. The principles of fruit-growing, with applications to practice. Fruit-culture. Grading the Fruit 385 the same may be true of tree-fruits that have been well grown and rigorously thinned. In most cases, however, tree-fruits are made into three grades, the third grade being known as culls. Persons who sort their fruit as carefully as our definition requires will do well to desig- nate the first grade by some spe- cial name or mark, as "Selected," "First Choice," and the hke, to distin- guish it from the common type of so- called first-class fruit. In such thorough sorting,
. The principles of fruit-growing, with applications to practice. Fruit-culture. Grading the Fruit 385 the same may be true of tree-fruits that have been well grown and rigorously thinned. In most cases, however, tree-fruits are made into three grades, the third grade being known as culls. Persons who sort their fruit as carefully as our definition requires will do well to desig- nate the first grade by some spe- cial name or mark, as "Selected," "First Choice," and the hke, to distin- guish it from the common type of so- called first-class fruit. In such thorough sorting, four grades are often necessary properly to present the fruit to the various tj^jes of con- sumers. It should be remarked, how- ever, that the better the fruit as it hangs on the tree or vine, the fewer will be the grades in the packing-house. The packing of fruit, therefore, comprises two rather distinct elements,—^the sorting or grading (which has now been considered), and the placing of the fruits in the final receptacles, or packing proper, to which we now Fig. 149. Various types of fruit Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York : Macmillan
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