The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-08-13

~hsh hey have been shipped They are bought .. the
rate Of from thirty TO nfty cents bunch in gold, and
70 qualify During the season about fy cargoes are re-
ceIyed. AMHM @
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From the West India Islands, large quantity OF
oranges arc also received BY many they are cseemea
Of finer favor than the Mediterranean. The Bara
oranges arrive here in September and last until De-
cember; Porto Rico Jamaica and Havana fruit Ia re-
ceived here Ia the middle OF December and con-
tnucs up 10 the lst OF April The supply Of Ha-
vanas, particularly last season, small ID con.
sequence OF The hurricane which visited tho Island
IN the early part OF The fall The fruit instead OF being
gathered from the trees by the hand Is the case With
the Mediterranean Is shaken from the tree while green
This may be regarded OF the principa causes Of
rot the fruit is Injured more less by the fall II
gathered Immediately after rain storm bad
RESULTS are sure 70 follow 10 enard asuns. m
advisable To allow them remain ON tie tree a. iefs
t~o days after storm has taken place when gNheieu
from tn ground they carried tho backs OF mules
the heads backs Of slaves TO tho vessels Inc
system OF packing order protect them IT, or should
be similar that Of the pineapple Stone ballast IN the
Is disrcgared and sand ballast used instead Should the
vessel chance TO ship sea the water going between
decks mnges with the sand and the acon o the vessel
causes 10 work up among the fruit and destroy IT, The
proper means them is by laying them in tiers
floors than eighteen inches deer aud sepa-
rated in such that free current of air passes
between them These vessels carry from three 10 hive
hundred thousand in bulk. The VOYAGE lasts ten days
olHER TRANSPORT.
Oranges also brought into this port BY the steamers
sailing from Havana Tho fruit thus brought packed
in barrels, each containing about three hundred Not
withdrawing that the fruit carefully packed very
many are destroyed during the passage Large quaint
ties Of tobacco and cotton being on board The hold be-
makes the trip IN four or i've days.
PRICE OF ORANGES.
The fruit Is bought at an average Of s. per thousand
In gold and sold here $40 per barrel These prices
win Of course vary according TO the supply, demand and
Tie quality.
Cocoanuts brought into the market with bananas
and are obtained in quantities on the island Of Cuba
aud others of the West Indian group They
high trees clusters o. three four and cut by the
slaves after which they carried TO port slung
poles The mode Of shipping has already been described
az they brought here with bananas. Each vessel
carries about fifty thousand oanuts They bought
At the rate oil about SIS thousand and sold at $s5
BY Gar the largest supplies Of cocoanns however,
obtained rrsm Brazil Nicaragua and the islands Of the
spanish Main The fruit received from those places is
known rs the Carihagcnan cocoanut
SHORT surPLy--TBE CAUSE
The supply this summer will fall short Of former
visited tho the Goth of October II
most destructive for years large trees being torn from
their roots houses blown down. and the most destructive
havoc oft in evidence OF its violence upon any and all
things II possible % Djure The country and islands
adjacent % The coasts suffered terribly As evidence
OF IT'S dcsrctiblily Pearl Cay, small island on the
coat Of Nicaragua, which contained three thousand
trees not bad been left Standing the house in
which their owner lived was blown away, and he and
his family either killed drowned. Other oca
ties suffered greater lesser degree The supply to
the middle Of March was up TO the usual standard, but
one third crop can be relied on
ID--SlIrkRST--Lcss
The tree yields during the several hundred OF
the fruit The vessels employed IN bringing IL 10 this
port tho usual fruit schooners The annual supply OF
the CsrihagenIan amounts to About seven per
DontxTIc yRurs-w ATTENTION MAsoS--surrLy.
The watermelon IL perhaps the most democratic, II
the most popular Of all native fruits The
about the middle Of Jnly aud continues
until the middle OF October Georgia and South Carolina
f.rnishe US with the earliest samples, but the great
htlr atroI Virgtn N1Yx land nmA Nm
Jersey Long Island also furnishes fair quota Large
fields containing from 70 twenty acres laid out
its cultivation, and technically called patches Tho
melons most esteemed in the Inarke, those which
como from the sol bordering Magotliy river. which
runs through Anne Arundel county Maryland. Virginia
supplies good fruit Jersey for quantity exec DIS all
compositions. ~
now IsronTEp-racr.
II IL next to impossbily to oD'ein anything like
correct estimate Of the numbers brought into tins
ket Scbooners employed in the trade from Mary
land and Virginia Propeilers generally bring in the
New Jersey u land scarcely vessel coming from ports
where they NAV he had that does not contain more
less From nitsen TO twenty cent are lost from in
worthless though ofientimes vendors buy them " low
rate and make sale OF hem They are bought rs low as
IS per hundred hut good fruit cannot be obtained much
below sos and sold in this market at prices varying
from $50 10 $40.
pusEwrioss
The kmelon Ia supposed have originally
from Persia but u has bcpr 50 long cultivated in warm
countries that its nativity Is extremely doubtful The
SOILS OF Virginia. Maryland, New Jersey and Long Island
arc very favorable ITS growth and II Is easily raised
The earliest melons obtained In this market are from
Savannah and Charleston, but their supply Il not
extensive Probably the finest those obtained from
the neghborhood OF Haskensack, New Jersey
rBK sEssoS-IsioRrAnoys
The season commences lttle later than that Of the
watermelon and terminates earlier ~ ~ very GlncNii
70 obtain estimate OF the number OF melons
imported here. They brought by all modes Of
vcysnce and in all shapes. While many are brought in
vessels In bulk others carefully packed in barrels
and crates Some estimate may be formed oil the
amount Of trade the Tact that during last
propeers daily employed between this city and
keypoft IN bringing the fruit 10 market Probably one
thousand barrels day, hy these vessels were brought
here. The supply this year promises TO equal that OF
last
TIE LAVA COMPLAINT
Among importers Of fruit great deal OF III feeling is
expressed In reference the injustice OF the tarin
Law in its relation 10 the Importation Of their staple
The duty IL twenty I've per cent, payable 70
gold. asSesied from the invoice without any de.
duc,ion being made for the quantity spoiled
damaged during the voyage. According To the
OF sound saab,. fruit, but tho new Law requires
duty the amount as per invoice. The cargo how
ever can be abandoned In which will fall into the
hands Of the government. Fully twenty-five per cent
Of all foreigs fruit imported here s rendered unit for
Market yet importers required 10 pay duty upon
the unsalablf well "a sslablc article.
PROM the foregoing facts idea may be gained OF
the business done in this particular rnde. Not more
than half dozen houses are employed In the whole
business No long ledger accounts exist TO pcrplex zeal
The busincsis for cash No large counting rooms
aSresthe eye OF the pedestrian stimulate
onirys the nature az the business transacted but the
hustle within and around the unpresntous stores
stands and oSccs which the trade Is carried
ample cvldeuc, of the enterprise thr and sagacy Of
,hose 20 whom fhev belong
I'VE GREAT BRAZILIAN FAIR