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rim about one inch in height all round, to prevent the 

 apples tumbling off, about six inches apart, and made 

 to slide in and out for the convenience of sorting. 

 The apples must be placed so as not to touch each 

 other, and rest on the eye ; if left a month in this way 

 without looking at them, and although during that 

 time one or two may have shewn symptoms of decay, 

 the contagion will not spread in the same manner that 

 it does when they are packed in layers with straw in 

 open frames, or exposed to the light without any 

 covering. (Gard. Chron. 1843, 336.) 



We were of opinion, at one time, that dryness was 

 an essential for the long preservation of apples from 

 decay, but later experience and observation has led to 

 a contrary conviction. Apples that have remained, 

 accidentally, in tufts of box edgings, exposed to all the 

 wet and vicissitudes of winter, have been found in the 

 spring following as plump and sound as when they 

 first fell from the tree, whereas those in the store- 

 room were then either shrivelled or entirely decayed. 



Mr. C. Diplock, gardener at Heath Lane Lodge, 

 Twickenham, has made the following observations 

 upon this point : — Apples do not require to be kept 

 so dry and warm as many people imagine ; and if 

 kept very dry, you can never keep apples till January 

 without shrivelling. Mr. Diplock had two casks 

 made air-tight — one filled with apples put in dry 

 sand ; the other filled with apples wrapped separately 



