8(5 VEGETABLE GROWING IN NEW SOUTH WALES. 



When packing, the fruit should be graded according to size and ripeness, 

 all in each package being as near alike as possible. The grading should be 

 as follows : 



1. Large ripe fruit. 



2. Small ripe fruit. 



3. Large medium ripe. 



, 4. Small medium ripe. 

 . 5. Large green fruit. 

 6. Small green fruit. 



The fruit will thus look better, sell better, keep better, and pack or travel 

 better ; the arrangement will be found advantageous to the buyer and more 

 profitable to the seller, besides establishing a reputation for the brand 



Trellised Tomato Vines at Hawkesbury Agricultural College. 



amongst buyers. Each package must have the contents and quality faith- 

 fully marked on the outside, so that buyers may learn to rely on the brands 

 without wanting to overhaul the fruit. 



Culls should not be marketed, but fed to pigs or destroyed, as is done with 

 other refuse fruit. 



Varieties. 



There are several -good varieties from which the grower can make his 

 selection. Sparks' Earliana is an excellent early tomato that has done well 

 where the vines are trellised. Chalk's Early Jewel is favoured by some 

 growers for the early crop. Bur wood Prize, which shelters its fruit beneath 

 abundant foliage, is largely grown in the Hawkesbury district under field 

 conditions for the purposes of the sauce-making trade. Dwarf Champion is 



