2o8 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



there is one thing in our business that needs revolutionizing, 

 it is that of packing and m-arketing apples. In this section, 

 apples are picked and put into flour barrels just as our grand- 

 fathers did fifty or seventy-five years ago. This will not do in 

 this age. The eye is now educated to seeing nicer things more 

 than when I was a boy. Cleanliness, neatness, attractiveness, and 

 beauty are all vital factors in the sale of fruit of any kind. Half 

 of the apples offered for sale in the markets to-day are really 

 repulsive looking to a large portion of buyers, and not one- 

 quarter of the apples are consumed that should be for good 

 health, or would be consumed, if they were well grown and put 

 up in a tasty and attractive manner. The day for flour barrels to 

 send apples to market in has passed, if we are to derive the most 

 profit from them. Apples should be evenly graded as to size 

 and color, and no apples that are worm-eaten, or inferior in any 

 way, should pass into a box of No. i apples. Selected fruit 

 should be placed carefully in a box holding just one bushel. A 

 clean box made expressly for apples should -be used, lined with 

 white tissue paper (or other colors, as best sets off the color of 

 the apples to be packed), and when the transportation is to be 

 far, like shipping to Europe, each apple should be wrapped in 

 tissue paper, as is done with the best oranges. One bushel of 

 apples thus put up will bring more money than a barrel put up 

 in the ordinary way. This is not all : there will be a much larger 

 amount of apples used than are now used. How many families 

 in our cities will buy a full barrel of apples at one time. It is 

 more than a family might use before many of the apples decay, 

 but if put up attractively in bushel crates or boxes, many a family 

 would have a box of apples sent to them from their grocers, 

 where now they have none. 



Go into any of the grocery or fruit stores and ask for apples, 

 and see what will be shown you. Ask for oranges and you will 

 see them displayed with all the attractiveness possible. That is 

 business. Put up perfect apples in the same way, and display 

 them in the same manner, by the side of oranges, and double the 

 quantity of apples will be sold, to that of oranges. The second 

 class apples can be put up in the same way and sold, of course, 

 at less price. 



Next we must have a proper place for keeping the apples after 

 picking them until ready for market. House or barn cellars, 



