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dinal leno I No wonder the dealers 

 ■write, " They sell like hot cakes." 



This basket, the cut of which has 

 been kindly loaned us by Mr. W. B. 

 Chisholm, of Oakville, is now largely 

 used for cherries, currants, gooseberries, 

 apples, pears, and plums, as well as for 

 peaches. Of course, if cherries are 

 very soft, they had better be turned 

 out into strawberry baskets and so 

 packed ; but if firm, they will be most 

 marketable in the twelve-quart basket. 



The conditionof cherries depend veiy 

 much upon the picker. The first im- 

 pulse with many {jickers is to grab the 

 fruit it.self by handfuls, with the idea 

 that it would take too long to handle 

 them by the stems. But really it does 

 not take any longer for a skilful hand. 

 A trained picker, with a good ladder, 

 basket and hook, will gather from 60 

 to 100 quarts a day, and never handle 

 the cherries except by the stems. 

 Thus gathered they will present a clean, 

 fresh appearance, when [daced upon the 

 market. 



The tidiest way of addressing these 

 baskets is with a slip of paper, on which 

 is printed boldly the name of the con- 

 signor, and of the consignee, placed 

 under the leno covering ; but where they 

 go to many different consignees, a tag 

 tied on the handle is the simplest 

 method. 



For pears, apples, and tomatoes, a 

 handy box is manufactured by A. C. 



BUSHEL BOX FOR APPLES, PEAP^, TOMA- 

 TOES, ETC. 



Rice ik Co., Sarnia, in either one-third, 

 one-half- or one bushel size, which is 



very servicable, especially for choice 

 fruit which is going to distant markets. 

 Tomatoes come up in this kind of a box 

 from Illinois into Toronto market, and 

 some seem to think that very choice 

 apples for foreign shipments might be 

 put up in it. 

 For 



MARKETING GRAPES 



various shapes and sizes of baskets and 

 boxes have been made, each claiming 

 the precedency, but now that this fruit 

 is grown so extensively and the market 

 price is so low, it scarcely pays to pack 

 them in small baskets or boxes. For 

 very choice assorted lots for table use, 

 it does perhaps 

 pay the grower to 

 use the ten pound 

 grape basket, but 

 tor the bulk of 

 the crop nothing 

 lo-LB. GRAPE BASKET. Can supcrcede the 

 the sixteen-quart grape basket, which 



16-QT. GRAPE BASKET. 



holds about twenty pounds of grapes. 

 Covered with blue leno, it shows off" the 

 fruit to the veiy best advantage. 



All these baskets are sold with the 

 fiuit, and are seldom returned to the 

 shipper. We notice that the Delaware 

 and Maryland peach growers still use 

 an expensive basket, and are insisting 

 upon their return. They have even 

 resolved in convention to ship only to 

 such commission merchants as will 

 agree either to return the baskets, or 

 to forfeit five cents for each one tha 

 is missing. All this brings endless 

 trouble on the wholesaler and retailer. 



