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In storing vegetables, a few things need an exceptionally dry and 

 warm place, such as a corner of the attic near the chimney. The stor- 

 age room must be perfectly clean. Get it ready early. Some folks like 

 to provide containers to hold the different fruits or vegetables and so 

 make them easy to handle. Some vegetables demand a free circulation 

 of air about them, while others must be kept barely moist by some 

 packing material. Ordinary cracker boxes and slatted vegetable or 

 Onion crates, each of which holds about a bushel, level full, are 

 cheap, clean and convenient, and can be obtained at any grocery store. 

 The boxes are also excellent for keeping Apples and other fruit, and for 

 packing root crops such as Parsnips, Salsify, Turnips, Beets, Carrots 

 and Winter Radishes in sand or sphagnum moss, and also for packing 

 Celery for Winter. Slatted crates are good for Onions, Squash, Cab- 

 bage, and for handhng Tomatoes, Melons, Egg Plant and so forth, 

 which can be kept for some weeks in a cool place. Directions for storing 

 and harvesting the individual crops are given in paragraphs that 

 follow, but the fuller general information is given in this paragraph 

 on "storage. See also Storage Cellar Diagram and accompanying notes. 



Fertilizers for Fruits and Vegetables 



This subject is fully discussed in a separate chapter, which see. 



Gardening Tools 



One of the first requirements of the gardener is an assortment of 

 tools with which to till the ground. If the garden is very small, what 

 the catalogues list as a "ladies' set," which comprises a hoe, a rake and 

 a fork of good quality, will be found convenient and satisfactory. 

 Garden tools are dealt with in a later chapter. 



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