262 SMALL FRUIT CULTURIST. 



enable him to get a better price for his fruit, and put 

 an end to the annual loss of boxes, besides saving him 

 the necessity of keeping a vast quantity of the boxes and 

 crates on hand to provide for the delay of returning them. 

 The box is composed of two pieces of veneer. Figure 

 108 represents a piece which is folded up into four sides of 

 the box. It is scored or cut at the dotted lines, so that it 

 can be folded up into a shell as readily as a piece of paste- 

 board. The tongue at the left hand end, buckles into the 

 two slots at the right hand end, just like closing a poeke; 

 book. A notch on the end of the tongue catches so effec- 

 tually, after being buckled in, as to hold the shell firmly 

 together. 



The bottom is shown in figure 109. The two tongues at 

 the end are also scored or cut at the dotted lines, and be- 

 ing readily turned up, are buckled into the two sets of 



slots shown on 

 the left hand 

 '. edge of figure 

 j 108. When thus 

 / buckled togeth- 

 er, the two pieces 

 form a perfect 



Fig. 109. BOTTOM OF BOX. box, US SCCU in 



figure 107, neither nails nor glue being required, and 

 the whole constituting a strong and beautiful box. The 

 bottom cannot fall out, as it is held firmly in its place by 

 the spring of the wood. The prominent advantages se- 

 cured by the use of this box are as follows : 



1. The great desideratum of a box always nice and 

 cleanly is, for the first time, secured. 



2. The commission agent being relieved from the great 

 annoyance of hunting up and returning crates and boxes, 

 as well as escaping the loss of them, will sell the fruit for 

 much less than the usual commission. 



3. The return freight of empty boxes is saved, and this, 





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