NEW ZEALAND APPLES IN ENGLAND.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2208, 30 May 1891, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND APPLES IN ENGLAND.

The' following extracts are from English papers to hand by the last mail^

A luge consignment of apples has, bj the way of experiment (says a London paper), been shipped to this country from Papanui, New Zealand. We are informed that a portion of these apples arrived in London by the s.s. Tongariro in very good condition, and although English apples are still on offer in the market at irom 2s to 10s per bushel, so splendid was the quality of this New Zealand fruit when exposed for sale at auction in Covent Garden market by Messrs W. N. White and Co. (Limited) that they realised the extraordinary price of 15s to 35s per bushel case. The facta are forwarded to us as illustrating “ the extreme importance of and ultimate profit attached to the growing of really first-class fruit.” The Daily News of April 11th mentions that Tasmanian apples were being sold in the West End at 6d a-ptece, at the same time strawberries were fetching about 2d each. The following latter from Messrs Bedfero, Alexander and Co., 8 Great Winchester street, London, appears in the Standard of April 7th:— “Sir, —Apropos of your remarks in the Standard of to-day regarding fruit from New Zealand, it may interest some of your readers to know that to-day we sold by auction 100 cases of New Zealand apples of various sorts, which have been sent over by the Styx Apple Company (Limited), of Christchurch, New Zealand, as a trial consignment, The apples are packed in substantial wooden boxes, containing from 401 b to 501 b net, and they “ earned,” as a rule, very well, only one box being worthless. The prices realised will doubtless be satisfactory to the shippers, and we quote the following: —r Kerry Pippin (dessert apple), 20s a base; Emperor Alexander (large handsome dessert apple), 24s a case ; Hawthornden (cooking apple), 18s a case ; Nonsuch (dessert), 19s a case; Cox Pomona (dessert or cookiag apple), 19s a case; Mobbs Boyal (cooking apple), 14s to 17s a case; Golden Pippin (small dessert), 6a 9d a case; Old Nonpareil (large handsome dessert), 20a to 21s a case. By the steamship Arawa, due here about the 14th instant, and by the steamship Aorangi, about the 28th instant, we expect further shipments.” The Gardeners’ Magazine, of the 11th April, writing of the consignment of New Zealand apples, sent by way of experiment from Papanui, says that they were of much interest in Covent Garden Market as demonstrating the capabilities of the colony in the production of this description of fruit. It adds that the apples were of sb high a euality that on being submitted to auction they realised from 15s to 25s per bushel case. At the time Bordeaux apples were quoted at. from 5s to 20s a case; American from from 15s to 80s per barrel (containing considerably over a bushel); and Nova Scotian from 10s to 80s per bushel; so that the New Zealand topped the market.