| Description | Manuscript and typescript correspondence and memorandums, press cuttings and printed articles regarding the colonial fruit trade. Includes letters by Daniel Morris, and correspondence with the Colonial Office. Volume includes information regarding the fruits grown in each colony, details of their cultivation, statistics on imports and exports, and discussion of packing methods and the feasibility of trading with Britain, in addition to letters relating to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886.
Volume is arranged by colony as follows:
-- General Correspondence --
(Ff1-83) Papers relating to tropical and other fruits, and American fruit growing, including correspondence between Kew and the Colonial Office, with letters by RH Meade, and [Daniel] Morris.
Printed items include:
- 'Fruit as a Factor in Colonial Commerce'
- D Morris, 'Fruits'
- Ch Joly, NOTE SUR L'ÉCOLE D'ARBORICULTURE [ET] DE VITICULTURE DE GEISENHEIM (Paris: Imprimerie Brevetée Michels [et] Fils, 1887) [in French]
- Ch Joly, NOTE SUR LES IMPORTATIONS ET LES EXPORTATIONS DE PRODUITS HORTICOLES DE 1884 À 1886 (Paris: Imprimerie G Rougier et Cie, 1887) [in French]
- Ch Joly, NOTE SUR LES ORANGERIES ET LES IRRIGATIONS DE BLIDAH (Paris: Typographie Georges Chamerot, 1887)
- E Bonavia, 'Some Account of the Orange and Lemon Trade of India' [c.1887].
-- Canada --
(Ff84-105) Papers regarding the Canadian fruit trade. Printed material includes:
- 'Report on Canadian Fruits', 1887
- John Craig, 'Cold Storage of Fruit', [c.1896].
-- Victoria --
(Ff106-139) Papers including list of Victoria fruit, including when in season and price, and the quantity of dried, preserved and fresh fruit imported and exported in the colony during 1886.
-- New South Wales --
(Ff140-154) Papers regarding the cultivation and trade of oranges. Printed material includes:
- 'Fruit Growing in New South Wales'
- 'Tasmanian Fruit in England', 1892
- 'Cold Storage of Fruit'.
-- Queensland --
(Ff155-162) Includes letter from Charles S Dicken requesting advice on packing tropical and semitropical fruit, including pineapples, mangoes and bananas, with reply by Daniel Morris. Includes papers regarding the Horticultural Exhibition, Hamburg, 1897.
-- South Australia --
(Ff163-180) Includes memorandum [c.Jun 1887] regarding the 'black spot (fusicladium) and its effects on apple crops; copy of notes by Thomas Hardy and John J Pascoe, and papers regarding sending a sample of tinned apricots, and Daniel Morris's opinion on them in comparison to tinned fruit from California.
-- Western Australia --
(Ff181-185).
-- Tasmania --
(Ff186-189) Includes papers regarding the apple export trade and cold storage.
-- New Zealand --
(Ff190-213) Includes memorandum by the Chief Conservator of State Forests, and statistics for imports and exports in 1885. Printed material includes:
- '1886. New Zealand. School of Forestry, Pomology, and Agriculture. (Papers Relative to Proposed Organization of)'
- ' 1886. New Zealand. State Forests Department (Progress Report of the)'
-- Cape of Good Hope --
(Ff214-263) Includes papers regarding bark as a packing material, and statistics for 1886. Printed material includes:
- 'Colonial Fruit for Export'
- 'Intercolonial Fruit Trade', 1887
- 'Fruits in syup from the Cape of Good Hope'
- THE EXPORT OF CAPE FRUIT, 1892
- 'Fruit Growing at the Cape', 1892
- 'Fruit Production in the Western Province of the Cape'.
-- Mauritius --
(Ff264-267) Includes printed document:
- John Horne, 'Fruit Growing in Mauritius', 1887.
-- Jamaica --
(Ff268-288) Includes report on fruit cultivation in Jamaica, 1886. |
| Custodial History | Spine of volume is incorrectly labelled 'Misc Reports Melbourne Mueller 1853-1896'. |