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TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND 



with paper three or four times double, to exclude the air and 

 froft as much as poflible. Every different fort of fruit fhould 

 be packed feparately ; and it will be proper to fix a label to 

 each bafket or hamper, with the name of the fruit that it 

 contains, and the time of its being fit for ufe. 



But the beft way of keeping fruit is, to pack it in glazed 

 earthen jars. The Pears or Apples mult be feparately 

 wrapped up in foft paper, then put a little well dried bran in 

 the bottom of the jar, and over the bran a layer of fruit; then 

 a little more bran to fill up the interftices between the fruit, and 

 to cover it; and fo on, a layer of fruit and of bran alternately, 

 till the jar be full; then fhake it gently, which will make the 

 fruit and bran fink a little ; fill up the vacancy at top with 

 more bran, and lay feme paper over it, covering the top with a 

 piece of bladder, to exclude the air ; then put on the top or 

 cover of the jar, obferving that it fits as clofely as poflible. 

 Thefe jars lhould be kept in a room where you can have a 

 .fire in wet or damp weather. 



Of Packing Fruit for Carriage. 



If fruit be to be fent to any considerable diftance, great care 

 fhould be taken in packing it : which fhould not be in baf- 

 kets, as they are liable to be bruifed among heavy luggage, 

 and the fruit, of courfe, will be injured. I would, therefore, 

 recommend boxes made of ftrong deal, of different fizes 

 according to the quantity of fruit to be packed. The fol- 

 lowing are the dimenfions of the boxes in which we fend fruit 

 by the Coach to Windfor and Weymouth, for the ufe of his 

 Majefty and the Royal family : viz. 



The 



