320 THE PEACH, &C. 



SELECT NECTARINES. 



Golden Cling, Boston, 



Downton (free-stone), Elruge, 



Hardwicke, Hunt's Tawry. 



SELECT FIGS. 



Celestial, Golden, 



Lemon, Brunswick, 



Brown Turkey, White Marseilles. 



No kind of insects depredate on this delicious fruit. 



SELECT CHERRIES. 



May Duke, Early Richmond, 



Belle de Choisy, Black Tartarian, 



Belle d' Orleans, Conestoga. 



PEACH BASKETS AND CRATES. 



Peach Baskets specially adapted to shipping peaches, to- 

 matoes, and other delicate fruit long distances, may be obtained 

 with or without crates, of the American Basket Company, 

 New Britain, Connecticut, or of the Beeclier Basket Company, 

 Westville, Connecticut, who are equally reliable, or of any 

 other companies, most of whom have agencies all through the 

 South for the sale of their crates and baskets. There may be 

 also Southern establishments for their manufacture and sale. 



These baskets are cheap enough to give away, and are so 

 constructed as to carry the fruit with the least possible injury. 

 They are smooth on the bottom and sides, and have no sharp, 

 cutting edges like ordinary splint baskets, or like the common 

 slat crates (we are speaking more particularly of American 

 companies' baskets), and they cost less than either. They are 

 made of strong white wood, put together with annealed and 

 clinched nails, and corner irons; and are so arranged that the 

 fruit cannot be misplaced or stolen. The packages are suflfi- 

 ciently ventilated to secure the fruit from fermentation, and 

 are not so open as to expose it to sand or dust. They are 



