Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-24
Apples---The FavOrite Varieties
Where they Come From and
nk.air. Dr.iHRS

A person passing through almost any of
the busy thoroughfares of New York can
not help seeing, and, perhaps, may atten-
lively notice many stands piled with pyra-
mids of applies, each heap bearing a card
indicating the price in cents of one of the
smooth, fat parents of cider underneath;
or in early morning before he may be
awakened by the sonorOus cry OF the
licensed vender-''h' y e-pie-app's-ten-
cents-small-mezh'r,'' without much refiec-
tion upon the associations connected with
this fruit; how, as we are told in the old
est written history, an apple in the hands
of Eve was the occasion of inextricably
mixing and seriously damaging the
affairs of man, or how Cy-
dippe was so much bothered by
an apple given her by Acontius. Again,
and this is more to the purpose, one might
wander into the precincts of Washington
Market and see the hundreds of barrels of
the fruit standing unheaded ready for sale,
or piled up for transportation, without
much considering the great commercial
Importance it has and the amount of money
that is yearly invested in it. The apple
season is just now fairly commenced, and
SO far as concerns the earlier varieties it is
at its height; the season for the important
later or winter apples, as they are called.
does not begin until about the middle of
November. But from this time until then
the orchards in the country are busy with
stanl still. The favorite varieties of
Fall apples are the York, Twenty
ounce, and Fall Pippins and Pound
Sweets, the York Pfppin being, if any
one, preferred, but all OF them excellent for
desert. Of these varieties the greater part
comes to this city from the central and
western portions of the State, although
considerable quantities are gathered in the
lower counties and New Jersey contributes
a share. None come from Pennsylvania
nor from the Eastern States. Indeed buy
ers are now here for the purpose OF procur-
ing them for Massachusetts,, and one sale
on Saturday of thousand barrels is re-
ported. Philadelphia, Baltimore, and the
South generally depend for their supply,
not only of early but also of winter apples,
upon the Empire State. The amount of
AL apples sold and to be sold here this year
is estim ated by well informed dealers to be
batween $4,000 and $4,000; and the quota
tions for the choice varieties mentioned
range from 81 to SIS per barrel, according
to the size and condition of the fruit. Sales
of large quantities have been made at 81 to
Eastern buyers.
If the trade in the fall varieties is of con-
siderable proportions, as the figures given
above will show, the business done in win
ter apples is immense, and for sufficient
reasons. The latter are generally finer
fl Ivored and more juicy; they are less per-
ishable, and are consequently better adapt
ed to export, and they are not so apt to be
defective. Of the varieties out of nearly
twohundred that are held in highest estima-
ton are the RoXbury, Russet, Rhode Is
land, Greening, Baldwin and SpitZenberg.
The last named is the favorite, and is gen.
orally preferred because OF being better
suited to all uses than any other kind
Second i'm demand is the Greening, which
by some is even considered equal to the
Spitzenberg; the others are nearly as well
liked. Within the space oftwO months in the
last of autumn and the beginning of win
ter, many thousand barrels of these late
varieties are shipped from this port to
Southern cities, Cuba, and South America /;
formerly they were dispatched as far as
San Francisco, but California is now inde-
pendent of us in this particular. So supe-
rior is this fruit Of our country that consid-
cradle quantities are also sent to England,
and in Covent Garden Market it COM
mauds very high prices. The sources from
same as those of early fruit, except that
New Jersey does not produce as many and
the Eastern States yield more. The whole
sale Iices of the later varieties will proba-
bly, rule from So to So 50per barrel. 1t is said
that some contracts for orchard have been
made as low as So 80 and $2.25 per barrel
on the tree, and one sale OF athousand bar
rels of ofSpitzenbergs at $2.75 is mentioned.
The number that will pass through New
York this season Is variously set at from
100000 to 100000. The yield this year
has been an excellent one, the fruit being
of good quality and very plentiful. Last
wear apples were brought here from Ohio,
but now they cannot be procured in that
State as low as they are sold in WASH
ington Market. One statement is made re-
garding the retail trade, chiefly monopo.
iized by sidewalk Instructors, which is
rather Incredible; that the retailer can on
Iy clear about fifty cents on barrel.-
NJ Y. World.