Pip Fruits: Apples 



is given to picking the fruit care- 

 fully, and storing it properly; the 

 result is a considerable loss on the 

 crop, when a profit might have 

 been the result. 



It has been demonstrated over 

 and over again that British apples, 

 properly cared for, will keep well 

 until the April and May following 

 the season of picking. But this 

 desirable result cannot be achieved 

 by picking the fruit roughly and 

 throwing it in heaps on to a barn 

 or shed floor covered with a slight 



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layer of straw. The bruises caused 

 by rough handling and treatment 

 soon cause decay to set in, and 

 one bad apple will soon infect others 

 if not taken away. 



The illustrations show an ex- 

 terior view (fig. 334) of Bunyard's 

 fruit room, and an interior view 

 of the same (fig. 335). This fruit 

 room is 30 ft. long, 12 ft. wide, and 

 will hold 300 bus. of apples. The 

 cost is about 30, which may be 

 spread over say twenty or thirty 

 years not an expensive item even 

 considered from a market gar- 

 dener's point of view. Indeed, 

 many market growers already 

 have fine cool sheds or barns that 

 could be readily converted into a 

 fruit room, and the cost would 

 probably be repaid the first or 

 second season. 



From the interior view it will 

 be seen that shelves, 3 to 4 ft. wide, 

 run down each side, and are divided 

 from the central range by a path- 

 way. Wooden battens, about 3 in. 

 wide, are used, and about J in. of 

 space is left between them to per- 

 mit of free circulation of air. The 

 fruits are placed in a single layer 



on the shelves, and these may be 

 VOL. III. 



2'. 6" 



4' 



PATH 

 2'. 6" 



PATH 

 2'. 6" 



SECTION. - 



GROUND PLAN. 



Fig. 336. Section and Ground Plan of Fruit Room 

 at Foxbury 



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