_ November thy 1909 
18s, per case, and will keep from six to 
eight months at temperatures from 30 deg 
to 32 deg. F. ie oh ate ria 
Pracugs, Prums, CuErrizs, &c, 
Peaches.—-Brigg’s Red May, York, 
Early Crawford, Diamond, Late Crawford 
Me Devitt’s Late Cling, Lady Palmerston, 
and Elberta. These peaches have beex 
Successfully stored from 1 to 2months at 
temperatures from 82 deg. to 34 deg. F. 
Plums.—The following can be success- 
fully stored:—Diamond, Coe’s Golden 
Drop, Argelina Burdett, Early Orleans» 
Late Black Orleans Hill End, Grand 
Duke, Green Gage, Pond's Seedling, 
Reine Claude de Bavay, and Japanese.’ 
By rigid attention to quality of fruit 
Providing the best facilities for cool 
Storage, good results may be obtained tor 
4 period of eight to ten weeks. 
ature, 82 deg. F. 
Cherries.—Cherries are quite perish- 
able and can only be stored for short 
Periods, from ten to fourteen days,: at 
temperatures ranging from 32 deg. to 34 
deg, F, 
_ Oranges.—Will keep one to three 
Months. Temperature, 34 deg. F. 
Lemons,—Will keep four months, 
Temperature, 38 deg. F. 
“Grapes —Grapes have stored 
With good results for three months. 
Temperature, 33 deg. to 36deg. F. 
Strawberrics.—These may be succoss- 
fully stored for a period of four weeks, if 
“overed with cotton wool. Teinperature, 
82 deg. 1, 
Currants.— Will keep four to six weeks 
Temperature, 32 deg. to 34deg. F. Red 
Varieties keep better than black or 
White, and should be protected by paper 
“oVering, ; 
Temper- 
been 
Tomatoes (ripe).— Will keep from one 
to two months. Temperature, 42 deg. EF: 
Victorian « Journal of Agriculture.” 
The Preparing of Dried Figs. 
mA Correspondent writing to the 
Agricultural Journal for the Cape of 
aa Hope,” in July, 1907, thus des- 
€s his method of drying figs. 
The figs should be pressed when fully 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. _ 
ripe and spread out, unpeeled, on drying 
trays in the sun, with a slight powdering 
of sulphur. After the third ‘day they 
should be turned daily. When svfficient- 
ly dried (after six to eight days), they 
should te pipped in a boiling solution of 
brine, 1 Jb. of common salt to 10 gallons 
of water.’ Then after being spread out 
in the sun for a few hours, they-are ready 
for packing. ‘A few weeks after submitting 
his sample thus “prepared, a bu er in 
Capetown offered to take 20 tons if he 
could supply then 
The report upon the sample stated that 
all who had that 
was excellent in sense. It 
seen it agreed 
every 
is recommended that the figs should 
be packed in Jay2rs in boxes, with 
a neatly folded lining of white paper. It 
should, however, be bourne in mind that 
only the best figs should be dried. There 
js no greater mistake than to suppose 
that imperfect, inferior fruit will make 
other than seco dor third r.te produce 
when dried. Will not some enterprismg 
person make an experiment of drying fics 
by this method this autumn? The boxes 
should contain 2, 4, 6 or 8 dozen figs. 
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