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SUNSET SEED AND PLANT COMPANY 
A Few Hints 
As to the Method of Packing Green Fruit for Eastern Shipment. 
To many fruit growers, the packing of fruit for eastern shipment is something new. We 
will endeavor to give a few hints as to how this should be done. One of the reasons why fruit 
often arrives in the east in "poor condition" is that it is improperly packed. 
The fruit first ready to ship east is the cherry. Cherries should be picked from the trees 
with the stems on and then placed carefully in a bucket, being handled as though they were eggs. 
The fruit is then packed in boxes with covers on and bottoms removed. The top layer is packed 
first with cherries face down, that is, with the stems upward. The remainder is then packed 
without regard to position. The bottom of the box is then nailed on. Exert the utmost care 
that no bruised or stemless cherries are packed in the box, as the presence of one bad cherry 
may cause all the contents of the box to "open up" in the east in mouldy or rotten condition. 
This latter is true of all fruits. Dimensions of proper sized box are: 19 inches long, 2 inches 
deep, gVi inches wide. Weight, 12 lbs. 
Apricots and plums are packed in baskets in layers separated by paper. The baskets are 
placed in crates containing four baskets each. Dimensions of crates: 17 inches long, inches 
deep, IS inches wide; weight from 20 to 25 lbs. 
Peaches are wrapped separately in paper and packed in boxes of following dimensions: iS}i 
inches long, 4}^ inches deep, io}i inches wide; weight, 20 lbs. Patent carriers are sometimes 
used, which much resemble cases in which eggs are shipped. 
Pears are also wrapped separately in paper and packed in boxes iSj^ inches long, 81^ 
inches deep, 12 inches wide; and weighing 40 to 45 lbs. The box is packed considerably higher 
than the sides and the bottom then nailed on by means of a press adapted to this purpose. 
Grapes are packed in much the same manner as plums. 
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A few suggestions 1 
A caution to tree planters 2 
A few hints— packing fruit 
for East f 
Apples 3 
Apricots ^2 
Almonds 14 
Blackberries 25 
Books to read, good 29 
Crab Apples ^ 
Cherries ° 
Chestnuts 1° 
Currants V V 
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Caution to tree planters 2 
Dewberries ^5 
Eastern 8hipment,pack fruit for 32 
Figs ]l 
Filberts 1° 
Freight rates 29 
INDEX 
Page. 
Fruit tree freight rates 1:9 
Fruit packing for East. .... . 32 
Farmers, of interest to. {back' cover 
Grapes 23 
Gooseberries 24 
Good books to read 5i9 
Hints — packing fruit for East. 32 
Interest to farmers, of. {back" cover 
Japanese Walnut 17 
Japanese Varieties of Oranges 21 
Japanese Wineberry 29 
Lemons 21 
Limes 21 
Loquats 22 
Logan Berry 28 
Miscellaneous fruits 29 
Mulberries 23 
Methods of packing fruit for 
East 32 
Nectarines 13 
Nut-bearing trees 14 
Olives 18 
Page. 
Olives, Novelty: "The Queen" 20 
Oranges 20 
Onions (between strawberries). 26 
Pears 4 
Plums 7 
Prunes 9 
Peaches 10 
Pecan Nut 17 
Pistachio Nut 17 
Persimmons 22 
Pomegranates 29 
Packing fruit for East 32 
Planters, tree ; a caution to... 2 
Quinces 13 
Easpberries 26 
Bates freight 29 
Read, good books to 29 
Small fruits 24 
Suggestions, a few I 
Strawberries 26 
Tree planters, a caution to . . . 2 
Wineberry, Japanese 29 
Walnuts 16 
