Annals of Horticulture. 



An Orange Wrapping Machine. — An apparatus for wrap- 

 ping citrus fruits in tissue paper is said to have been perfected 

 recently. "A 

 carrier moves 

 the wrapper- 

 paper forward 

 to where the 

 oranges are 

 fed. A clamp 

 then presses 

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the paper in neck-like form around the fruit. The clamp and 

 holder are quickly rotated, and by this means the wrapper is 

 twisted around the orange, which is then 

 dropped into a basket at the end of the 

 machine ready for packing." — Confec- 

 tioners 1 Union. 



Maxfield Fruit Car. — (Fig. 28.) A 

 patent fruit car. The particular features 

 "consist essentially in the novel con- 

 struction of the car, whereby the same 

 may be perfectly ventilated, and the fruit 

 in transit preserved in a fresh condition. ' ' 

 — Fruit Trade Journal, August 10. 



Handy Hot-Bed Frame. — (Fig. 29, 

 page 185.) The novel feature of this 

 frame is the use of wagon-box rods for securing the sides to- 

 gether. The frame is then easily taken apart and stored. — 

 M. B. Newbern, in Popular Gardeni?ig, March, 123. 



Wind-tight Ventilator. — (Fig. 30, page 185.) A device 

 used by J. T. Anthony, 

 Chicago, for keeping 

 wind from houses. "The 

 opening in the roof is 

 cased clear around in- 

 side with a strip which 

 projects about an inch 

 above the surface of the 

 roof, and the weather 



strip on the outside is Fig. 28. 



Fig. 



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