1 86 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



talk this morning is to discuss briefly with you the varieties we 

 may pack in the box and to place before you such information 

 regarding the box, packs, and packing as you would need to 

 put up a first-class box pack. I wish also to discuss briefly 

 better packing for our barrels. 



The first question which comes to us as we approach the 

 problem is: What varieties shall we pack in the box? Let 

 us analyze this question from the standpoint of the market, 

 that is, how and by whom are our apples consumed? Keep \n 

 mind now the varieties which we grow. A large part, the 

 larger part, perhaps, of our apples are used for cooking pur- 

 poses — Rhode Island Greenings, Ben Davis, Baldwin, and the 

 like. For such varieties the barrel, which we now use, is well 

 adapted. There is no need of a fancy package. 



We are, however, growing a large number of high quality 

 varieties for dessert and eating purposes. For such varieties 

 the box is admirably adapted and I believe should be used 

 more widely. As a matter of fact, the barrel is not well adapted 

 to such varieties. In the first place, it is too kirge, and in the 

 second place, it is not adapted to careful packing, on account 

 of which too many of our apples are bruised. The box is a 

 much better size, and adapts itself economically to careful and 

 fancy packing. For this pack we would use such as the 

 Northern Spy, Mcintosh, Fameuse, Esopus, Spitzenberg, 

 Twenty Ounce, Wagener, Yellow Newtown, Jonathan and the 

 like. Some varieties might be packed in either the box or the 

 barrel, according to the market. The Baldwin, for example, 

 would be such a variety. The King might also be mentioned 

 here. We should not, however, for the reputation of our 

 boxed product, in the beginning, at least, box such varieties 

 as Ben Davis, Gano and the like. Some of our growers, I 

 regret to state, have been putting such varieties into the box. 



I wish here to correct an erroneous impression which 

 seems to prevail in regard to boxed fruit. Some of our 

 growers think that, in order to get a good grade of apples for 

 boxing, it is necessary to sort out the fancy specimens of a 

 variety, thus depreciating the value of the rest, which we pack 



