Grading the Fruit 



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the same may be true of tree-fruits that have been well 

 grown and rigorously thinned. In most cases, however, 

 tree-fruits are made into three grades, the third grade 

 being known as 

 culls. Persons who 

 sort their fruit as 

 carefully as our 

 definition requires 

 will do well to desig- 

 nate the first 

 grade by some spe- 

 cial name or mark, 

 as "Selected," 

 "First Choice," and 

 the like, to distin- 

 guish it from the 

 common type of so- 

 called first-class 

 fruit. In such 

 thorough sorting, 

 four grades are 

 often necessary 

 properly to present 

 the fruit to the 

 various types of con- 

 sumers. It should 

 be remarked, how- 

 ever, that the better the fruit as it hangs on the tree or 

 vine, the fewer will be the grades in the packing-house. 



The packing of fruit, therefore, comprises two rather 

 distinct elements, the sorting or grading (which has now 

 been considered), and the placing of the fruits in the final 

 receptacles, or packing proper, to which we now proceed. 



FIG. 149. Various types of fruit packages. 



