COLLECTING, STORING, AND PACKING VEGETABLES. 569 
salading. Tie in bunches, rinse in clear water | end. Where not less than two hampers are 
before the leaves become dry, storing for two | despatched to a town-house by rail every week, 
or three days if need be, in shallow pans of | a set of four hampers will be required, as there 
water and a cool place. For the market large | is often a delay in getting the empties back. 
bunches are formed and packed in hampers, the | The hamper should be so topped up with lighter 
lids closing down tightly on the contents. vegetables that the lids when closed will hold 
| the contents firmly. If not well filled when 
Hampers of Vegetables.—Large strong | started, the shrinkage that inevitably occurs is 
square hampers, duly shod, and strengthened | bad for the contents. Heavy hampers of vege- 
by iron bands so formed as to be easily fastened | tables ought, where possible, to be sent by 
down by means of a looped rod and padlock, are | express goods train, as by ordinary goods train 
best for the carriageof vegetables. Ordinary oval- | they are liable’to be delivered a day too late, 
shaped, comparatively cheap hampers are neither | and the contents, especially in hot weather, may 
convenient nor durable, and are dearest in the | consequently be spoilt. [w. 1.] 
