PEACHES 



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receptacles, and no good apples were ever put into these baskets. 

 There is a third class of package for apples which is just now 

 coming into prominence and which is bound to become of more 

 and more importance. That is the small retail package holding 

 from a few quarts up to perhaps half a bushel. These packages 

 are principally of two types, either baskets or cartons. They have 

 the advantages from the standpoint of the consumer, that they 

 can be carried easily in the hand, that they keep the fruit in 

 good condition and tliat they hold so little fruit that the ques- 

 tion of storage is not important. They thus obviate the greatest 

 difficulty which is experienced with the barrel, and even with 

 the box, namely that the ordinary household cannot use all the 

 apples before they begin to decay. 



Fig. 124. — An attractive face to n barml of apples. Such a barrel of apples is sure to 

 attract attention, and it the middle i.s as good as the face it is sure to malce friends. 



For pears we have almost the same packages as for apples, 

 except that they are shipped quite largely in half barrels instead 

 of in barrels, and that the pear box is of a different size from 

 the apple box, being 18 x IIV2 ^ ^^2 inches inside measure. 



Peaches are shipped principally in three types of packages: 

 The Delaware peach basket, holding from 5 quarts to 16 quarts, 

 usually in the latter size ; the Georgia six-basket carrier ; and the 

 climax peach basket, a relatively new package. One of the 

 climax baskets is shown, filled with apples, in Figure 145. It 

 has the advantage of being a small package which is quite rigid 

 so as to protect the fruit well. It also packs well into cars. 



