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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



The Apple Box 



LINUS WOOL.VERTON, GRIMSBY, ONT. 



I was among the fii-st apple growers in Canada 

 to use the box instead of the barrel, having be- 

 gun to use them for fancy graded apples wrap- 

 ped in i>aper, 12 or 15 years ago. Every year I 

 have been using them more and more freely, 

 some seasons exporting from my own orchard 

 eev^eral thousand boxes. At first I used a box 

 meas'uring outside 12 x 12 x 24, sending it not 

 only to the British market but also to Australia. 

 Mr. J. iS. Larke, Canadian commercial agent, 

 took much interest in the experimental ship- 

 memt, which went by way of Vancooiver, at a 

 through i-ate of $1 per box. These apples suf- 

 fered from the heat of the tropics en route, but 

 those arriving in prime condition sold for $3.75 

 a box. They were shipped early in November, 

 and arrived at iSydney before the earliest Tas- 

 mania apples were ripe. Finding this size to 

 be larger tha.n most boxes used in the British 

 miarkets, I adopted the smaller box, measuring 

 inside 9 x 12 x 18, a fine little box for packing 

 and for display, but this proved too small, tak- 

 ing four to the barrel. 



GEO. VIPOND & CO. 



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 MONTREAL 



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I was a member of the committee of the On- 

 tario Fruit Growers' Association, appointed at 

 Walkerton to consider the best sized ibox to be 

 used throughout the Dominion. We concluded first 

 that a capacity of about one bushel was mos't 

 desirable, (being a measure universally adopted 

 already, and considering the average size of the 

 apples to be packed as No. 1 grade, we con- 

 cluded that an inside measurement of 10 x 11 x 

 20 inches would be the most convenient. 



Last year I used several thousand boxes of 

 this size for export to Glasgow market. I found 

 that the apples packed well In it, each layer tak- 

 ing about four apples wide and seven apples 

 long, and four deep, or about 112 apples in all. 

 If the apples were larger, as the Kings for 

 example, the box would only take three layers 

 deep. 



It is of the utmost importance that we should 

 reach uniformity in the use of boxes, for so long 



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