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out further care or attention, except removing all that 

 appear to be faulty as he brings them into the cellar ; 

 and he thinks it unnecessary to use any particular 

 care in this respect. He had at one time, one hundred 

 and ten bushels thus heaped up in a small cellar, and 

 two or three times each week he gave them a good 

 wetting with fresh water, as much as he thought would 

 well wet the whole of them. The water drains off, 

 through the straw and hurdles, into a well. In this 

 way, he stated that his apples keep well until the 

 period at which he usually disposes of them — the best 

 to make him a good return after Christmas. (Gard. 

 Chron. 1842, 805.) 



Other testimony, conclusive that moisture rather 

 than dryness is essential to the keeping of apples in 

 good order, is afforded by the numerous evidence we 

 have that they keep superiorly if stored under a cover- 

 ing of earth, according to the mode in which potatoes 

 are "hogged." Mr. Marnock, Curator of the Bo- 

 tanic Garden, says, that by putting apples in pits in 

 autumn, retaining them there through the winter, 

 until taken up in March, they still retain the same 

 degree of hardness as when pulled from the trees, 

 which of course was not the case with those kept 

 upon shelves. The following are the sorts which were 

 kept in this way, and their condition when taken out : 

 — The Ribston Pippin rotted one-tenth ; Red-streaks, 

 three-fourths ; Flowery Town, one-sixth ; Royal Rus- 



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