The Americans are trying to send us fruit. The '
Ohio,' which was to leave Philadelphia for Liverpool on August 26, had on board 3,000 crates, equal to about as many bushels, of peaches, all grown in Delaware. They are to be kept by refrigerators in a temperature of about 35°, and will, it is said, keep good for a length of time. If the peaches are nice—a point upon which we have heard two accounts—we heartily welcome the experiment, but the Americans will have to be a little dogged about the matter. Attempts to sell good cheap fruit in London are often baffled by the informal Trades Union which manages the trade, and would rather destroy whole cargoes than allow the people to obtain fruit cheap. The Americans should open shops of their own, and even then the monopolists will buy up their peaches, and either sell them at double rates, or sell them rotten, to create a prejudice.
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