This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V25", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
The London Garden says: " In speaking to Mr. Walter Draper, of Covent Garden, the other day of the state of the packing of the enormous number of apples coming to us from America during the past season, he referred to the great loss and disappointment incurred from bad packing, brands found to be deficient in that way being evaded by the purchaser. He said there would be no objection whatever to the apples being classed, and that sales could be readily found for more than one class, but the ones, twos and threes should be rigidly and conscientiously separated, and kept so in the barrel. The Canadian apples are much better. As it is to Mr. Draper's firm that most of the apples coming to the London market are shipped, his opinion may be worth mentioning to our American readers."
 
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