water from new orleans they come to us by rail and upon their arrival in ogden are laid by to ripen they are placed in a dark room which is kept at a temperature of about 70 degrees far being heated by gasoline and after ripening are placed upon the market lemons that look so rich and yellow when they come to us from the green grocers are also gathered while still green and are ripened in the cases away from air and light our dealers however do not keep the lemons during tho ripening process that being done toy the california or other dealers it may be interesting to note that california has had the market of the whole united states to supply with during tho present season the florida crop was killed by frost and the war with spain prevented importations from that country the california orange crop had been estimated by some dealers as being some eight or ten thousand carloads short of the usual crop on account of last years drouth but abc most recent estimates do not bear out these figures the crop was small in size and not up to the usual standard of quality but the principal shortage was owing to the decrease in size a shortage that was probably fully made up it not exceeded in value by the advance in the price of oranges |