KEEPING AND STORING. 



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very cold -weather, the boxes can be piled so as to allow 

 the remaining moisture to escape through a crevice about the 

 width of a knife-blade. Before packing, each bunch should 

 be examined and all injured, cracked, and rotten berries 

 removed with suitable scissors. If two layers are packed in 

 a box, a sheet of paper should intervene. The boxes must 

 be kept in a cool, dry room or passage, at an even tempera- 

 ture. If the thermometer goes much below freezing-point, 

 a blanket or newspaper can be thrown over them, to be re- 

 moved in mild weather. Looking over them once in the 

 winter and removing defective berries will suffice, the 

 poorest keepers being placed accessible. Under this treat- 

 ment the best keepers will be in good edible order as late as 

 February, after which they deteriorate. 



The following is a list of grapes worth noticing, that have 

 been tested for keeping : 



