THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



ports were, that they arrived in perfect 

 condition. I have also shipped to some 

 commission houses in GlasgoWj London 

 and Liverpool, but these shipments, 

 after slacks, wet, very wet, samples, and 

 other various charges, have been paid, I 

 am sorry to say have not done so well. 

 T pick my apples and put them in bar- 

 rels and they are all brought in under 

 cover every night and the packing is all 

 done inside. This leaves all cull stock 

 in one place not scattered all over the 

 orchard." 



Mr. Pay certainly follows an excellent 

 system in gathering and packing his 

 apples. But in cases of very heavy 



crops it is a great undertaking to carry 

 all the apples to a packing house ; and 

 we have taken out our packing table 

 into the orchard where the trees are 

 heaviest laden, and had the pickers 

 empty their baskets upon it. One man 

 with one or two assistants will in this 

 way pack forty or fifty baskets a 

 day, keeping four or five pickers 

 busy. We give a cut of our packing 

 table, which holds about two barrels of 

 apples, and is so inclined toward the 

 opening that the fruit rolls toward the 

 packer, and this much facilitates his 

 work. 



Fig. 1543— Packing Table. 



AN EXPERIMENT WITH RASPBERRIES. 



n YEAR ago last spring I turned 

 /k\ ""^^^ ^ heavy sod and planted 

 ITu corn, keeping it thoroughly culti- 

 vated and not allowing a weed 

 or any grass to grow. Last spring I 

 cross-plowed the field, taking pains to 

 turn every furrow over, not cutting and 

 covering, as is so common among some 

 people. Then I pulverized the ground 

 with pulverizing* harrow until it became 

 suitable for gardening. Then with a 

 marker made of hardwood, 4x4, suffi- 

 ciently long to make two rows at a time, 

 by bolting standards two feet long and 

 four feet apart, I marked the field out 



one way. Then I began taking up my 

 plants and setting them out in rows the 

 other way, seven feet apart, using a line, 

 and taking pains to have the rows 

 straight both ways. 



In setting out I used a spade, dig- 

 ging a hole sufficiently large so as to 

 spread the roots out in their natural 

 position, then filling in around the plant 

 with fresh, mellow earth, packing it 

 around the plant with the foot. 



In taking up the plants, I selected 

 good thrifty ones of the previous year's 

 growth, and only took up a small quan- 

 tity at a time, cutting them back to 



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