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ing the uprights, thereby giving a comparatively smooth 

 surface, allowing the baskets to be lifted out or put bark 

 into place in the crates, without catching upon those ad- 

 joining, and upsetting them, as is often the case with the 

 common one. These baskets are made square, conse- 

 quently park very closely together, leaving no vacant 

 spares between them. An excellent basket for Raspber- 

 ries. Made by J. K. Park, Marlboro, Ulster County, N. 

 Y. Price, $3.00 per 100. 



<-oilii< Free I'Vuit Ifiox. 



This box is intended to be given away with the fruit. 

 They arc of an octagon shape, as shown in iig. Ill, made 

 of veneer, and can be sent in Hats and put together by the 

 fruit grower, thus saving much r. \prnsr in transportation. 



Fig. 111. GOTHIC FREE FRUIT BOX. Fig. 112. COOK'S BASKET. 



The material, all ready to be put together, is furnished by 

 F. II. Lumus & Co., the manufacturers, for $10 per U)00. 



This is a very neat and pretty basket, very strong and 

 durable. Some of onr fruit growers object to it on ac- 

 count of the small strips of which it is made, because, as 

 the berries settle, they are injured, by being cut by the 

 sharp edges. It is, however, an excellent basket, and well 

 worthy of the attention of the cultivator of the small 

 fruits. Manufactured by D. Cook, New Haven, Conn. 



