THE FRUIT PACKAGE 



8l 



package, the "six-basket carrier," has been coming 

 into vogue. 



The Delaware basket is in the form of the inverted 

 frustum of a cone. It is made of wood splints, and 

 sometimes has a splint 

 cover. At other times 

 the package is covered 

 simply with mosquito 

 netting or other cloth. 

 This is more often the 

 case when this basket is 

 used for sweet potatoes, 

 Irish potatoes, spinach, 

 and other vegetables, as 

 it frequently is. The 

 Delaware basket comes 

 in various sizes, one 

 bushel, one-third bushel, 

 and half bushel, with 

 various ' ' short ' ' sizes 

 between. In New Jersey 



the size of this package has been the subject of 

 legislation.* 



The splint star cover, as shown in Fig. 24, is 

 sometimes used for this basket, but not commonly, in 

 shipping peaches from Maryland, Delaware, and New 

 Jersey. 



The Michigan peach basket, which is essentially 

 the same as the Georgia peach basket, is shown in 

 Fig. 25. This is much like the standard grape basket, 

 the chief difference being in the matter of the cover. 



* See Appendix. 



KIG. 24 — WIDE SLAT DELAWARE 

 BASKET WITH SPLINT COVER 



