GARDENING For ALL. 137 
All who grow fruit may dry fruit also if they choose. 
Evaporating machines may be obtained at prices varying 
from £6 tos. od. to £150, with a proportionate number of 
drying trays ot from eight to two hundred and thirty-eight ; 
the latter with a drying capacity of 3,ooolbs. (or about 
forty-five pots) of fresh apples in twenty-four hours. 
Some attention has been given in this country to the 
subject of drying fruit and vegetables for several years, but 
much more remains to be done. It is a subject which must, 
sooner or later, receive a large share of attention—especially 
of market gardeners and farmers, also some attention from 
gentlemen’s gardeners, and caterers for large establishments 
such as hotels, boarding houses, public schools, hospitals, 
asylums, &c. The apparatus is most simple in construction 
and easy to manage, and the whole process of successful 
drying of fruit and vegetables, by means of the ‘“‘ American ” 
evaporator, may be carried out by any man or woman of 
ordinary intelligence. 
American Evaporator, No. 2 
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