APPLIANCES FOR GARDEN AND ORCHARD. 



easily. The cage of the picker should be large enough to 

 contain the largest apple, and enough wires may be 

 attached to hold the smallest. The jaws should not be 

 over one-eighth of an inch thick, flattened on the inside, 

 to prevent bruising the ripe fruit. They maybe wrapped 

 with cloth, if thought necessary. 



A cheap and simple picker may be made by bending a 



Fig. 209. 



Fig. 211, 



stiff wire into the form of a circle six inches in diameter, 

 with one side of the circle prolonged three inches into a 

 V-shaped projection. Upon this wire sew a cloth bag a 

 foot or so deep, and fasten it on to a pole by the end 

 opposite the V-shaped extremity. This V-shaped projec- 

 tion will serve as a corner, in which to catch the apple 

 and pull it off, allowing it to fall into the bag. An excel- 



