A FRUIT PACKING HOUSE. 



An offer was made the teachers of the High 

 and Public School that prizes, of the value of 

 $3, ?2, and §1 would be given bj- your Soci- 

 ety for the best essay on some subject relating 

 to horticulture. The reply received by your 

 Secretary was that owing to the schools hav- 

 ing been closed for a time through an epide- 

 mic of measles they regretted having to decline 

 the proposal, as the time necesstry for pre- 

 paring for the exanninations would not be 

 sufficient. 



The flower bed in King's Ward Park has 

 been filled with the bulbs from the cemetery 

 for spring flowering and tulips only in assorted 

 sections substituted in the cemetery. Our 

 display of spring flowering bulbs in this place, 

 held so sacred by many of us, has encouraged 

 the Cemetery Committee of the Town Council 

 to fill two other beds with crocus snowdrops 

 and tulips, and possibly next season they will 

 not object to assume the whole display and 



thus relieve us of this source of. expenditure, 

 and in this way give us an opportunity of 

 expending our money in other directions. 



Your Secretary was invited to attend a 

 meeting of the Directors of the Jsoith Brant 

 Agricultural Society, and when aisked to ad- 

 drtss them stated the desire of the Paris Hor- 

 ticultural Society was to work harmoniously 

 with them, believing there was work to be 

 done by a separate institution of this kind not 

 in their line exactly and j^et recogniz d by 

 the Agricultural and Art:j Act. An attentive 

 hearing was given and many questions asked : 

 the assurance being given that their desire 

 was to work together courteously and har- 

 moniously. 



All of which is respectfully eubmitted, 



C. H. Roberts, 



vSecretary. 

 Paris, January 12th, 189S. 



A FRUIT PACKING HOUSE. 



Mow that we are likely to open 

 up an important export trade 

 in Canadian fruit, a suitable 

 packing house is an important 

 consideration. Mr. Theoron Woolver- 

 ton, who is near Riverside, California, 

 harvesting his crop of oranges there, 

 writes : — " I have been unable to get the 

 proper plans of an orange packing house, 



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Fig. 1294.— Plan of Fkpit Packing House. 



but there are no special features beyond 

 those of room and light. I enclose you 

 a rough sketch of ground plan. 



Packing house floor on a level with 

 cars and about level with wagon plat- 

 forms, length of packing house i6o ft., 

 width 8o ft., grader about the centre of 

 the house, windows numerous and sev- 

 eral large skylights in the roof. The 

 rear compartment is for 

 boxes and box material 

 with two windows or rather 

 doors for loading on to the 

 wagons. The covered plat- 

 form extends the entire 

 length of the packing 

 house on the railroad side 

 and entire width on the 

 receiving side, large scales 

 just inside the receiving 

 door. 



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