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The Principles of Fruit-growing. 



must come to be true of many of the better kinds 

 of agricultural products. 



In the fanciest fruits, like the best dessert pears, 

 and even some of the largest and finest strawberries, 

 it is often profitable to .ship in cases something like 



Fig. 98. Novel packages found 



New York niarkt 



those used for eggs, in which each individual fruit 

 has a compartment or receptacle of its own. If, in 

 addition, the fruit is carefully wrapped in these com- 

 partments, the very finest type of packing will result. 

 To one who has not followed the market closely, all 

 these suggestions will seem to be expensive and un- 

 profitable ; and this is certainly true of everything 



