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SMALL FKUIT CULTURIST. 



glue, they can be sent to distant growers, in the shape of 

 flats, to be made up by children at odd times during the 

 winter. The flats are scored ready for folding up, and as 

 tbQ wood bends at the joint without breaking, a small 



girl will learn in five min- 

 utes how to put them to- 

 gether. Many hundred box- 

 es thus packed as flats can 

 be got into a small com- 

 pass, and at trifling cost of 

 freight." 



Square Chip Basket. 



Figure 116. Here we have 

 an improvement on the 

 Fig. 116. SQUARE CHIP BASKET, common JeYSQj basket. The 

 slats are reversed, the wide one passing around the basket, 

 and the small ones forming the uprights, thereby giving 

 a comparatively smooth surface, allowing the baskets to 

 be lifted out or put back into place in the crates, without 

 catching upon those adjoining, and upsetting them, as is 

 often the case with the common one. These baskets are 

 made square, consequently packed very closely together, 

 leaving no vacant spaces between them. An excellent 

 basket for Kaspberries. 



Gothic Free Fruit Box. 



This box is intended to be given 

 away with the fruit. They are of 

 an octagon shape, as shown in 

 figure 117, made of veneer, and 

 can be sent in flats and put to- 

 gether by the fruit grower, thus 

 saving much expense in trans- 

 portation. The material, all ready to be put together, 

 costs ten dollars per thousand. 



Fig. 117. GOTHIC FREE 

 FRUIT BOX. 



