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SMALL FRUIT CULTURIST. 



glue^ they can bo sent to distant growers, in the shape of 

 flats, to be made np by children at odd times during the 

 winter. The flats are scored ready for folding np, and as 

 the wood bends at the joint without breaking, a small 



girl will learn in five min- 

 utes how to put them to- 

 gether. Many hundred box- 

 es thus packed as flats can 

 be got into a small com- 

 pass, and at trifling cost of 

 freight.'^ 



Square Chip ISasl^et. 



Figure IIG. Here we have 

 an improYcment on the 

 Fig. 116.— SQUARE CHIP BASKET, commou Jcrscy baskct. The 

 slats are reversed, the wide one passing around the basket, 

 and the small ones forming the uprights, thereby giving 

 a comparatively smooth surface, allowing the baskets to 

 be lifted out or put back into place in the crates, without 

 catching upon those adjoining, and upsetting them, as is 

 often the case with the common one. These baskets are 

 made square, consequently packed very closely together, 

 leaving no vacant spaces between them. An excellent 

 basket for Easpberries. 



i^otlfiic IVce Friait 15ox. 



This box is intended to be given 

 away with the fruit. They are of 

 an octagon shape, as shown in ' 

 figure 117, made of veneer, andj 

 can be sent in flats and put to- 

 gether by the fruit grower, thus 

 saving much expense in trans- 

 portation. The material, all ready to be put together, 

 costs ten dollars per thousand. 



Fig. llT.—aOTHIC FEBE 

 FRUIT BOX. 



