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Turnips, potatoes and other roots are washed and cleansed until their skins 

 shine. The turnips are trimmed with knives and their tops cut evenly. Then 

 they are graded and packed in their appropriate boxes or barrels. Green, crisp 

 asparagus is evenly cut, packed, tied, and then placed in their boxes so that 

 they will keep and always look fresh. Celery is trimmed, cut, wa!;hed and 

 picked in nice, large bunches, so that it looks fit for the table without any further 

 handling. Some of the vegetables are even tied in bunches with colored cord 

 to give a belter appearance to them. All of this washing, packing and care, 

 proves profitable, and in some cases it enhances the value of the vegetables 

 almost double. Everything sent to market from the garden must either be 

 counted, measured, graded, sorted, trimmed, washed and polished until they 

 have a most presentable appearance. This part of the work is generally 

 neglected, but is a most important one. — Albany Journal. 



PACKING VEGETABLES. 



R. E. P. KE R BY, of Massachusetts, writing in ^W(fr/crt« G^rtr^(?«, 

 ^* advises packing tomatoes in boxes, the tops being nicely faced. 

 His plan is knock off the bottom, set the box on a level surface, 

 and then lay the fruit in the box, smooth side down. After plac- 

 ing two layers thus, the remainder are thrown in promiscuously 

 and the bottom then nailed on. The red tomatoes he finds most 

 ^ salable. The Boston market is ten days earlier than any 



other. It is not a smooth sort, and, therefore, it is not favored when the Emery, 

 Livingston's Perfection and Dwarf Champion come into the market. 



In celery the Paris Golden is selected as the best early variety, and the 

 Boston Market as the best late variety. This latter is less liable to blight, if, 

 allowed to perfect its growth late in the season. The celery is sold in long 

 barrel boxes, holding three dozen bunches. 



Of melons the most popular sweet variety is the Arlington Nutmeg, which has 

 a green flesh, but of late years this variety spotted badly except on new soils. 

 The American Gem is less liable to spot and is now grown in a limited quantity 

 it is luscious in quality with salmon colored flesh, but is not yet widely known. 

 The melons are sold in both bushel barrels and boxes, the former being the 

 most popular, " eighteen to the bushel box " gives some idea of the popular 

 size for melons in this market. 



Asparagus is done u]) in bunches of one pound each, and exposed for sale 

 in bushel boxes. The less white found in a bunch and the larger the individual 

 sprouts, the better the price that can be obtained. 



