September, 191 1 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



British Columbia Apple Packs 



R. M. Winslow, Vucoarer, B.C., Proy. Horticnltaritt 



The four accompanying illustrations 

 furnish an idea of a number of the most 

 common commercial packs of apples 

 used in British Columbia, which has be- 

 come noted for the high quality of its 

 boxed fruit. They are not intended to 

 show prize-winning or exhibition fruit, 

 but simply to illustrate the different 

 packs. 



Illustration number one shows the 

 common three and a half tier packs. The 

 box on the left contains seventy-two 

 apples, packed two and two with 

 five apples in two longitudinal rows and 

 four in the other two. This pack is, 

 therefore, styled a two and two, four and 

 five, seventy-two. The centre pack is 

 exactly the same, but the longitudinal 

 rows are five and five. This gives eight 

 apples more to the box, making a total 

 of eighty. The pack is styled two and 

 two, five and five, eighty. In the pack 

 to the right, two of the rows have six 

 apples instead of five, giving an addi- 

 tional increase of eight apples, making 

 eighty-eight. This is the largest pack 

 styled three and a half tier. 



The box to the right in illustration 

 number two is one size smaller than that 

 of the eighty-eight in number one. It 

 therefore contains ninety-six apples, run- 

 ning two and two, six and six. The 

 apples in the centre box are again one 

 size smaller, and run therefore two and 

 two, six and seven, containing one hun- 

 dred and four. The apples in the left 

 box run still one size smaller, with seven 

 in each longitudinal row. The pack is 

 therefore a two and two, seven and 

 seven, one hundred and twelve. 



The box on the right, it will be noted, 

 shows a very neatly finished wrap, which 

 will open out, giving the best impres- 

 sion. The shiny appearance of the paper 

 [.results from putting the smooth side 

 outwards. This should always be done. 

 The two and two, seven and seven, one 

 hundred and twelve, is a usual and de- 

 Birable size in dry belt apples. The car- 

 load of Jonathans which won sweep- 

 ptakes at the National Apple Show in 

 ■Vancouver was very largely this size. 

 The packs in figure two are all styled 

 pFour tier. 



The packs on the right and left in 

 figure number three are the famous two 

 and three open packs, containing one 

 Nndred and thirteen and one hundred 

 Bnd twenty-five apples respectively. 

 rhese packs are displacing the straight 

 lour tier one hundred and twelve and 

 3ne hundred and twenty-eight to the box 

 pack throughout the entire west. They 

 contain practically the same number of 

 apples, and while some objection is 

 raised over their open appearance, this 

 IS not so serious with wrapped fruit as 

 with unwrapped, and the carrying 



quality of the fruit is much superior. 

 Both of these two and three packs have 



five layers of apples, 

 four tier because of 



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but they are styled 

 the number. That 



nmon Three and a Half Tier Packs. -Fig. 1. 



Variations of the Two and Two, Four Tier Packs.— Fig. 2. 



Variations of the Famous Two and Three Open Pack.— Fig. 3. 



