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other mode of keeping small quantities is to 

 suspend them from hoops in the manner shown 

 in Fig. 143. The hoops are provided with 

 small wire hooks, from which the bunches are 

 suspended with the stem end down. On a large 

 scale, a frame is made resembling an arbor, 

 from which the grapes are suspended as shown 

 in Fig. 144. By multiplying the cross pieces, 

 large quantities may be keDt in this way. 



Fig. 144. 



In house rooms, under the conditions hereto- 

 fore named, grapes may be kept in a closet, or 

 in a bureau drawer. Clean white paper should 

 be spread on the bottom, and the bunches 

 placed on the paper singly, so that they do not 

 touch each other. The drawer should be kept 

 partly open till the weather gets cold, when it 



