The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-01-08

We had also the Covent Garden mar
ket report before us at the time. in
which pines were quoted at S1.25 per
pound. The English market gard
eners grow thousands of pines, for
which they get large prices, a small
one selling for guinea (s5). There
are only two or three months of the
year that pines are brought to the
United States from the West Indies.
at which time they can be bought
cheap. We however had no refer.
ence to fruit arsthat time We were
advocating the growing of a crop to
come in when the West Indies fruit
were out Of season. There are as
many wealthy people in the United
States to purchase fruit, when it is
dear, as there are in England.
People who can give S. per quart for
Strawberries, and we have known
Florida berries to sell at twice that
figure, can afford to purchase dear pines
We see in our last New York mar
ket report that cucumbers were sell
ing at So per dozen, yet at certain
seasons they can be bought at IS cts.
per bushel. According then to H.
A. J.'s theory the price OF cucumb
would never advance over 25 cents
per bushel. We can inform this wise
acre that there are people willing to
pay 81 per pound for the early grapes,
SO per dozen for early peaches and
other fruit in proportion. Pine-ap-
pies thrive well here, we have five
FOUNDER now before our eyes as we
are writing, and we do not think that
his 10 cents and SO cents that he is
SO flush about, would buy it. A lit
tie cocoothes Scri6eradi is s Dad thing
especially when backed by ignorance
and it will take a better informed
person than he to catch us tripping.
We publish II. A. Us letter.
"In late number of the Florida
Agricultat,'ist find an article on the
culture of the pineapple, in which
occurs the following passage:
Here is an industry that requires
little capital, large returns, and one
that gives speedy income, only re.
quiring attention and Judgment to
develop it into grand feature for
the State. We would advise those
entering into it, not to be too greedy
but to begin with small number of
plants, that they can conveniently
manure. protect and attend to, and
increase their cultivation from the
plants they grow. Send the very
first class fruit, carefully packed, into
the market, and get the highest pri-
ces. 1t will not take many pine-ap-
Piles at So to $15 each, to fill a mans
pockets with those bright new dollars
now waiting in Washington for our
people to draw down here, &c.
What does the editor mean !
Pine-apples at IS to SIS each "
What nonsense is this? Is it fair to
gull inexperienced northern immi-
grants in this way? Any one who
has ever bought pine apple knows
that from 10 to so cents is the com
mon price, and that they are otter
sold at Key West for much less thar
the smallest amount here mentioned
The pineapple is tender and has te
be carefully protected in most parts
of Florida, and it is sheer "bosh " tt
talk of "filling mans pockets
with the profits of culture yet in
its faintest incipiency, and unfair anc
deceptive to lead any one to suppose
that pine,apples will ever bring sucf
absurd prices. Let us have no more
of such inflated bombast. What We
want is the t7'uth,-H. Il. IT, IN Su7
and Press.
| Inolecide Dacamher % 1879