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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



October, 1911 



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for grapes; and I use shears for cutting the bunches 

 and to remove decayed or bruised grapes from the 

 bunches. These grapes are spread a few inches 

 deep on boards in a cool cellar, where they keep 

 fresh for several weeks. 



Grape juice boiled so it is evaporated about one- 

 half may be canned and used in winter by adding 

 the amount of water desired. Those who grow 

 an abundance of fruits can prepare syrups in the 

 fall to use for fruit drinks in winter. Small fruit 

 presses can be bought for $2.00 or $3.00. 



October is the month when most of the winter 

 apples are picked. There is a right way to pick 

 and store apples. I have seen in the market good 

 varieties of well grown winter apples that I would 

 not want at any price because they were picked 

 green, or were bruised. When conditions permit, 

 winter apples should be left on the trees until fully 

 ripe, or very nearly so. Red apples should be fully 

 colored before picking, and all apples should take 

 on their natural color and tints, for the true flavor 

 comes with the coloring. Apples do not ripen 

 as well as pears when stored, and in fact, the flavor 

 of winter apples improves but little after they are 

 picked. 



To pick from low trees in the fruit garden, 

 nothing is needed but a basket, or pail, and perhaps 

 a step-ladder. The higher the tree, the longer the 

 ladder of course; on long ladders we use a picking 

 bag suspended from the shoulders. There is 

 danger of bruising the apples if they are put in a 

 basket suspended by a hook over a branch or on 

 the ladder. There are some good fruit-pickers on 

 the market that are useful for high trees. Try 

 to get apples stored for winter without the slightest 

 bruising. An apple should never drop, however 

 short the distance, but should always be placed 

 carefully in the receptacle, and the tree should 

 not be injured by breaking or marring its 

 branches. 



As fast as the apples for home use are picked we 

 carry them to the cellar where the windows are all 

 removed, so that there is good cross ventilation, 

 and they are placed carefully a few inches deep in 

 racks or shallow bins. Here they are left until 

 hard freezing weather, when the apples are assorted, 

 and the cellar windows are put in. Apples will not 

 keep well in a cellar with a furnace, unless there 

 is a fruit room partitioned off. The choice and 

 perfect apples we keep until late winter and spring; 

 they require a low temperature and, if practicable, 

 exclusion of light and air. There are several 

 ways of keeping apples, and it matters but little 

 what the method is, if it complies with the above 

 conditions. It is a nice way to wrap fancy dessert 

 apples in paper, as oranges are wrapped, and 

 pack them in a box or barrel and cover tightly, 

 but my experiments have not proved that the 

 apples keep better for being so wrapped. Some 

 pack apples in sawdust, excelsior, etc., for long 

 keeping, and one advantage of this is that they 

 can be kept in a low temperature without 

 freezing. 



There is no method that will give as good results 

 for those who desire apples in late spring as to 

 bury them out-of-doors in a dry corner of the 

 garden. Excavate a pit two or three feet deep, 

 cover the bottom with straw and place the apples 

 on the straw, then cover them with more straw, 

 and shovel on a few inches of soil, rounding up a 

 mound that will partially shed rain; afterward 

 shovel on a foot or so of soil before the ground 

 freezes for winter. I have kept apples in this way, 

 so that when taken out they were as fresh and of 

 as good flavor as when picked. 



Winter pears should be picked about the same 

 time as winter apples; or before the hard freezes. 

 We do not wait for the Anjou, Winter Nelis, and 

 the green-skinned pears to change color, but pick 

 them for winter use when they are fully grown and 

 mature. Unlike most fruits, if winter pears are 

 put away hard and unedible, they will ripen and 

 soften to luscious perfection, especially with as 

 good a variety as the Anjou. Pick them as you do 

 apples, taking care not to bruise them, and store 

 in a cool place in the cellar. It is a good way to 

 pack the sound perfect pears in bran or some dry 

 material. This is said to improve the Keiffer 

 pear, which, without some process of bettering the 

 flavor, is about as good as a raw potato in my 

 opinion. 



New York. W. H. Jenkins. 



