192 Apple House for Southern Coast. 
To this endit is kept well watered in apple-keeping season; and, to avoid 
mildew or mold, it is also liberally sprinkled with ground sulphur, By day 
doors and windows are mostly kept shut, by night open; this, of course, is 
to exclude the heat and allow free circulation of the cool night air. 
A rather more open house is used in the coast region of 
southern California, by Mr. T. W. Ward, of Carpinteria:— 
It is a slat house made of strips 1x24 inches, put on one inch apart. 
The roof is similarly constructed. There are two passages, on either side of 
which are two shelves, one above the other, z. e., eight in all. The shelves 
are made of slats placed one-half inch apart, with sides a foot high. The 
apples are spread on these shelves a foot or more deep. The floor is made 
of slats, and there are bins on this also. The fruit must receive a thorough 
sprinkling weekly, unless sufficient rain falls. The slats are close enough to 
prevent birds doing damage, and the whole building is raised six inches 
from the ground. 
In the mountain regions arrangements must be made for 
frost-exclusion,—a consideration which does not apply to the 
valley and coast. 
Of course, in selecting apples for storage, all windfalls 
should be rejected. The fruit should be carefully picked and 
handled, without bruising. The advantage of spreading on 
shelves, aside from the free admission of air, is the ease with 
which the fruit can be examined and all decaying specimens 
removed. 
Marketing Apples——With well-grown fruit, from an orchard 
free from insects, or one in which they are absolutely repressed, 
and the apples properly stored for winter and spring sale, there 
is a rich reward for the apple grower. The market is free from 
everything but late pears and citrus fruits, and they cannot re- 
place the apple in popular esteem. Let the fruit be carefully 
selected and graded into firsts and seconds as to size, and let 
the brand get the reputation of covering nothing but sound 
fruit of honest uniformity throughout the package, and in the 
long run the apple grower will not be ashamed to compare his 
returns with those of the grower of other fruits—providing, as 
already intimated, he is growing the right varieties in the right 
place. 
SELECTING VARIETIES. 
For the family orchard there should be a selection of quite 
a number of varieties, ripening in succession, from the earliest 
to the latest. Which are best in the different parts of the State 
can be approximately determined from the tabular statement 
which will follow, and which has been compiled from special 
reports of hundreds of apple growers during 1808. 
The selection of varieties for a commercial orchard is a 
very different proposition. Only a few kinds should be chosen, 
with special reference to their growth and bearing, and the mar- 
kets for which they are intended. 
