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feet and about 3^ inches deep, in which to put away choice apples-, 

 for home use. Such trays will hold just one layer of fruit, and can be 

 piled in vertical piles in the cellar, each succeeding tray being a cover 

 for the one beneath it, as shown in the illustration. The same kind of trays, 

 would no doubt be good for keeping grapes for winter use. This is referred 

 to by our Quebec friend, Mr. Pattison, in his article in this number on 

 " Keeping Grapes." Some have also tried packing apples in dry sand, or in 

 oats, and claim to have had wonderful success. 



PACKAGES FOR GRAPES. 



A great many ingenious devices have been invented for packing grapes 

 attractively for market. The trouble with the twenty and ten-pound 

 baskets so commonly used in the Niagara district is that the fruit on the 

 top is usually too much mashed by the time it reaches the market to sell to 

 advantage. The new protection cover is a great advantage, and does away 

 with this difficulty to a certain extent, but not altogether ; for it is impos- 

 sible to lay the top bunches on evenly. Some handy package is needed 

 which allows the packing to be done from the bottom, so that the upper 



surface will present a nice fresh and even 

 appearance. A great amount of money is 

 paid nowadays by some people for 

 appearance, and it is only fair that, in an 

 honest way, we fruit growers should have 

 a share in the spoil. Some such a box is 

 Fig. 6g.-WooDEN Box USED IN Marketing described by "Traveller," in Popular 

 Grapes. Gardening and is here shown in fig. 69. 



It is a light white, wooden box, having a slide bottom from which to pack, 

 and a little slide in the top, on which was pasted a neatly printed label, 

 showing the kind of grape and the name of the shipper. These boxes may 

 be crated together and so easily handled by the express companies. 



CUTTINGS. 



This is a good time for the amateur fruit grower to increase his stock of 

 currant and gooseberry bushes at a very slight expense. Cuttings may be 

 made from the young wood of six or eight inches in length, and buried in a 

 dry sandy place,*until planting time in the spring, when they will nearly all 

 grow if properly set out. In burying them, care should be taken to place 

 earth and cuttings in alternate layers. Few seem to realize how cheaply 

 such plants may be propagated, for, if they did, less money would be paid 

 to nurserymen for what can be as well grown at home. 



