The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-09-13
EARLY ORANGES TO ENGLAND.

subicc' of working up the market for our
surplus oranges abroad. While we think
the time has not yet come and will not
very soon arrive when we shall have any
very large surplus of fruit to be gotten
rid of by foreign shipments, we unheSita-
tngly say that now is the time for grad
ually establishing a good name and there
by profitable market on the other side
of the Atlantic, and by all means let it
be done with the very best the State can
show. There is a good deal Of truth in
the remark of our correspondent; "a poor
unripe quality Of fruit will never gain a
permanent footing in a market already
occupied with good varieties, especially
in view of the fact that Florida fruit can
never be sold as cheap as the Medterra-
mean to bring any fair returns Of profit to
the producer.
At the same time our correspondent
should not lose sight Of the fact that there
is undoubtedly q good deal of fruitfrom
the hammock groves particularily)whi
is sweet enough to eat before the end Of
November The difficulty would be to
confine early shipments to this variety Of
fruit, and to prevent the sending of I'M
ripe sour fruit from the pine land groves.
This is again matter in which the per-
sonal factor enters entirely, just like the
early shipping Of unripe fruit to our own
home markets by which certain con-
scienceless growers spoil the late market
regularly year by year;.a practice against
which the AGRICULURIsT has annually
welded the pen for many pears past.
While we do not make a practice Of
bringing advertising matters into the ed
itorial column we would respectfully re-
fer our readers to the advertisement of
Messrs. Campion, Goodsell & Co., found
on the sixteenth page Of this issue.
Shipments can be made to them in large
Or shall quantities. Via New York and the
fruit will arrive in a comparatively short
time and in good condition, or at least
it should. These gentlemen have ar
ranged the lowrate Of ST Is cents per box
and will take pleasure in furnishing any
information desired by intending ship
pers who can rest assured of fair and
honorable treatment.
While we are on this subject Of early
shipments Of fruit we wish to do as we
have done every year for the past decade.
Caution our people against precipitancy
in the matter of shipments. All indica-
tons point to the early ripening of our
crop this season and while the crop is by
no means as large as the bears would
have us think it is probably as large as
any crop yet produced in the State Of
Florida, still we will have ample timeif
the conditions continue favorable for the
early ripening Of the fruit as now indi-
dicated-and there is no occasion for
haste aside from the fact that the present
financial depression will undoubtedly
make the condition Of the early market
unsatisfactory and unremunerative. We
therefore say that our growers should be
in no hurry to send their fruit away from
the State before it is ripened. Give the
orange chance and if you re fuse to
do this and insist on sending fruit to
market containing enough raw acid to
make the saurians shed tears of anguish
do not blame the fruit if it fails to bring