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the day 

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 'tis better, 

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 slat bot- 

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 ad always 

 [or having 

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ouldy if i^ 

 baskets is, 



jether only 

 >rience the 

 Lid not ship 

 thus pass- 



ing all through fho ^rate between and under the baskets, 

 and preventing any heating. The objection to the square, 

 tight, gilt box is, that they lit so closely together that the 

 air does not have a tree circulation, and the fruit spoils 

 quickly. We have had blackberries mould and spoil in a 

 single night in these tight square boxes, and believe it our 

 duty here to condemn them, although we had before thought 

 lavorably of them. They ivUl not answer in hot, damp 

 weather, while baskets packed in slatted crates, will carry 

 fruit nicely and not heat it. As to the 



SIZE OF SHIPPING ORATES, FOR CHERRIES AND 



SMALL FRUIT, 



there is a dilTerance of opinion. It has always been our 

 experience, however, that a crate holding forty-five to sixty 

 quarts was best, as such requires two persons to load and 

 unload, and are therefore not so liable to be thrown about as 

 a smaller one that one can handle. Another important point 

 with cases is to have them made shallow — not so high as 

 they are broad — for if not made so they are more likely to 

 get placed on the side by careless express messengers, and 

 the fruit nearly ruined thereby. Our cases for square 

 quart baskets are made to hold five one way and three the 

 other, making fifteen in each layer, and we make them to 

 hold three layers, having the slat division between each 

 layer. 



PACKING OF TREES NECESSARY. 



(RKlil IRK IT IROM Tlti; DKAI.KR, " 1. . i.' . BaKRY.") 



Pacliing. — Persons who are ignorant of the structure of 

 trees, never appreciate the importance of packing ; and 

 that is the reason why so many trees are every year des- 

 troyed by exposure. It is not uncommom, in this part of 

 the country, to see aj^ple trees loaded on hayracks, like so 

 much ])rush, without a particle of covering on any part of 

 them, to travel a journey of one or two weeks in this con- 

 dition. Of course it is utterly impossible that such trees can 

 live or thrive ; and yet the persons who thus conduct their 

 nursery operations, are doing the most profitable business. 

 Such practices are not only dishonest, but highly injurious 

 and disreputable to the trade ; and it is by no means fair 

 to class such peoi^lc amongst respectable and honorable 

 nurserymen. ... 



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