420 The Principles of Fruit-growing. 
the market, but he will likely be able to sceure 
his packages at a lower cost if he gets them 
early in the season; and he will, in any event, 
be sure of his packages in case there should be a 
large demand for them at marketing time. It is 
well to secure the illustrated price-lists of the manu- 
facturers, and to thoroughly canvas the subjects of 
styles and prives some months in advance. 
All packages smaller than a half peck should be 
shipped in erates. It is eustomary to use crates 
with slat sides and an abundance of openings, in 
order to insure complete ventilation; but if the fruits 
ave firm and dry when they are pieked, and are then 
reduced to a lower temperature, they ean be shipped 
in unventilated erates, gencrally with better results 
(page 397). The shriveling and shrinkage of the 
fruits will be less in the tight crates, and decay will 
ordinarily be less also. These crates should he gift 
packages, and made out of ght split stuff, as bas- 
Notrt.—The pictures in Figs. 94-97, pages 418, 419, 422, 428, are shown 
for the purpose of aequainting the reader with some of the leading types 
of fruit packages now in use. 
Fig. 94.—No. 1, common quart berry box; 2, the bottom, in flat; 3, the 
sides, in flat; 4, 5, 7, till baskets: 6, paper basket, set wp; 8, oblong quart 
boxes; 9, 10, metal-topped baskets; 11, bushel basket with slat cover; 12, 
common splint peach basket; 13, same, with cover. 
Fig. 95.—No. 1, veneer peach basket; 2, standard peach basket; 3, vencer 
straight-sided basket; 4, vegetable basket; 5, Californian peaches, wrapped 
in pauper; 6, a frequent result in the market; 7-11, various styles of Cli- 
max baskets; 12, 13, baskets for apple-picking (samo number of apples in 
each, but those in 13 from sprayed trees, those in 12 from untreated trees). 
Fig. 96.—No. 1, Diamond market basket ; 2, 16-pint basket-tray ; 3-9, vari- 
ous styles of erates for herry boxes. 
Fig. 97.—No. 1, crato for Leslie boxes; 2, 4-quart hand-tray ; 3, 24-quart 
erate ; 4, till-basket crate; 5, 6, fruit boxes (holding from }4 to 1 bus.); 7, 
