The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-26
AMERICAN APPLES FOR EUROPE.

THE FRUIT OF NEW YORK ORCHARDS DIsTR1B-
UTEp GREEN ON BRITISH TABLES.
In connection with the articles that have lately ap.
pearcd IN the HERALD In relation the shipment OF
American beef oysters and other edbcs, brief sketch
the growth and present extent OF the business of
exporting apples to the British markets WILL doubt
prove of interest For the past twenty-five thirty
years American apples have found thor way to differ
ent parts OF Europe, but in small quantities. and in
many merely rs presents from friends In this
country The only variety that was supposed TO have
tho necessary keeping quality was the Nowtown Pip
pin, and TINS KIND was expensive and some years
also poor in quality the shipments were limited in
amount. About 1867, some shipments Of Baldwns
Spitzcnbergs and Greetings made and arrived
good order and each winter thereafter up to that OF
1872 shipments of those varieties were made, though
to limited extent and with varying SUCCESS, lnan-
cially speaking. In the fall OF 1873 IL was found
that the apple crop in Great Britain was
almost total failure, aud. rs II happened
them the crop in this State and the West unusually
large and prices low. The dealers who vcntured on
shipments were we'll paid and The quantity shipped
that season creator than the combined sh pmcns
OF the teu years previous. From that time up last
fall tho sh pmcnls wcrc light, tho English crop
yielded fairly. Last season, however, again failed.
Al the same time the crop in this State and in New
quality, with the exception Of the Newtown Pppin
variety, which yielded abundant but Indifferent fruit
One o! produce houses determined to develop and
systcrpatze the business Of exporting the ut and to
that end of the firm spent tho past winter In Eng
land attending to the reception and sale Of apples
from this port Tho other member OF the firm has at
tended 10 the selection, packing aud shipping OF the
fruit in proper order IRON this side. The result Is
most successful, and what has been heretofore hap
n
Arm and solid bus ness footing
From the middle OF October up TO this time almost
every steamer leaving this port for Liverpool Lon
don has carried shipments varying from 800 to 0U0
barrels. The extent OF the business can be judged
from the tact that the sales OF American apples at
Liverpool alone reached over 10000 barrels IN The
month OF Dcccmbcr last The English people have
received the large quantities shipped this very
avorably and from Liverpool tho other cities OF Man
chester Birmingham, all Bristol and In fact almost
every town III England has been supplied and "Amerl-
appcsN have become literally as familiar there rs
"houscnold words.' Tho greater portion OF the
apples shipped from this port are grown IN Niagara,
Orleans ana Wayne counties, in the west.
cru part OF this state. They como hero via
the New York Central and Erie railroads and
are Inspected, branded and shipped in most
cases direct on TIE steamer from the railway depot,
Gu the steamers they arc generally carried In the
s,ecrago, and through the tall and winter no special
care OF them has been found necessary Since the late
warm weather. however, arrangements have been
made to MI and rcrlgcrato compartments On some OF
the steamers, and last Wednesday the first shipment In
this manner was made the Algeria Of tho Cunard
| line, which carried 2 200 barrels
SHIPMENTS OTHER POINTS.
Tho Canadian apple crop Of 1875 was also large, and
the shipments from Montreal and Quebec last ia ant
trom Portland, Me-, this winter, were quito heavy and
the quality OF tho iruit good. Boston the quite
Tor the heavy crop Of nearly all tho New EngIant
States and though the fruit was hnc and sold "
| the English market At lower prcos than that iron
New York, yet tho trade through tho winter was OK
temsive. Philadelphia has also sent considerable
quantity, consisting mostly Of New YORK State irui
stored there IN tho TALL
| The bulk Of tho shipments arc made TO Liverpool
though London ana Glasgow receive considerable fruit
direct This trade though comparatively new one