GATRERING FBUIT. 



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G-atlieriug. — In a long series of chapters, attention has been given to 

 the_ salient points of fruit cultivation, and it is hoped without any important 

 omission. Yet the subject would be incomplete if no reference were made 

 to gathering and storing fruit. It would be of very little avail to grow good 



FIG. 103.— A USEFUL FRUIT 

 GATHEREE. 



Aj circular loop ofstont wire: a, diameter 

 of loop, i lo 5 inches; 6, straight ends 

 about 3 inches long. 



U, conical hag of netting or calico; c, 

 hanMe; d, bng. 



fruit if it were spoiled after it left the tree. Now fruit is very easily spoiled, 

 and the choicer it is the greater the danger of losing it. There ought not to 

 be any great difficulty in learning to gather fruit properly, because the fruit 

 tells its own story. If fruit is left on the tree until it is quite ripe it usually 



