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spring in good condition are readily purchased at far 

 higher prices, and when they can be kept until the 

 American supply has become exhausted they realize high 

 figures. Hence it is highly desirable that, -where late 

 apples are grown, some proper means should be provided 

 for keeping them until they arrive at their best value. 



What are the conditions required, and how they may 

 be provided, I will now try to explain. The first con- 

 dition is, that they should be inaccessible to frost, except 

 it be occasionally two or three degrees. Secondly, the 



FIG. 18. APPLE STORE. 



temperature should be maintained as equable as possible, 

 and not exposed to any sudden rise or fall. Thirdly, 

 they should not be too dry. Fourthly, some means of 

 ventilation should be provided when required. 



The easiest and cheapest mode] of accommodation must 

 of course depend upon the resources that each grower has 

 at hand; but the needful conditions are more easily and 

 cheaply provided than many imagine. A cave in a chalk 

 bank or a sand-hill makes an admirable apple store, where 



