. Crops that pay : pecans, figs, mangoes, avocados, kumquats . Pecan; Fruit-culture. THE AVOCADO. 6i. BY PERMISSION U. S. DEPT. YOUNG AVOCADO TREE. ROLFS, eUL. 61, BUREAU PLANT INDUSTRY are sold for the shipper's account at prices ranging from $ to $ a crate. Really fine fruit sometimes reaches market badly packed and much damaged, resulting in very low prices. The sell- ing price for good fruit and bad fruit as it runs, averages $, from which must be deducted 10% commission for selling, and eighty cents a crate for freight and cartage, leaving the shipper $, net, or 7 cents f
. Crops that pay : pecans, figs, mangoes, avocados, kumquats . Pecan; Fruit-culture. THE AVOCADO. 6i. BY PERMISSION U. S. DEPT. YOUNG AVOCADO TREE. ROLFS, eUL. 61, BUREAU PLANT INDUSTRY are sold for the shipper's account at prices ranging from $ to $ a crate. Really fine fruit sometimes reaches market badly packed and much damaged, resulting in very low prices. The sell- ing price for good fruit and bad fruit as it runs, averages $, from which must be deducted 10% commission for selling, and eighty cents a crate for freight and cartage, leaving the shipper $, net, or 7 cents for each fruit. It is certain that no grower of choice avocados of the late varieties, who grades his fruit carefully and packs it right, has ever received anything like so low a price as this. Avocados, of the late crop of 190S, were sold in Miami and Palm Beach at $ a dozen—not crate. Any company or individ-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Dygert, Henry Arthur, 1856-. Philadelphia : H. A. Dygert
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