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ling to keep well. So important do cold-storage men regard 

 this that they prefer to purchase the fruit on the trees and im- 

 port their own help that they may feel sure the fruit is to be 

 handled right. This is true of apples. If it is true with them, 

 it is vastly more important that peaches, plums, and the other 

 more delicate fruits be given equal consideration. Many patent 

 picking devices have been placed upon the market, but other 

 than to pick the stray apjDle or fruit out of reach they are of 

 little value. 



Fruit growers are following the practice more and more of 

 lessening the time between picking and getting the fruit on the 

 market. If apples are to go into cold storage, 1 they are picked 

 and shipped at once, as in this way the decaying germs do not 

 have time to get established. Peaches that go direct to the 

 market and are sold in their fresh condition are what people 

 want. Grapes, well ripened and freshly picked from the vines, 

 are far superior to those shipped from long distances, and can 

 always be made to command the market, if well grown. 



Methods of packing might be discussed, but hardly come 

 under the head of care of the orchard. Suffice it to say that 

 thoughtfulness and neatness in tastefully packing fruit meet 

 with success in proportion to the result attained. 



(9) How to Keep up Interest. 



There is little use in trying to do anything in orcharding 

 unless the person engaging in it has well matured and definite 

 ideas of what is necessary for success. Anyone can get enthu- 

 siastic over luscious fruits even from seeing them well illustrated 

 in the average trade catalogue, and especially so when success- 

 ful growers relate their experience and show what the possibili- 

 ties are. To succeed in fruitgrowing requires a sufficient study 

 of fruit problems to at least comprehend what the essentials for 

 success are for the crops to be grown. Bulletin No. 105 of this 

 Station, "Fruit Growing with a Selected List of Varieties for 

 New Hampshire," together with this bulletin, should give one a 

 comprehensive idea of what the requirements for success are. 

 If these ideas are supplemented by other reading of which there 

 is any quantity to be had, one's interest can be kept up, pro- 

 vided one has the instincts for success to begin with. We must 

 not look only at the commercial side either, for while this is- 



1 See Bulletin, No. 93, " Cold Storage of Apples," N. H. Expt. Station. 



