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Export Fruit Packages, Etc., in British Columbia 
Inside Measurements. 
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Average 
Size of Box, etc., Inches Weight Remarks 
(Net) 
Apples.......| 10x11 x 20.................. 41 Ib. 
Crab Apples. .| 10x 11 x 20 (apple)........... 50 Ib.| The half apple box is also used on 
the Lower Mainland. 
1814 x 11 x 84% (pear)......... 40 Ib.| As used in Upper Country; half 
pear box and peach box (20 Ib.) 
also sometimes used. 
Pears........ 18lgxl1x8l4...... leaeeeeae 46-48 Ib. 
Peaches...... 1814 x 11384 x4............... 17-21 Ib. 
1814 x 1134 x 44g. lence, 
1844 x 11384 x 4%... lees 
Plums........ 158 x 1584 x 444............. 20-22 lb.| 4-basket crate. 
PYuneS....... [eee e cece cece tence ee eee ens 20-25 lb.| Shipped largely in peach boxes. 
Apricots..... 1534 x 1534 x 414............. 19-20 Ib.| 4 basket crate. 
Cherries..... 1814 x9 x214........... 60. 844-9 Ib.; Sour cherries (4-basket crate), 
equals 16-18 lb. Sour cherries 
(special pack), equals 24 lb. 
Raspberries. .| 2-5 quart carton (24 to 1 crate); 
size of carton, 544 x 54¢ x1.. 14 lb.| Size of crate, 1634 x 2344 x 514. 
Strawberries.| 4-5 quart carton (24 to 1 crate); 
size of carton, 574x514 x8.. 24 lb.| Size of crate, 1634 x 2314 x 634. 
Loganberries.| 2-5 quart carton (24 to 1 crate) 16 lb. 
Currants... 00)... cece eee ees ee eee As for strawberries. 
Grapes....... 6-quart basket (approximately|)........ Six 6-quart baskets reckoned as 
100 lb. by the Express Co. 
Rhubarb..... 20 x 1534 x 734... eee 40 lb. 
Cantaloupes..| 12 x 1114 x 20144........ . 02. eee e eee 
Tomatoes....| 1814 x 1134 x5............... 23 lb 
Cabbage..... 25x23 x18... cece cele eee eee 
Lettuce...... 2814 x16 x12............. 2. fee eee 
Horticulture in Nova Scotia 
The horticultural industry of Nova 
Scotia is generally supposed to be carried 
on chiefly in a small section of the west- 
ern part of the Province. While it is true 
that the present production of orchard 
fruits is largely confined to the Annapolis, 
Cornwallis and adjacent valleys, there are 
many other parts of the Province where 
these fruits can be grown, and where 
small fruits and market garden crops can 
be as successfully grown as in the so- 
called orchard district. The nearness of 
many of these places to mining towns and 
manufacturing centers gives them the 
advantage of a local market where fresh 
garden products find a ready sale at good 
prices. In such localities intensive meth- 
ods on small areas often bring surpris- 
ingly large profits. Strawberries and bush 
fruits, asparagus, beans, celery, lettuce, 
rhubarb, peas, tomatoes, roots and early 
potatoes are some of the crops which 
have been found profitable in this kind 
of farming. It is probable that a history 
of horticulture written for the Province 
a quarter of a century or more hence will 
have to include a large reference to this 
industry in these other counties. But, in 
the meantime, fruit growing is developed 
to such a greater extent in the Annapolis 
valley that these articles, more especially 
insofar as they are historical, apply 
largely to this part of the Province. If, 
however, the same principles which have 
made fruit growing in Kings and ad- 
joining counties successful were applied 
in the other counties of the Province, the 
industry would become much more ex- 
tensive than at present. The following 
articles are accordingly commended to all 
citizens of Nova Scotia, whether living 
