FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 65, 14 September 1926, Page 8

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

FROM JAPAN AND AMERICA

THE INCIDENCE OF THE

SEASONS,

Exporting countries generally export their best;' aiid, although Japan is a country with a' teeming population and a food problem,- the class of onion which Japan has been sending into the Dominion since June is of tho best. And,'by the time .the last shipment arrives in Wellington, it is estimated that there will have. been received. 3500 cases. In a. few. days' time Canadian onions will be arriving, and they will continue until November. After • that Australian new season's onions are expected to be on the New Zealand market. •...■■. . . '

. Imports of oranges aro undergoing the usual evolution. Australian navels are Hearing their close, and the first of the Australian valeneias (from New South . Wales) have just reached the Wellington .market. Californian navels are expected to take up the running in December. , In the meantime, however. California will be sending valeneias in competition with Australian valeneias. The first, shipment is expected about 24th ■ September.

Included will be Californian grapes and lemons. Calif ornian grapes generally arrive 'in September, October, and November. California!! lemons come practically all the year round, i When the embargo cut'them off, lemons were imported from as far away as ItsUy., The keeping quality of- the imported' lemon gives it an advantage overthe New Zealand grown, in house-holds,'where-it is kept as a stock item for occasional, use >as - health'or comfort. dictates. Pew people make a meal of lemons, so keeping quality-is important.