FRUIT HARVESTING OPERATIONS 3 



picker, who is not familiar with the fruit as a rule, will 

 not be able to tell when the seeds are mature. 



Some varieties have seeds that are very dark when 

 the picking time arrives, other kinds have white or 

 slightly colored seeds, and to use these as a guide, one 

 would need to be familiar with all of the different kinds 

 of fruit. Also, in regard to the color of the fruit: it 

 has often been said that red fruit should get a high 



Fig. 2. HARVESTING PEACHES IN GEORGIA 



color before harvesting. This is true only in a general 

 way, because a fruit that is highly colored in one sec- 

 tion of the country may be more or less lacking in color 

 in others. Take, for example, the common Baldwin; in 

 the north this is a very highly colored fruit, but as you 

 go south into the warmer states, it becomes almost a 

 green apple. 



