Boxing Grapefruit


Boxing grapefruit in modern plant, Manatee River District, Fla. Grapefruit grows on trees from twenty to thirty feet high. The trees are tropical and subtropical plants. They were first found in the Malayan and Polynesian islands. Many are grown in India and in several other foreigh countries. In our own country Florida grows the greatest number of these fruit trees. The Rio Grande Valley in Texas and the Imperial Valley in California also produce grapefruit. The fruit grows in clusters like bunches of grapes and so was named "grapefruit." The fruit is somewhat like the orange and lemon, but is much larger, heavier, and has more juice. Grapefruit is much enjoyed as a breakfast fruit and is valuable as a food because it sharpens the appetite and because it contains vitamins. Then the grapefruit reach a packing room like the one you see in this picture, they are dull colored and have brown spots on them. They are first thoroughly cleaned. Then endless belts carry them to machines that sort out the sizes suitable to be sent to market. These machines drop the fruit into those trays beside the packers. The women are wrapping and packing the fruit. Each grapefruit is wrapped in a thin paper stamped with the name of the shipper, or the name of the district in which the fruit grew. When you next buy grapefruit try to find out from what state it came. Trace its journey to your town.

Photographer:	Unknown	Date:	Unknown
Publisher & City:	Keystone View Company: Meadville, Pa., New York, NY., Chicago, Ill., London, England
Series & Number:	26718

Scan courtesy of Roy Winkelman. Image retouched and converted to anaglyph in 2005 by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology at the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. View this image using 3D glasses with the red lens over the left eye and the blue lens over the right eye.


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