The Canadian Horticulturist. 



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SELECTION OF APPLES; PACKING. 



N sending apples to England, the only way in which they 

 can be secured from bruising is to pack them in proper 

 boxes. Most of our Quebec apples are too tender in flesh 

 and skin to stand packing in barrels without bruising. 

 The Fameuse, Wealthy, Winter St. Lawrence, Mcintosh 

 Red, etc., may be classed as late autumn and early winter 

 fruit, and are in perfect order for the table between the ist November and the 

 middle of December. It is a vital error to pack such apples in barrels, for it is 

 certain that when they arrive in England they will be found to be bruised or 

 crushed. 



In barrels, apples will hardly stand even a short journey, unless they be 

 packed very tightly and the tops and bottoms of the barrels be pressed so firmly 

 into the fruit that there be no rattling about ; on the other hand, our tender 

 apples cannot be packed in this way without getting crushed, and even the 

 slightest bruise will soon cause rotting. For the last ten years 1 have adopted 

 a patented box that has given me perfect satisfaction : see engraving. (Fig. 980). 



Fig. 980. — Patented Box for Fruit. 



In these boxes we even succeeded in sending Duchess apples in perfect 

 order, last season, to Liverpool and Edinburgh. Autumn St. Lawrence, too, 

 arrived in England in capital condition ; but as this variety was not known 

 there, and the color did not please the English, my agent did not return me 



