SMALL FRUIT CULTURE, 615 



This box was invented for the purpose of relieving fruic 

 growers of one of the most annoying incidents — of sending their 

 fruit a long distance to market — the necessity of having their 

 orates and boxes returned to them. It supplies a want which 

 has always existed in the berry trade, and will be sold so cheap 

 that it can be given away with the fruit. In appearance it is 

 remarkably neat, light, but substantial, while the fruit will al- 

 ways go to market in a perfectly clean box. Though given away 

 it will save the grower money, 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 de.ay of returning 

 them. 



The box is composed of two pieces of veneer. Figure 1 

 represents a piece which is folded up into four sides uf the box. 

 It is scored or cut at the dotted lines, so that it c^n be folded up 

 into a shell as readily as a piece of pasteboard. The tongue at 

 the left hand end buckles into the two slots at the right hand 

 end, just like closing a pocket book. A notch on the end of 

 the tongue catches so effectually, after being buckled in, as to 

 bold the shell firmly together. 



The bottom is shown at Figure 2. The two tongues at the 

 end are also scored or cut at the dotted lines, and being readily 

 turned up, are buckled into the two sets of slots shown on the 

 lower edge of Figure 1. When thus buckled together, the two 

 pieces form a perfect box, as seen in Figure 3, neither nails nor 

 glue being required, and the whole constituting a strong and 

 beautiful box. The bottom being inserted from above, rests 

 upon the strip between the two bottom slots, and cannot possibly 

 fall out. The prominent advantages secured by the use of this 

 box are as follows : 



1. The great desideratum of a box always nice and clean. 



