PREPARATION FOR GATHERING FRUIT. 



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Cook's Basket. 



This is a very neat and pretty basket, very strong 

 durable. Some of our fruit grow- 

 ers object to it on account of the 

 small strips of which it is made, be- 

 cause, as the berries settle, they are 

 injured, by being cut by the sharp 

 edges. It is, however, an excellent 

 basket, but probably on account of 

 its cost is seldom, of late years, 

 Been in our markets. Fi & 118. COOK'S BASKET. 



The Paragon Basket. 



Figure 119. Another neat, light box, of more recent 

 introduction than the above, and much liked by the com- 

 mission men. Three strips of thin whitewood form the 

 bottom and sides of the basket ; the bottom hoop is dis* 



Fig. 119. PARAGON BASKET. 



pensed with, as well as the extra bottom piece. There is 

 ample provision for ventilation, and the shape of the top 

 is round, thus enabling the fruit to show at its best. 



Belgian Strawberry Basket. 



This basket, figure 120, would probably not suit our 

 American way of doing things, and is merely introduced 

 to show "how they do it in Belgium." A correspondent 

 of the " American Agriculturist," from which the ac- 



