The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-19
FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

Unprecedcnted Crops-Nature In n Lavish Mood
The following article from the Wilmington (Del)
Commercial assumes a local interest when we
consider the nearness OF that brisk little place to us
and its location in a rich fruit and vegetable pro-
ducing country, which sends such formidable sup
plies to our markets.
Prone as we are to believe in that which we wish
to come true, we doubt If the most sanguine have
realized yet how bounteOus the crops of fruit
and vegetables will be this year. The strawberry
season, drawing to close, has been one of un-
paralleled success. The berries have been fine, the
weather generally propitious and the season unusu-
fruit to market were all that could be desired. The
only thing that checked the shipments, when tney
a OF the iS New S "Ss York 9 market and as prices
there have revived again, the trade has ex-
e through to jersey City on wednesday, loaded with
Strawberries cherries, and peas and quite quantity
were shipped to Philadelphia. the railroad com,
seven hundred and fifty quarts QOlS,15O) large as 1t
appeared when we published it month ago, has
already been largely exceeded and the season is not
yet closed. This, however, does not include the
Shipments by water, the large quantities taken by the
fruit-cannng establishments, nor those consumed
here or turned into wine. The season has been
truly wonderful one, and we do not doubt that the
whole peninsula has raised more than two million
quarts, or g., 800 bushels.
| or cherries the shipments have been unusually
large, and the may be said of peas, though we
have no data at present from which to form statis-
| tics. An unusually large amount OF ground mas
n fSr e asa Stations Of a s
| alone Sc barrels were shipped to Philadelphia one
| day this week. 80
| promises to be enormous That mythical individual,
the 'Oldest intabitant," throughout his life scarcely
| remembers q year when the bushes were so laden
with fruit and all modern people frankly admit that
they never knew of such crop. Shipments of black
| berries win probably commence next week.
BY aboutthe 18th OF July huckleberries Swhortle-
berries) viii be ready for shipment. This delicious
| wild berry is iftpossble even more abundant thaa
the blackberry and ''thck as huckleberries" means
something around the swamps this year; the large
crop of these wild berries Is particularly welcome as
the money received for them goes directly into the
pockets Of the poorer part of the population. The
more children man has the richer he Is during the
berry season. or cultivated blackberries there will
also be O. considerable crop, but they are not very
extensively raised The same is true of raspberres
concerning which we know little beyond the fact
that 1t is expected the railroad companys estimates
| Of q, 900 quarts will be realized.
| Last, but very far from least, come the peaches
Speculation concerning this crop is at an end, and
growers are busily preparing to send the fruit to
market and make arrangements for its sale. A num-
ber OF commission men have already arrived here to
| make arrangements, and buyers who buy the fruit
as it stands are also on the ground
| The railroad companies Nhe Philadelphla, VIII
| mington and Baltimore, and the Camden and Am
boy) have over 400 cars ventilated and shelyed for
| this business, and the whole number and probably
more will be brought into requlstlon with al
their immense preparation, 1t is probable they VIII
have as much as they can do to move the crop
It is generally conceded that the estimate OF one
million five hundred thousand baskets on which
the company has based its calculations viii fall al
short the actual YIELD to nothing OF the fruit
which seeks market by water, and for which also
unusual preparations have been made. These, how
ever are mere matters OF detail the great TACT re
mains that peninsula, Impoverished by the years
of failure is this year blessed with crops unprece
dented in its history and which bring peace comfor
| and happiness into hundreds of homes which have
: been the abiding places Of want and misery for tw'
long years.